Thank you for visiting my art blog! I am an artist in southern California, and this blog is about my journey into art. My art is mixed media original art, and very often my vehicle for sharing is a greeting card. I paint and ink and stamp and rip and shred and glue and emboss, but no designer paper is harmed in the making of my collages. It all starts with blank paper.

June 11, 2012

Father's Day Greetings

Hopefully my father-in-law won't notice his Father's Day card on this blog before he receives it!  I actually made the inset of this card at a class at Stamping Details in Poway, so it is not my original design.  I found myself out in Poway one day, on my way back from Ramona with some time on my hands.  I jumped into the class after they had started, and caught right up.  I enjoy learning about techniques that I did not dream up, and using die cuts and other tools that I do not own.  The inset was meant to be on a smaller note card, but I backed it with a distress-painted card to make it fit on a larger card.  The detail I love the most is the mica sheet used to line the car windows to make them look like they are paned glass.

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