Thursday, February 6, 2014

Get Altered Challenge - Altered Playing Cards





Hello there, everyone!  It's Broni here today with this month's eP Get Altered Challenge.  This month I'd like for us all to play with~
Altered Playing Cards


I'm sad to say I haven't tried this before, but after this fun little adventure I'm sure I'll be going back to pull from my deck again and again!

Since it's February, the month of Valentines, I decided to make Valentine altered playing cards for all my grandchildren.   There are 8 altogether between George and myself.  Whew!  So it literally took days for this all to come together.

I'm going to try to take you through a few of the steps….the ones I can remember and that I photographed!  The first thing I did was sand all my cards using a sanding grip block.

 I used my Gelli plate to apply some aqua and lime acrylic paints to the cards, then I added some purple dots.  Instead of using a brayer, I just used a paint brush.  It gave more texture to the surface of the cards.  It also took longer to dry between layers.  I did this with 4 of the cards.

 

 
 I painted over them with white acrylic paint and then wiped it off with a baby wipe.  This helped the texture of the paint to show up better.  I cut a heart from a scrap of paper and used it to draw hearts onto the cards.  Then I painted them with red acrylic paint.

 For the other 4 cards, I decided to try painting directly on the cards as opposed to using the Gelli plate.  I used the same colors and also painted on the purple dots.  I spread some Studio 490 white embossing paste on 2 of the cards and let it dry to add some texture.


Then I put on some more embossing paste using my Mini Hexagons stencil and my palette knife.  After it dried, I sprayed on several different bright Dylusions ink sprays.  When they dried I sprayed just a little of the White Linen ink spray.



I sprayed the first 4 altered playing cards with White Linen ink spray as well.



Here are all the cards.  (You can see I experimented a little with the bottom right one.)

I used both pieces of my cut-out heart (the positive and the negative) as masks to stamp either onto the hearts or around the hearts.

I did some more stamping on the cards using the Catherine Scanlon Random Shapes images and Archival jet black ink.  This second photo is taken from a different angle so that you can see the texture even under the Glossy Accents that I added to all the hearts.


And here are some closeups:

Ok then!  That's my take on Altered Playing Cards.  I hope you'll decide to play along with us for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the eclectic Paperie store!  Be sure to link up below so we can all check out what you come up with!

Thanks for visiting!



16 comments:

  1. Wow! Broni these are amazing, I love the way you have transformed these humble playing cards into mini works of art , love the colours, texture and the process you used , wonderful ! Xx

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  2. These are gorgeous, Broni. I never would have thought of using a gellyplate for the background...fabulous. The embossing paste creates lovely texture and the shine on the hearts looks amazing and magnifies the details behind it. What a wonderful Valentine's card idea...lucky grandkids.

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  3. Wonderful altered cards, and great challenge.

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  4. Great challenge and thanks for the easy to follow directions. Love your Valentines.

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  5. LOVE these Valentine cards, Broni! All of the different layers and colors are FAB and the glossy accents on the hearts is just the most PERFECT touch! LOVE them all!

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  6. Fabulous transformation Broni! Love how the hearts shine! Sue C x

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  7. These are gorgeous. I love all the layers on there.

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  8. Awesome awesome idea and beautiful cards. I love your colors and I totally need to remember to sand the cards first...... love this challenge.

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  9. Fantastic cards! Love those backgrounds!!! Thank you so much for the fun challenge!

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  10. Wow, love the idea of using up old card decks. Inspirational cards which I love!!! Can't wait to play along.

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  11. Who knew what you could do with csrds. Thanks Broni, this was a lot of fun and I am anxious for my gellyplate to arrive so I can give your suggestions a try.

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  12. So excited to find this challenge (thanks Sue)! Love the dramatic alteration of your cards Broni, they are fantastic.

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  13. Deeeelish Broni...from cards to ART!!
    Love them all.
    Big hugs
    Tracy
    xoxox

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  14. Gorgeous colour and texture - love, love,LOVE them!

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