Once I got done with the farmer's market, a quick stop by work, a wonderful hour in Barnes & Noble, and a quick shopping spree in Michaels, I came home and made 4 more postcards and an ATC.
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Gelli print phone book page background, stamps, torn book page arrows, stamped gesso circles, doodles, and a couple words. The 3 stamped words and the pen nibs have been stamped on this card for months but then I got stuck on what else to do so it sat. When I was choosing backgrounds to work on, I saw it and decided to figure it out. And I just realized that's Martha Stewart's phrase. Ah, well. |
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Paint over gesso over cereal box. The strip of color is the edge left over when I did the packing tape gelli plate thing. Worked good, just haven't blogged about it yet. The picture is from a cruise brochure. And I put white circles on everything today. |
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This is a bathing beauties postcard for the swap on creative souls. Image and text from the January 7, 1946 issue of LIFE mag. They used fake tan even back then. But in a black and white magazine, some of the effectiveness of the ad is lost. |
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Gel medium transfer of a cabinet card printed onto a gelli printed book page, then glued to this gelli print postcard. A few white circles, a couple postage stamps, an apropos quote. Love the colors in this one. |
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This is actually an ATC, 2.5" x 3.5". The creative souls swap theme was... circles. I kept it simple, doing some (more) white circles, a few cut from book pages and a few words. The background was made using the Vaseline resist technique and is a bit more interesting in person than it scanned. |
Wow! What a great productive day!
ReplyDeleteDid you know Martha Stewart and I share the same birthday (day)? It's a good thing! hahahahaha
Love your work. And saying "a good thing" was around before Martha co-oped it. Thanks for showing us everything -- inspiring.
ReplyDeleteYum on that first card, love it, and Jane Mansfield and her dessert tan, LOL xox
ReplyDeleteI really like your gel medium card - I've yet to try that...somehow it intimidates me. I love how the words show through the transfer....
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