I’d made the linoblock of a woman reading for another birthday card for Jane, and the print was still in the pack of cards. I cut it out and placed it experimentally on the blue scrapbooking paper background. It wanted some kind of outline, and I love the idea of using text, so I took a piece of a novel that I’d altered and cut around it.
The edge was too harsh, so I softened it by burning it with a woodburner. I wanted to adhere it and also tint it blue or violet to match the rest, so I added some violet pearl acrylic to the tranparent gel medium. It’s still not quite as tinted as I would like, but I jsut left it. I also added some mardi-gras colored glass beads to the pitcute while it was still wet. You can’t see them very well in the photo. I also added the dove feather, just because I had it lying around.
I had already decided to make a laser decal of writing for another card, so I took the scraps of that and laid it over this, just because the colors didn’t clash. You can hardly tell it’s a decal. It looks a little like I drew directly over the linoblock print (except I can’t make it look good just by drawing. I freeze up and don’t know what to write, and my handwriting doesn’t look natural.)
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this card looks familiar… 😉