Tracy Evans Boutique Designs "Seedheads TE40" Artist Trading Card

This is my Artist Trading Card (ATC) for the day.  I've used layers of Distress Paint, (Rustic Wilderness, Salvaged Patina and Prize Ribbon), spritzed dried and then another layer of paint added, along with speckles of spritzed white, orange and gold Posca Pen to create the background of this ATC.

I used Versafine Clair "Acorn", a rich mid brown coloured ink to stamp the seedheads, part of the Tracy Evans "Seedheads TE40" stamp set, on the ATC and then again on white card. I coloured the seedheads using three shades of Distress Oxide inks, applied with a paint brush.  the colours I used are:  Tea Dye, Spiced Marigold and Rustic Wilderness.  I added areas of black fine liner pen and white gel pen to them too.  I then fussy cut them.

At this stage, I decided that the background was too similar to the painted seedheads to I added more colour using a couple of pastel pencils in a brighter green and an orange.  I used Versafine Clair "Twilight" a dark blue ink, to stamp the text, which is part of the Tracy Evans "Magnolia TE43I then glued the seedheads into position.

I still wasn't happy with the background, especially the edges of the ATC, so I used a blue Posca Pen very loosely round the edges of the card,  I added some more white splatters of Posca Pen across the surface and finally added a Tim Holtz "Idea-ology" word sticker staying "genuine".

Tracy Evans Boutique Designs "A Promise Of Tomorrow TE63" Artist Trading Card

This is my Artist Trading Card (ATC) for the day.  I used layers of two Ranger Distress Paints "Prize Ribbon" and "Salvaged Patina".  Once I was happy with the background, I then splattered white and gold Posca Pens over the surface and spritzed with water to achieve a more mottled look to the splatters, using a heat gun to dry.  I then splattered white Posca Pen over the surface again, but didn't spritz the dots to retain the splatter look.

I used Versafine Clair "Twilight" dark blue ink to stamp the flower on to the ATC and on to a piece of white card.  The flower is part of the Tracy Evans Boutique Designs "A Promise Of Tomorrow TE63" stamp set.  I then stamped the words in the background using the same ink, the words are also part of the same stamp set.

Returning to the flower head stamped on white card, I fussy cut it and glued it into position,  I added a touch of yellow to the petals using a Derwent Inktense Pencil, colouring the flower head with yeloow and orange Posca Pens.  I added shading to the stem and the leaf by using a white gel pen and a black fine liner pen.  Finally, I added a Tim Holtz "Idea-ology" word sticker saying "friendship".

Canal/Folk Art three hand painted flowers on a wooden disc

More play using some of the techniques learnt at the Canal Art & Signwriting Masterclass I recently attended.

I've used the paints I had in my stash, so I painted the twelve inch wooden disc using some Frenchic paint I'd used on a previous furniture project..

Once dry, I used Tim Holtz Distress Paints, Acrylic Paint and PaperArtsy chalk paints.

I'm still learning, but I feel I'm starting to get to grips with this style of art.