Altered Art Playing Card Challenge - Week 8

Week 8 of the Altered Art Playing Card Challenge and I'm still actively participating! That's a good sign, I think. Perhaps this is actually a project that I will finish. I'm horrible at finishing things... or I pick up a new hobby and go at it non-stop for a while and completely stop. I like doing these cards though because they're small and relatively easy to finish in one sitting.

Anyway, this first card is another I finished a couple weeks ago, but it fits pretty well with the theme of the week. Also, it's one of my favorites so far. The background is acrylic paint, the heart I cut out of cardstock and then painted with metallic acrylic. The road is lined with white gel pen.

On the second one I used a Recollections marker for the sky. Nothing fancy. The buildings I cut out of cardstock, added windows with a silver gel pen, and windows/doors on the houses with a black micron.

Altered Art Playing Card Challenge - Week 7

This last week was a wee bit crazy so I'll be honest... I completed these cards a couple weeks ago. I got a little ahead of myself and figured I'd save them for a week without time or inspiration. Since they were done early I didn't use any of the cool techniques that Claudia used for week 7 - these are much more simple and not sea themed at all.

Both cards have the mesh in the background and both cards used alcohol inks for the main colors. I added detail in acrylic paint, micron pen, and white gel pen. Nothing too complicated but I think they turned out alright.

Altered Art Playing Card Challenge - Week 6

This week Claudine did some really cute Halloween cards - here. But... I'm still sticking with my travel theme and I'm really bad at doing holidays. So... here are my cards for week 6.

This first one has the mesh background, I used alcohol inks for the main colors, then touches of acrylic, a sharpie, and a silver gel pen.

I LOVE this second one. I am generally a perfectionist when it comes to art and I had to let go of a lot over the last couple years to move on artistically. Once I accepted that I am just not the type to paint something that looks exactly real, it made things a lot easier and I'm enjoying the results. The background is acrylic paint and I just kind of smudged the darker green trees with a brush, the car was a stamp from Michaels with touch-up from a white gel pen and a black micron pen. The driver is a random sticker that I had in my collection.

Altered Art Playing Card Challenge - Week 5

On to week 5 of the Altered Art Playing Card Challenge from Claudine's Art Corner. Since a lot of these materials are new to me I've had a few backgrounds not quite work out how I'd like. When that happens I set the cards off to the side and do another... then I just leave them in my workspace to stare at them until something pops into my head.

When doing the first step with gesso, I added some mesh-tulle-like stuff onto about 10 of my cards. The week where alcohol inks were used for the background I added some to one of those cards and it turned out really cool, but it wasn't what I wanted for that week. So this is mesh, alcohol inks, acrylic paint, an old world map stamp, sharpie, and white gel pen.

This second card just started out with a blue acrylic background because I accidentally pushed too much paint out when I was working on something else. Then I added some fluffy cloud-ish swirls. The words are torn out of a dictionary and I dyed the paper blue with alcohol ink - it was a total experiment and to be honest I was surprised at how well it worked. I really like the alcohol inks because they don't warp paper like water based products.