Whimsey Girls

I finally this week got around to playing with an idea that I'd had in my head for some time....

 

I made this ATC a couple of weeks ago for the WOYWW 4 anniversary swap... to make it I inked old book pages with Distress Inks and drew a design on, then painted in the image with gesso, to mask out the background, and when dry I coloured it in with Prismacolour pencils. I really liked the effect and had an idea in my head to do the same technique with my own version of whimsy girl images.

 

And so I did! :)

 

 

I made this set of 5 ATCs using the same technique. I love the vibrant colours of the background, it seems to make the images really pop.

 

I liked how these cards came out so much that I decided to also turn them into digi stamps. :)

 

So the 5 whimsy girl images, complete with a text background, are now available as Alipeeps' Art digi stamps from the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet. :)

 

 

 

 

Fun with Flourishes...

I was immediately inspired by the new challenge theme at Fun With ATCs....

 

The theme is Flourishes and for some reason I immediately thought of using a flourish to depict flowing hair:

 

 

I made the background by blending Distress Inks and flicking with water and I hand drew the face onto copier paper and coloured it in with Prismacolour pencils. I stamped the flourish (from the Everything Eleanor stamp set from Stampin' Up!) a couple of times using black Archival ink and then glued the face in place and, to finish, stamped parts of the flourish over the face.