A Few More Artists' Trading Cards

Rubberstamped images over "smooshed" Alcohol Inks backgrounds  

This is how I created the backgrounds for ten of these eleven ATC's:  after a recent Alcohol Inks art session, I had quite a bit of spillage on the glossy freezer paper covering the table surface.  So I spritzed the dried ink with more alcohol, then "smooshed" some pre-cut card stock ATC blanks into it to pick up the yellow, orange, pink and purple inks.  Thus the dreamy blended colors. 

Collage over "smooshed" Alcohol Inks backgrounds

Oh, and I flicked some gold paint from a big paint pen over the card backgrounds.

Fun Little Folded Booklets

Using paper trimmings from other projects, I colored these strips with acrylic paints, added rubberstamped images, glued in sayings or applied stickers leaving a little space for a written note.  In the last example I used a gold pen to make designs on the covers, and roller-stamped vines...

"cover"

back of strip

inside of opened-out booklet

inside pages

 

back of strip