Another Set of Art Cards

How many methods are there to put art on a 3 x 3" card? I have come to the conclusion that the answer is endless! They all look totally different depending on what order you do things such as stamping, collage, stencilling, gelli printing, and what stamps, stencils, papers and images you use. Every card looks completely unique, even if you use the same order and materials. So I make no excuses for sharing yet another method with you here and again these nine cards have been made as monthly project in my capacity of Guest Designer for Stencilgirl Products®.

That means you get a full step-by-step tutorial for this set of 9 cards as well as a list of the Stencilgirl® stencils I used in the making of them. You can find it here on the Stencilgirl®Talk website.

Just a reminder that these cards will become part of my #365somethings2018 project on Instagram where I post a daily card each day this year. We are over the half way point with the cards (and the year!) and I still have lots more ideas!

Gratitude

 Thanksgiving was the prompt on Joggles Art Journal Adventures this week and this spread in an A5 sized journal was finished yesterday on Thanksgiving Day. I found a quotation I liked by Brother David Steindl-Rast and illustrated that in "happy" colours. For the background I used the L402 Verdant Moon stencil by Stencilgirl Products

Once happy with how it looked the vintage text was added to form a bench the figure (from Flow Magazine) could sit on. The butterfly came from a wrapping paper and I found the flower themed postage stamps in my stash. At the moment most of my collage materials are not where they should be as we are painting my "paint" studio and I'm a bit restricted by what I can find. But the various elements worked well together.

 The text of the quotation was partly cut from magazines and partly stamped onto vintage paper using a variety of alphabet stamp sets. The pages were framed with a black Stabilo All pencil and a wiggly line.

Finally here is a link to a video by David Steindl-Rast which illustrates what I wanted to convey with this spread so much better in both images and words.