Pink Bird Studio

New Postcard Series

Well hello!  I know I don’t usually post during the week, but I’m on vacation, and I have a special post regarding a series of postcards made specifically for an online challenge from My Collage Lab  If you’re visiting from my Instagram page, welcome and thank you.  

First of all, this series is inspired by video published on one of my favourite artist’s YouTube channel - Jane Davies.  In case you’re not already following Jane (and if not, what’s wrong with you?!) the link to this particular tutorial is Here

This post is not a tutorial, but I wanted to show you a few of the different layers that went into this project. Since this is a collage challenge, the layers of collage might not be immediately evident, and I wanted to show them in particular.  But of course I forgot to photograph a few layers - I get quite caught up in the process!

First of all, I glued down some of my photocopied doodles onto a 9” x 12” piece of Strathmore mixed media paper.  I also added a bit of black paint as shown. 

Next I added some paint in some of my favourite colours.  I pulled some of the paint up with a sheet of paper in order to make sure my initial layer still showed through.

Next I added some hand-painted tissue paper.  The circles you see are already glued down.  You can see the black marks sitting on top waiting to be glued.  I used tissue from an old pattern.

And here the are, all glued down.

Next I brayered some lighter colour horizontally, and added some stamped patterns from my favourite stamp source for mixed media - Art Foamies

Here I’ve added some marks with my Molotow pen in Signal Red, as well as a few scraps of gelli print.  I didn’t like the white edges on the gelli print so I blended in a bit of Neocolor II crayon.

At this point I cut the base into four equal 4.5” x 6” pieces.  Although a postcard size is usually 4” x 6” I don’t like to waste paper and there is no real size restriction.  As those of you who follow me know I often make postcards from bingo cards of various sizes, as well as square cards and even giant puzzle pieces.  

After the cards were cut, I added some finishing touches and wound up with the following four cards.

Thank you so much for joining me today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the different layers that went into these cards.  

August Square Collages - week 4

We are just about wrapping up August.  I confess I’ve been working ahead so I’ll have enough cards to make at least another full week.  I’ve really enjoyed this format, and have already sold and mailed some of the cards that I made with them.

I started the week continuing with the bird theme.

Then it was back to abstracts.

 

Then I decided to use some of these fabulous small cards from ARTchix Studio from so many years ago (designed by the original Art Chick herself, Helga).

And this one features part of a label from the black paper I’ve used as the backing for all these squares.  Trying to reduce waste wherever I can!

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I will be posting the rest of August and into September same time next week.  

Sunday Postcard Art - Giraffes

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Giraffes.  Who doesn’t love a giraffe?  My giraffe has escaped from the carousel!

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I’ll be posting week 4 of my August square collage challenge tomorrow - I hope you’ll come back!  

August Square Collages - Week 3

Is it just me, or is August flying by?  Here are the next seven square collages.

 

Thanks so much for joining me today!  See you next week.

Sunday Postcard Art - Games

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Games - a favourite theme.  Of course I had to use an old Bingo card as my substrate!

Thanks so much for joining me today.  Tomorrow I’ll be sharing the week’s square collages - I’d love it if you’d come back!  

August Square Collages - Week 2

Here are this week’s seven square collages, in no particular order…

I have to throw a heart in every so often.  

And a house…

Love this chess stamp!

I call this abstract “bits and pieces from my desk”… ok maybe I’ll leave it untitled.

Pretty much the same for the rest of the week - just putting together pleasant combinations of colour and shape.  

And then there was this one that I had laid out slightly differently originally - that piece on the right lower corner was supposed to go under the piece on the top left to give better contrast to the butterfly.  Once it’s glued it’s glued.  Oh well!  

Thanks so much for joining me today! 

August square collages - week 1

As mentioned, this month I’ll be making one square collage a day.  I’ve already made some of them into greeting cards and sold some of them so I won’t be doing a group shot at the end of the month this time.

I won’t comment on all of them, but LOVE these chair stamps!

And these transportation themed stamps are amazing too!  

This card is featuring some of my black and white doodles that I’ve had photocopied for use in collage and image transfers.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  

 

ICAD wrap up

Wow, I can’t believe it’s over already!  This definitely felt like the fastest ICAD on record.

Starting with Day 57

Day 58

Day 59

Day 60

And finally wrapping up with Day 61 and a big thank you!  That thank you is to Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art  for this fun challenge, our group moderators in the Facebook group, and all the people who’ve looked at, commented or “liked” my work in that same group or on my Instagram page, or of course on this blog - thanks so much!

 

And here is a “group shot” of all (or most) of the cards plus some bonus warm-up cards.  Why most?  Well I think I messed up on my counting so I ended up with 62 cards in theory, but one is “missing” (temporarily I’m sure - happens pretty much every year).  So this picture shows 61 cards + 10 bonus cards.

 

Now last but not least, people do ask what I ‘do’ with my ICADs.  I put them in a book.  I like to use a book with black pages as my cards tend to be so colourful.

Here’s the cover of this year’s book.

And one of the pages inside - this book fits three cards per page very nicely.

And I have room for about 40 more cards.  I’ll fill it up with either more index cards or some postcards.  We’ll see what I feel like.  My project this August is 31 square collages.  They aren’t going in the book - I’ll be making cards out of them for birthdays and other special occasions.  If I’m smart, maybe I’ll make some of them holiday themed!  Haha - doubtful in August.  

Thanks so much for joining me today and looking at my ICADs - I hope you enjoyed them.

ICAD week 8

This week is the penultimate week for ICAD - wow that went fast!

Starting with Day 49, which wrapped up that three day “mini series” started last week. The black and white design is a photocopy of some of my doodles I’ve been doing recently exploring various patterns.  You’ll see more of these as we go along this week.

Day 50 - more photocopied doodles, and a connection to card 51…

Day 51 - the connection is this is the lower part of the same face used for card 50.

Day 52 marks the beginning of another three-day miniseries - the common element here being the lovely lady pictured here, who for many years was the muse of ARTchix Studio.

Day 53

Day 54

Day 55

That’s it for this week - Thank you so much for joining me today.  I hope you’ll join me next week to see the ICAD wrap up.  

ICAD Week 7

Another week of ICAD has flown by - here are my latest cards.

ICAD is the annual Index Card a Day challenge founded and hosted by Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art  .

Starting on Day 42 - I love this train stamp!

Day 43

Day 44

Day 45

Day 46

Day 47 kicked off another mini-series.  I found these three great collectible cards in my stash of stuff.  The third one will be at the start of next week..

Day 48

That’s it for the week.  Thanks for joining me today!