Who's ready for eggnog and stories of Santa's reindeer? I am, but I do make Christmas cards all year long so I'm not stressed at the end of the year. today I have a Christmas-themed postcard ready to mail to the North Pole with a little steampunk twist! Follow alomg amd see how I created this postcard.
I began by stamping the reindeer from Steampunk'd Christmas Holiday Stamp Set in alcohol friendly ink. I colored the image with alcohol markers from my stash. I colored my reindeer traditionally but, if you look closely, you can see the gears around the reindeer's neck. Next month's theme is Steampunk, so I will delve into it more in September.
I stamped the reindeer again on a piece of masking paper before fussy cutting it out. With masking paper, you can do all sorts of techniques. Today, I'll just be protecting my stamped image.
Here's the fussy cut mask over the stamped image on the panel. It's best to cut right on the line of the image when your fussy cutting a mask to decrease any halo you might get from ink blending or other ways of putting down color over the mask.
Here I ink blended Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire, and villainous Potion onto the panel, then splashed with watered down white gouache. I let the ink and gouache dry completely before removing the mask.
Panel after removing the masking paper.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of a few steps and I'm sorry! I'll describe what I did. I first cut out the panel with a large stamp die from my stash, offsetting the reindeer to the left. I matted the panel onto an A2 piece of white cardstock. I wrote 50 cents with a Memento ink pen. I used the postmark from Steampunkd Christmas Holiday Stamp Set, and a cancellation stamp from my stash was used. When do you start making Christmas cards...all year long or all at once?
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