icad - day 21 - step by step art

I've been wanting to make this one for days....after I saw "Rock of Ages" last weekend I knew that I just had to make a card about it.  It's just taken me this long to kind of decide what to do.  I say kind of, because I really didn't know what I was going to do, but I had pulled a few music inspired items to possibly use on this card.  No video again, but pictures were taken along the way....

 Pile of odds and ends to possibly use.....

Adhered a few things down with mat medium....words, wings, t-shirt and photo of band were clipped from a magazine.....

add some letter stickers to finish the phrase..... 

rub around the edges of the card w/ black ink..... 

draw around the words with a black pen..... 

 what's the 80's w/o hot pink and lime green? lol  added some color with acrylic paints and a stamp....

and here's the finished card!

ROCK ON!!!!! 

Be sure to visit Daisy Yellow to learn all about icad2012!  It's never too late to join in on the fun!!!

Thanks for stopping by and God Bless!

di

icad2 - day 20 - step by step art

Well, I've gotten totally out of order with sharing my cards here, but oh well. lol  The weekend threw me off and now I'm kind of playing catch up. ;-)

I wasn't able to do a video of me creating this card, but I did take some photos along the way.....

A friend gave me a ton of Creative Memories alphabet stickers, so I decided to put some of them to good use....

 Painted on a couple of light layers of gesso....

 Added some self-adhesive drywall tape (because it just so happened to be sitting there on my counter from working on a previous card)

Pulled out some paints to use and my spray bottle of water..... 

 Rubbed them around on the card and sprayed with some water.....

 Patted all of that extra painty-goodness onto a blank page in my art journal (waste not what not! lol) 

 Color wash and an alphabet stencil along the edge (the calander page is there to protect the other half of the card from random spray)

I had pulled out this orange acrylic paint and it had been sitting there the whole time unused....time to use it....

Stamped Suzi Blu's Pretty Girl stamp onto a blank card....

 Colored her in with Prisma colored pencils and Inktense pencils.....

Adhered her onto the card with mat medium along with "are you dreaming" that was clipped from a magazine 

Covered her face and the words with scraps of paper to avoid splatters of white paint from getting on those parts..... 

And here it is....all done!  I really like all of the texture on this one....

especially where you can see the letter stickers...I know I will be doing this again and I can't wait to try it on an art journal page!

And, as always, be sure to visit Daisy Yellow to learn all about icad2012!

Thanks so much for visiting!

God Bless,

di

icad - day 16 - step by step art

I wasn't able to video making todays card, but I did snap some pictures along the way to share with you.  I was cleaning things up in my closet the other day and I found this fabric clothing tag that I'd stashed away to use in a project.  So, there's no better time than the present, right? lol  I found a few other things to go along with it and here's what I came up with....

Mod Podge on book paper that I've been spraying onto from other projects and the fabric, clothing tag....

 two colors of brown, acrylic paint with a stencil....

added some red color spray because the brown didn't work as well as I wanted it to....

 then added some white color spray because things were getting too dark for me....

found this paper w/ the quote on it that worked perfect with the tricycle stamp.... 

still too dark for me, so I added some white drippage....because I love drippage lol....went around the edges w/ black ink....

 Mod Podge on the paper elements and added some white acrylic paint w/ some bubble wrap....

and here's the finished card:

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope that you're enjoying icad 2012 as much as I am!  I really need to sit down one night and visit everyone's blogs, flickr, etc...I know that I am missing out on loads of amazing art work that everyone else is doing.  Oh, and be sure to visit Daisy Yellow to learn all about icad2!  

Take care and God Bless!

di