Altered Playing Card Challenge Week 3

Hello all and welcome back to our 3rd week of 

The Altered Playing Card Challenge

This is week 3 on this wonderful journey and I hope you all are having fun with your personal deck. I for one, am loving this. 

Here is a link to our Facebook group if you would like to join and share ideas and your creations.

Facebook Group - Altered Playing Card Challenge

and here are links to week one and two if your playing catch up

Week 1

Week 2

This week I created my backgrounds two different ways.

For my first card I used alcohol inks in a few different colors, ginger, caramel, latte and stream, then using a distress tool, I dabbed my background to give it some color

I didn't quite like the way it looked above, so I waited for the first layer to dry and then I dabbed some more of the same colors again

Much better!

Once that was done and dry, I used archival ink and a stencil onto my background

I only wanted to use part of this stencil and not all of it so I sectioned it off using sticky notes and left the portion that I wanted to use exposed 

I used Wendy Vecchi's Potting Soil color to apply

This is how my background looked after, I love it!!

I then used Tim Holtz Gears dies to create some gears with distress paper

I then used my sanding block to sand the paper here and there and colored the edged with the same Wendy Vecchi Archival ink

I added my gears using glue

I then used Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs and added the word "time" onto the side panel

I used a phrase in this Tim Holtz stamp set to stamp my word onto the background using archival jet black ink

Lastly, I used a copper paint pen to edge the outside of my card.

Here is my first finished card, I love the steampunk feel

For the 2nd card I wanted to do something "fall-ish" so this time I used distress inks to color my background, (you can use any kind of ink pad for this step)

 starting in the center and using a distress tool, I applied the color mustard seed first

I then used the color spiced marmalade for the outer portion (you can see here that this particular card I made with some texture)

I then used the color Vintage Photo to go around my outer edge

Next I cut some fall foliage out using Tim's Die called

Autumn Gatherings and also using distress paper for this

I sanded these and then used the vintage photo distress ink again to darken some of the edges

I used Tim's "Wanted" decorative strip letter die to cut out the word "fall" and also a mover and shaper bird from black card stock

(sorry I didn't take a photo)

Glueing everything on, here is my finished 2nd card

as you can see I went around my bird with the white gel pen as well

Here are my two cards together

I hope you have enjoyed today's two cards, they are very different but super fun! Weather you chose to do yours the same or completely different, I wish you luck this week.

The winner of the give-a-way from last week was drawn at random and is Michele - please send me an email with your address!

Here was Michele's Comment

MicheleSeptember 8, 2014 at 10:50 PM

Claudine your cards are just gorgeous! I'm excited to get my 1st 2 done. I love that you are leading us through this adventure! xo

Michele will win this package:

Look for our next give-a-way in a few weeks. 

Have fun and can't wait to see what you create.
p.s. - I haven't yet put together my cards for next week so I will post a "supply list" on the Facebook page as soon as I know

Cheers!!!

Supplies for next week - 
1. Tissue Paper
2. Janet Klien Digi stamps (I used the City Girl set)
3. Stampotique Clouds Stamp 2 Nauges
4. Acrylic Paint in various coordinating colors
5. Gelli Prints or Printed Paper
6. Sharpie Black Marker or any other black marker that will write over acrylic paint
That's it, next week will be easy on supplies