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Fanciful Creations with Vanessa Valencia’s Fanciful Postcards
By Kristen Robinson Vanessa Valencia is known for her whimsical and delightful artwork. Vanessa has created amazing postcards (5VA-PACK01) featuring her one of a kind artwork that is highly sought after. Each of us would love to own one of her amazing creations; it is now possible through wonderful postcards showcasing some of her most popular art. Although the postcards are perfect to send in the mail to a friend they are also a perfect addition to any art collection. When added to a custom matte you create the card is ready to hang on the wall and thoroughly enjoy. |
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Super Bake Girl – Cupcake
Tools and Materials 1. Paint your watercolor paper with pink watercolor paint and set aside to dry (or dry with a hair dryer or heat gun). 2. Once your paper has dried add polka dots with paint dabber, again let air dry or speed up the process with a hair dryer. 3. Once your background is dry add a piece of pink toile fabric (I laid mine wrong side up so the colors would appear a bit more muted) to the watercolor paper and glue. Now add pages from a dictionary to three sides of your fabric, adhere with paper safe glue. 4. Add photo corners to your postcard and glue down to the background you have created. 5. With watercolor crayons, colored pencils and pencil add shading and doodles to your piece. 6. Finally frame in a black frame and enjoy your new piece of art. |
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Strange Beautiful Lady
Tools and Materials 1. Once you have cut your paper to size determine what are will be hidden by the frame and place a small dot at each corner this will help with shading later. 2. With a black Micron pen (or other fine tip pen) draw a series of lines. Fill the lines in with a wide tip sharpie, the two inks will create movement in your background. 3. To the corners of your postcard add a bit of pale pink paint and set aside to dry. 4. To your background add shading with watercolor pencils and colored pencils. 5. To the bottom center add your paper add your definition again adding a dab of pink paint if you so wish. 6. Glue your postcard onto your background and frame your custom matted piece of artwork. |
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Bliss
Tools and Materials 1. Begin by covering your matte board with fabric using either a fabric adhesive or spray adhesive. 2. Gather sheet music and ledger paper – create a stack with these pages folding in an accordion manner taking care not to be precise as you will want the background to mirror the texture of the artwork. 3. Add a few drops of adhesive between layers, once this is dry begin adding random stitches using embroidery floss, to your stack. 4. To your postcard add a series of French knots again with embroidery floss. Add additional stitches to the top center of the card as well as the bottom center. 5. Place the postcard on top of your paper pack and glue into place. Once this is done shade the edges with watercolor pencils. 6. With the Staz On ink and your scroll stamp randomly stamp onto your background. 7. Glue your paper onto your fabric and add a piece of satin ribbon to the top. 8. Finish by adding doodles and hatch marks around the perimeter of your piece. |
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