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Can't wait to see them in person.
Happy Accidents Swap - Due Date: Sept 9th, 2022
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Can't wait to see them in person.
This sounds fun, count me in! I just finished my first swap up and it was so much fun!
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Everlorne
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Happy to add you.
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My cards are done.
It was great to work with backgrounds that hadn't worked for me before.
The first one, when I started, was just a map of the region of Barcelona in Spain glued to a black and white background. I think the collage and drawn details finally make it interesting.
The other three cards are collages made with beeswax, napkins and tissue images and postage stamps.
I have had the tree image background (second card) sitting in my pile for almost two years. I think it makes a nice old French countryside.
For the Eiffel Tower card, the blue in the background (which is actually brighter than in the scan) is from blue printing on paper I used as a coaster for my wet water glass that blurred and stained. It makes a perfect sky.
The Margaret Atwood stamp card contains two happy accidents. One is an old background. And the second is the stamp itself - when I was soaking it to get the stamp off the (pink) envelope, the color ran and stained the top half of the stamp. I think it looks really cool! So I used it as the beginning of the color palette for the whole card.
It was great to work with backgrounds that hadn't worked for me before.
The first one, when I started, was just a map of the region of Barcelona in Spain glued to a black and white background. I think the collage and drawn details finally make it interesting.
The other three cards are collages made with beeswax, napkins and tissue images and postage stamps.
I have had the tree image background (second card) sitting in my pile for almost two years. I think it makes a nice old French countryside.
For the Eiffel Tower card, the blue in the background (which is actually brighter than in the scan) is from blue printing on paper I used as a coaster for my wet water glass that blurred and stained. It makes a perfect sky.
The Margaret Atwood stamp card contains two happy accidents. One is an old background. And the second is the stamp itself - when I was soaking it to get the stamp off the (pink) envelope, the color ran and stained the top half of the stamp. I think it looks really cool! So I used it as the beginning of the color palette for the whole card.
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Everlorne
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These cards look great mrubyjean! Thank you for sharing the story behind their creation.
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You sure can! Thanks for joining.
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My cards just went in the mail.
The top left was from a set I did for a swap awhile back where all the cards were not to the host's liking... I've traded the other three over time, and this was the last one left. Top right I started during the last A-thon, but couldn't get finished in time. Bottom two were both from different past A-thons... nobody wanted them so I added some ink and colored pencil accents and used them here.
The top left was from a set I did for a swap awhile back where all the cards were not to the host's liking... I've traded the other three over time, and this was the last one left. Top right I started during the last A-thon, but couldn't get finished in time. Bottom two were both from different past A-thons... nobody wanted them so I added some ink and colored pencil accents and used them here.
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Everlorne
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These look great! Can't wait to see them in person.
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My Before and after cards for this Happy Accidents Swap
Often when I make cards, for swaps, I make a more than needed and weed out the ones that don't win a spot for the swap.
The black bird cards, were created on a Citrasolv background swap, first then the black bird was was a raven for the Edgar Allan Poe swap, both times the cards didn't make the cute. Then for an art a thon, I added the flowers, but alas still didn't get finished.
There was a TEXT swap. and hard as I tried, I could not get the LOVED monster stamps to finish up their artful appearance. I again tried to finish them up with an art a thon. But alas they were shy and not ready.
These are my final items. I was given the yellow textured paper in a Rak over on swap bot, and bought the shiny things on clearance at the Dollar General.
I hope you all love them and will give these birds and fun monsters a new home.
I am not really sure these are Ravens, but are surely black bird.
Often when I make cards, for swaps, I make a more than needed and weed out the ones that don't win a spot for the swap.
The black bird cards, were created on a Citrasolv background swap, first then the black bird was was a raven for the Edgar Allan Poe swap, both times the cards didn't make the cute. Then for an art a thon, I added the flowers, but alas still didn't get finished.
There was a TEXT swap. and hard as I tried, I could not get the LOVED monster stamps to finish up their artful appearance. I again tried to finish them up with an art a thon. But alas they were shy and not ready.
These are my final items. I was given the yellow textured paper in a Rak over on swap bot, and bought the shiny things on clearance at the Dollar General.
I hope you all love them and will give these birds and fun monsters a new home.
I am not really sure these are Ravens, but are surely black bird.
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