Published

 

I'm cleaning out some old magazines, including those I was published in.  I'm trying to decide whether digitizing is enough or whether I should create a portfolio of originals...

Any thoughts?

Snow on Trees

Artist Trading Card, heat embossed on gelli print

Stamp by All Night Media

Your Kindness is Much Appreciated

 

Stamp by All Night Media

 

These cards were inspired by my sister, Dianne, who makes lovely stamped cards.  She does projects that take hours of painting or coloring; I like quick stamping.  I also put my own twist on her design by doing some calligraphy.

 

Stamp by Magenta

 

These cards measure 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".  I did the lettering first, on 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card stock pieces (1/4 letter size).  After lettering, I cut them down to 5" x 3 3/4".  This way, I was able to center the lettering by cutting the sides with excess white space.

 

After cutting, I stamped around the edges, and using my Perfect Layers tool I added a 1/8"mat.  Then I mounted them on the cards.



Update on the Calligraphy Journal

I finished another page in my Calligraphy Journal over the weekend.  I'm not 100% happy with the journal or the paper.  The pages fall out of the glued pad too easily and the paper is a little bit thin so certain stamp inks bleed through.  Yes, it is really just a pad of paper if I could only admit it.  So, I should say that I'm working on loose pages at the moment.  The advantage of this, however, is that if I find paper I like better I can switch over and bind it all together when it is finished!

Anything Goes

The design challenge this week at Art With No Boundaries is "Anything Goes". The inchies on this Artist Trading Card are all about vessels, and they are created with stamps from Inkadinkado and All Night Media.

Vessels

Go over to Art With No Boundaries and have a look - anything goes!

Imagine

 

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.  ~Lewis Carroll