Creative Projects

I have taken pictures of some projects but not all because frankly taking pretty pictures for blogging is not easy for me -- too much darn work, so I will include pictures of those projects I still have around.

These cards are from the Inspirational Quote Deck Swap over at Jessica's blog.

Our instructions were to alter a deck of playing cards or to create one from scratch. I chose to alter some old cards (because I have stacks of these and I thought it would be easier).

There are tutorials on the site for how to make this an easier job but i happened on these much too late.

For me it was an arduous process and I created a royal mess:

Halfway through I was wondering what I had gotten myself into as it really takes a long time to make fifty two art cards and I covered the backs too with old book pages.

If I were to do this again I would follow the tutorial on the site that suggested ironing the cards onto freezer paper. By the time I found that tutorial I had already gessoed and painted my cards and it just didn't work. My cards ended up bubbling. Rather than start over I just went with the bubbling and stenciled them with texture medium.

I also tried printing quotes on tracing paper -- another tip from the tutorials.

I ironed the tracing paper to freezer paper and ran it through my printer.  The one word quotes are when I got too tired and decided to make my life easier:

Would I join this swap again? Definitely but  would probably give myself more time to work on them next time and I would definitely check out the tutorials first before I began.

The other thing I worked on was this wreath:

This is definitely one for the pink loving ladies :)

I used vintage millinery flowers and silk leaves from Japan, satin ribbon to wrap a wreath form, a little lady figurine, an old vintage earring, a chandelier crystal dangling from the bow at the base and a little  spun cotton bird (might be a little hard to see).

I think I will be making more of these.

I will post pictures of the deck I receive when it arrives.

Have a wonderful day with lots of Vintage style.