Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Making of a Postcard





1. cut card stock or use blank postcard


2.  On this postcard, I used a napkin as the background
I applied using soft gel medium



3.  I decided instead of drawing I would use this
bird stencil I had. and used it like a stamp,
with black staz on ink


I then used these dollar store rubs, with a paint brush
and painted the bird, using a white gel pen, and
black pen to highlight


The final step was putting a couple of letters on it.


Tommorw I will show you how I made a transfer postcard

lee


17 comments:

  1. That is soooo cool! And I love that you used the pic as your new banner. Awesome!!

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  2. Yay!, thanks for sharing both the finished card and the materials and making of it! I really dig the bird, it's spring in the air! :-)

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  3. Beautiful postcard! Love the new banner too!
    Sophie

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  4. I really enjoyed reading your process and the postcard is gorgeous! I saw your image with the box of seperated letters - what a great idea!

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  5. your new blog header just bowled me over - its super!!! thanks forthe info and the tuorial too...v informative!

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  6. That's a great postcard...thanks for showing us how you did it. I like the new header too!
    Mary

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  7. Very lovely and I hope you are well!

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  8. Oh, wow! These are just great, and I really enjoyed reading about your process!

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  9. Hi, Please let me be on your list! I Love that bird. Happy swopping. jane

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  10. Beautiful card! I thought I had commented on it earlier, but just reread your post and comments, and realized I had not. I am doing Hanna's postcard swap too. Lovely work!

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  11. beautiful. I love the bird.

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  12. Lovely layers. Beautiful header!

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  14. WONderful postcard! I hope you got my address in the swap!

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  15. There's no doubt your postcard is so cool but I can't help but notice it's sitting on a very organized looking sorted box of cut out letters!! What a terrific idea...

    Is it a tackle/fishing box or hardware sorting box thing? I never thought of using one quite this way... brilliant Lee!!

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  16. Fun to see your in progress.

    EWian

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  17. Lee, I received the beeeautiful green bird postcard. It arrived just in time for my birthday! What a lovely surprise. Thank you so much!

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