Madly Making Bookmarks

 

Stamp by Eureka

Pencil Crayons

 

Soon I'll be putting them in the books on the shelf of my local library....



Spritzed Artist Trading Cards

Stamp by Eureka

Stamp by Hero Arts

While putting away some Gelli Prints, I came across some spritzed paper and decided I had to do something with it.  I made a few artist trading cards and used some much loved stamps at the same time.

The background paper was actually waste paper used to protect my desk from over-spray, but I thought it was too yummy to discard.  After stamping with black ink I added a bit of colour to each image with pencil crayon.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Cards for my hubby and my mom

Random Backgrounds - Part 2

I used more random backgrounds to make ATC's to swap at the Vancouver Artist Trading Card Group:

Stamps by Tim Holtz and I Brake for Stamps

Stamps by Hero Arts, Paper Bag Studios, and Lazerwerx

Stamps by Hero Arts and Judi-Kins

Stamps by PSX and Eureka

Watercolour Practise

I've been practising my watercolour technique thanks to a book by Claudia Nice - Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolour.  I'm not drawing like Claudia does so well, I'm using rubber stamps.  I have enhanced them after colouring with ink.

Stamp by Eureka

Stamp by Sparkle N Sprinkle

Orange Rainforest Dreams

The July design prompts for the Vancouver Artist Trading Card group were orange, rainforest, and dreams.  Here are a couple of my ATC's:

Ferns

This  fern background stamp from Eureka was coloured with Prismacolor pencil crayons on kraft cardstock.  I love the delicate look of ferns, and I don't think these ones have to be relegated to the background!

Tree of Love

This Eureka stamp was embossed onto an alcohol ink background.  I love this image!