Friday, 28 September 2012

A Postcard for Artful Times

Thanks for the lovely entries last week, once again we did enjoy visiting your blogs and hope you are enjoying the topics we have chosen so far.

Sam's choice again and this time she challenges you (and us) to make a postcard with Alphabet letters/script on it.

Not long ago I had sent some atc's off to different places in an atc swap I was in.  One of mine went to Finland and when I got one back from the lady there she had also included some pages with Finnish on, some lace (which I didn't use on this) and a piece of lovely card with rectangles on it.

Now at the same time I had come across this free stamp from a magazine that I had omitted to remove and it reminded me a little of the art dolls I had seen this lady make.  So here is my postcard for the challenge - a tribute to Tuire (Flemming), a delightful lady I met on WOYWW and with whom I had an atc swap.


First of all I cut myself a 6" x 4" piece of cardstock then a tiny piece off the rectangle card so that I could still keep the writing on the back of the left over piece.  Next  I began using my Distress Inks in shades of brown to cover the white card and let little bits overlap onto the  fancy card.  

I had already torn a tiny strip of paper with the writing on it and this was then adhered to the card and it got the treatment too with the Distress Inks.  Then a quick stamp of the lady's face, stick some letters on (that are relevant - see the "T" for Tuire) and cut out the stamp and postmark from the envelope that I received my atc in and it was almost ready.  Just a quick squirt of Glossy Accents on a couple of the Grungeboard letters and we were all finished.

Now what will you do for your postcard - you will enter our challenge won't you?  We'd love to visit you and leave a comment - btw - we love comments too.