A few weeks ago I received a
recommendation by Amazon telling me I might be interested in blank postcard
packs. How did they know? At times I strongly suspect they know me better than
I know myself. I immediately felt an urgent need for postcards and the very
next day they were mine. Then of course I had to justify this completely
frivolous buy to myself and decided to make these postcards my next project for
StencilGirl® Products. Once this project is posted here today, the postcards
will be winging their way across the globe, using a website called
Postcrossing.com. Check it out if you’re
interested. It’s free and a chance to receive and send postcards all over the
world.
Here is how I made my postcards:
1. Buy
a pack of 4 x 6” blank postcards.
2. Brayer
on a mix of colors of acrylic paint to an 8 x 10” gel plate and put as many
postcards on top as you can manage, taking entire or part prints. Repeat till the cards are full of
color. Let the cards dry thoroughly. In fact do this drying after every step.
It’s a good way to avoid a color mess.
3. Again
using the same colors as in step 2, add acrylic paint to your gel plate, put
the large stencil from the December 2019
StencilClub on top of the plate and take prints with the postcards by
putting them randomly on top. Again do this till all the cards have patterns
all over them. Let dry.
4. Using
the medium stencil from the December 2019
StencilClub and a cosmetic wedge, stencil patterns on the cards using
titanium white acrylic paint.
5. Repeat
step 4 but this time using the smallest stencil of the December 2019 StencilClub and black acrylic paint.
6. Using
selected areas from the large stencil (see step 3) and the technique used in
step 4 add more patterns to the cards with contrasting colors of acrylic
paints. I used red with the circles patters, bright blue with the stripes and
light blue with the plus signs.
7. Using
the flower shape stencil from Deconstructed Bold Lily Mask and Stencil add petals to the postcards as
shown, using a palette knife and Pixie Pink Silks Acrylic Glaze.
8. Using
both the stencil and the mask from Deconstructed Bold Lily Mask and Stencil used in step 7 add black patterning to the pink flowers with black acrylic
paint and a cosmetic wedge.
9. Outline
the pink flowers with a black permanent marker and outline the black patterns
of the flowers with a white permanent marker.
10. Use
the black and white markers to outline other patterns on the cards.
11. Edge
the cards with a permanent black ink pad.
12. Glue
on vintage text after edging it with black as in step 11.
13. Finally
using the medium stencil from the December 2019
StencilClub spray on some gold sparkle with Perfect Pearls Mists
color Sunflower Sparkle.
It is great to see the progression of the printed post cards from color to finished product. I love the way they relate to each other but each one is still unique. The additional layers and knowing what to put next is what shows how talented Frieda is. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love these - and I love the idea of postcrossing.com - thanks for sharing that info!
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