For my Harry Potter cards I wanted to do something different. There have been so many Harry Potter swaps and I was afraid my image may have been done before in a more traditional manner.
I broke the alcohol inks out and decided to make this showdown between Harry and Valdemort appear like it occurred in the middle of a color run. I used three colors of inks to make the background for this image and I also used distress inks in Orange Marmalade to make the orange mat layer. Plain black paper was used for the outer frame and lastly I painted the entire card in Ranger Distress Crackle Paint in hard rock candy to give it a more crackly effect. I was pretty happy with how these cards turned out and can't wait to see the rest of the cards from this swap!
A few friends talked me into signing up for the Babes tracker at the last minute, so I did not have a lot of time to pull this card together. I needed an easy peasey carve so I could spent more time working on the card itself.
I decided to customize my paper for this card by using distress paint in black soot for the outer frame. The inner frame was made using salty ocean distress ink. I used a blending tool to make the blue background and then stamped a polka dot rubber stamp on top of that in the same color to create a cool handmade background to highlight my hand carved stamp.
Next, I stamped my babe using versa fine ink and colored her dress and tattoo with a Prisma marker. I gave her some shimmery eye shadow using a clear stardust gelly roll pen and added a fabric flower to her hair.
For the final touch I carved the words "Hey Daddy-O!" and stamped them on some red paper, then layered them on top of the card.
With the final touches done, my babe was ready to mail out and I was happy to check this card off of my to do list. Producing a card in one week can be very stressful!
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