I also made a little video that shows my process:
In November 2019, I participated in Nat’s “Deck of Cards”
challenge. By the end of the month, I had 30 pretty cool pieces of artwork that
were just the right size for greeting cards. I felt a little too attached to
some of them to actually use as cards and send off in the mail to friends and
family, so I bundled them up and propped them up on my display shelf. Here’s a
few of them:
But…I wanted a prettier way to display the cards, so I hit
on the idea of creating a free-standing triptych to showcase them. I had too
many to display all at once, so I decided to attach little pieces of Velcro to
my favorites so the display could easily be changed.
I started by mixing up my favorite shades of pink and yellow
and painting some 140 lb. watercolor paper. In addition to the painted paper, I
also used a piece of recycled brown paper bag. Next, I spread white acrylic
onto my geli plate and picked up paint with Nat’s positive/negative Hamilton
rubber stamps, then stamped all over the three surfaces. (Once the geli plate
was full of marks, I also pulled prints off it with deli paper.)
Once I had plenty of printed paper, I auditioned different
cards and lace to see what would work best for my triptych. I folded and cut a
fresh piece of watercolor paper to the triptych shape.
Next, I glued the printed papers on and cut them to size.
With a glue stick, I added some gorgeous thick lace.
The final step was attaching the Velcro dots to both the
triptych and the cards.
The hardest part was finding a space in my small apartment
to display my new creation!
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