The end is in sight. The 365 3 x 3” artcards I’m making this year as part of the #365somethings2018
project are almost done, but there is one last way of making them that I wanted to share here as my
final project this year for Stencilgirl®Products.
Whenever I’m working in my studio, I do so on a layer of newsprint sheets that I use to clean my
stencils, capture the spray paint that doesn’t quite hit the page I’m working on, roll off the excess
paint on my brayers, try out if I have enough ink on my stamps etc. Eventually the top newsprint
sheet is completely covered and I remove it to reveal a fresh one.
The removed sheet (I refer to it as underpaper) very often looks better than anything I have created
purposefully, partly because true randomness is very hard to create and partly because I’m far less
precious about it. The last time I removed a sheet it struck me how it would make great art cards
and because the newsprint is very thin, I simply adhered pieces of it onto cards.
I began to wonder if I could make such randomness intentionally (a real oxymoron!). And this final project for 9 more cards (in fact I made quite a few more in the process too) is the result.
You can find a full step-by-step tutorial for this final set of cards on the Stencilgirl®Talk website.
Enjoy the festive season, whatever you may be celebrating! And don't forget to have some art time just for you!
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