Don't Be a Picklebump

Saturday night’s paper weaving experiment is still not really finished. I’m having issues with how tight the weave is. It’s causing me to rip the paper.

So here’s what it looked like as I was getting ready to start.

I worked about half the picture and this is what I’ve got so far:
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I’m thinking about maybe gluing all this together, then trimming it, and incorporating it into another piece. But there’s also the stubborn part of me that wants to finish it to see what it looks like.

If I use this technique again, I’ll definitely make the strips bigger.

Tonight’s project is an artist trading card (ATC).

I started with a vintage black and white picture that I had scanned of a little girl in a dress holding a rose.

I took Copic markers and colored the dress, the rose, and leaves.

Here’s the end results before I trimmed off the excess around the little girl.

And here’s the little girl on the ATC blank before I started working on it.

I laid a base of Distress Ink in Broken China and then took some Distress Ink in Black Soot to soften three of the sides. Then I took some star-shaped sequin waste that I got from Gauche Alchemy’s Shoppe and pounced some Stewart-Gill Pearlise Paint in Clamshell through the waste. Then I printed out the words and toned them down using Distress Ink in Old Paper. I glued everything down and this is the end result!

Techniques that were new to me on this one: Using Copic Markers to color an image.