Tuesday, June 21, 2016

We're all in the same boat

Hi, Nikki here today with a fun 4" x 6" postcard.

 I really like this image, Four Ladies in Boat, just look at the expression on their faces, aren't they great :



I guess the meaning of the wording is open to interpretation, deep and meaningful or just humorous .. what do you think ?

For this postcard, I used water soluble powders for the background, I love how the colors swirl and mix when you spritz it with water. I dabbed off the excess water from the sides.


Then I added some of the powder to my craft mat and sprayed it with water. Using this as a sort of stamp pad, to add some cloud like images on my background. I used Smear/smudge stamp to do that :


Then time to stamp my focal image. I stamped it onto the background, and then again onto plain white card stock, which I colored with alcohol markers and fussy cut :


Finally I glued my image over the top of the other, edged the postcard in black and mounted it onto black cardboard. The words were typed on my typewriter.

These ladies are adorable, here's a close up. You can just make out the crystal effects I added to their glasses to make them a little more reflective :)



I hope you found a little inspiration here :) Nikki x




3 comments:

Julie S said...

Well done, Nikki. Really cool background and the image is fab. You just know these ladies have some good stories, don't you?

Corrie Herriman said...

Great job Nikki !
Corrie x

Gerrina said...

A fun and beautiful card!