I managed to make six cards from yesterday's masterboard.
Again, it was just a matter of putting the pieces of the masterboard against various colours of card. Red was the first colour that clicked for me:
Then burgundy:
I came round to the teal last:
A close up of this last one:
All of the cards have 'Happy New Year' penned inside using gold ink and a calligraphy nib:
And one more snap of them all together:
Happy New Year!
I've been enthralled by the white fairy lights on trees and windows at this time of year, and so I decided to try my hand at a masterboard of whites and golds. I really enjoyed the last one and have been itching to do another.
I started with white and buff acrylic paint pulled with an old credit card across a page of A4 prepped with gesso. I then did a second layer with white and metallic gold acrylic paint. It would have been good to snap a photo at this stage, but it did not occur to me until later... 😒
I then mixed a bit of golden yellow with white to make cream, and stencilled very small cream snowflakes over the gold bits. I then stencilled very small acrylic metallic gold snowflakes over the white bits. Finally, I used individual letters and numbers to stamp '1 Jan' and '2018'. I also have a stamp that is slightly suggestive of a firework, so I also randomly stamped that all over as well.
These close-ups show a bit more detail:
Next, the tough part . . . cutting it all up:
This next photo show how the gold paint reflects the light:
So now to turn these into New Year cards ...
(...which are now posted here).
