Tag: Cards

Valentine Cards: Fall in Love with Foiling

Want to add some shimmer to your mixed-media Valentine cards? Try foiling! In this article from our January/February 2016 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, artist Diana Trout shares easy ways to add foil to handmade cards. You can also use these techniques in other mixed-media paper art projects: journal pages, collage—the possibilities are endless. Foiled Again…

black, white, read all over ornament challenge due July 11, 2014

My Frida Kahlo ornament can be used year round as it includes various drawings that I have did of Frida Kahlo throughout her lifetime.  I trimmed down on of my art exhibition postcard invitations to the proper size, then added color red heart made from silky ribbon.  I, also, added a red ribbon, recycled, to hang…

Be my VFF!

I wanted to design a card that could be given to gal pals without having to go in to a long liturgy of prose etc.  A card that could say simply that a friend was appreciated and loved. So, after going through several books for inspiration, I came up with the idea of something simple…

Handmade Flag Book – Maria’s Cards – Cover

I have a friend who sends me handmade cards on a rather regular basis. I decided to honor her with a little flag book containing some of her cards. Her favorite color is pink, so I just had to create a pink book with a pink ribbon closure. I used a 3-D sticker on the…

Distressed Valentines

I made up a batch of these for my Etsy shop.  They have a textured polymerclay cover that was painted with acrylics, watercolor paper on the inside, and felt on the back to make them a bit more sturdy.    For more info, you can check out my Flickr photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/ispywithmycraftyeyes/.  

golden

A mixed media encaustic print that highlights the addition of tissue paper to encaustic mediums.

ATC (Artist Trading Card)

A 2½" x 3½" piece of art backed with felt or a firmer backing such as cardboard. Artists often use them for business cards and/or trade them for fun. ATCs may be made out of virtually anything, including fabric, as seen in this felting tutorial.