Fragile Paper Postcards

Over the past fortnight on the PaperArtsy blog we have had the theme of Fragile papers. tonight is my turn to play and I have used fragile papers to make paper-fabric, I turned this into postcards.

These cards feature sneaky peeks of new stamps... shhhh...

Pop over to the  PaperArtsy blog where you can see all the step out photos of my process. If you read right to the bottom you wil find out how you can win one of my postcards. 

Darcy. x

Postcards

I recently made these for my friend Dede. She has fabulous weekly shows on ustream, you can follow her show HERE...

I started by cutting 6 postcard sized pieces, and brushed on a little craft paint.

I then added some stamping and stencilling..

next I knocked back the colour with white acrylic, then added more stencilling.

I took some plastic dividers from an expanding file that had fallen apart, drew some faces onto it and cut them out...or rather burned them out using the tip of a soldering iron. If you use this method remember to do it over a glass cutting board and not a regular mat.

I taped my plastic stencil over the postcard and added black and red paint. 

Here they all are, do you recognize them?

Next I added washi tape and wall filler which was pushed through stencils to add texture. 

Once the wall filler was dry I painted it, then I dripped on some pearlescent acrylic ink....and finally added some text..

I added a stamped image of a postcard to the reverse of each one, finishing it with some splatters of ink and some faux coffee stains achieved by dipping a lid into brown ink. 

hope you like them...

Products used... click thru to follow the links 

Artiste Acrylic paint

Washi Tape

Stencils

JoFy Stamps

Stampsmith Stamps

Do you have postcards? do you have a lot of postcards?

I do, it would appear to be impossible for me to go to the cinema without picking up the free postcards. I have been doing this for ages, without any real purpose. Though they are handy for writing a quick note on to pop in with parcels.

This is half my stack...I recently gave the other half away.



I decided i wanted to do something with them, so I picked this one out....ready to alter. My thought was that i could alter lots of them and then collage them together....or not...

So i firstly covered it with gesso, which i then wiped off in sections to reveal the flag behind. I inked and sprayed over the gesso. I cut out a dress-up dolly and stuck her on, and gave her some gold leaf wings. At this point i decided to pop this one in a parcel going to USA, so I added USA number plates to the top and bottom.



I added distress stickles, and text. i coloured the dress with prismas.



I doodled and stuck on a flower. It's fairly grungy and messy and was so much fun to mess around with, it is by no means a pretty piece of art lol

I finished off by rubbing gold wax over the edges. then off it went in its parcel.



So now, what to do with the rest of the postcards...