Sunday 14 October 2012

Stone the crows!

The challenge this week on Sunday Postcard Art is Crows, which is part of the 4 weeks of Halloween.  I know that the crows should probably be in a Halloween context but I'm taking a tangent.

Welcome to my crazy crow.

The crow who wouldn't quiet down.

 I sprayed the postcard with Bubble Gum pink and sunshine yellow Dylusions sprays before stamping a small script stamp in Archival Orange and a cross hatch stamp in Archival Magenta.  Across the bottom I stamped a small checker pattern in Memento London Fog.  This is an amazing shade of ink because it always looks to be layers below everything else, even if it's not.


Next came some white gesso through a stencil and the pink dye has fed through and given it a pearly sheen.  I used black gesso through a stencil at the bottom and then painted the black squares with interference red, the interference gold on the white gesso.

Mr crow was found on a search on the internet and the crown I cut from a scrap of paper.  To give it some texture I applied perfect pearls to the crown and the white circles

17 comments:

  1. great card, I like your take on the theme and the colours!

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  2. Love your very colourful take on ravens, Liz, superb card!

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  3. A wonderful postcard! I love the bubblegum pink.

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  4. beautiful colorful postcard!

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  5. A wonderful card with gorgeous colours. I loved reading how you did it.

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  6. This is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your technique and supplies. Love the colours and layered look!

    Cindy :)

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  7. I think this crow is in my backyard! Fabby card!!!

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  8. Love that background and its morph from pink to orange and thanks for your words too...wonderful postcard!

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  9. Beautiful, love the contrast of the black raven kong to the warm colorful background.

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  10. A stunning postcard! Beautiful technique!

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  11. Great texture and fab postcard, Liz! Nice to see a different take...

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  12. A great card full of expression and color!

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  13. Oh Liz, I love your postcard! Your crow is teriffic and doing a great job of crowing about it. Gorgeous background too.

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  14. I loooove those colours. The background is wonderful and I really like the way the crow jumps off the page.

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  15. Very cool & super fun RAVEN postcard!!! I really like that it has dimension to it!!
    Thanks for sharing...
    Susie

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  16. A wonderful postcard - the background colours are fabulous and I love the crow.
    xxx Hazel.

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Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment, I really appreciate it - Liz