Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
This post is a little later than my regular scheduled posting, but I've got a lot going on in my life and the blog seems to always get put in the back seat when things get crazy. Today's post is a short one, let's jump in.
This is not nor will it be the last post with these fabulous furniture stamps from Altenew. I've had my eye on these stamps for a while and finally put them in my cart a month ago. I've been playing with them off and on since. Today's cards are the first two cards I made using these. The technique I used to create these simple cards was simply stamping on patterned paper and fussy cutting. I pulled my scraps out and stamped each chair onto a small pattern that seemed fitting for upholstery.
For the first card, I stamped the chair onto a scrap of striped patterned paper and a small piece of blue that matched the stripes. Then I stamped the chair on the white panel I would be building my card on and colored only the legs. I fussy cut the chair, excluding the legs from the striped paper and only the pillow from the blue. Once I cut them out I used a Momento Tuxedo Black pen to outline the white edge of my pieces.
I adhered the chair over top of the stamped image, lining it up over the legs, then added the pillow to the striped piece in the same way. I kept it simple when completing the card panel, with a simple sentiment and a bit of a shadow under my chair to ground my image, and trimmed the panel to size using the Simon Says Stamp Wonky Rectangles dies.
For the second card, I did a bit of a rinse-and-repeat. I selected a small plum patterned paper for this chair and for the sentiment I used one of the Tim Holtz Vintage Label dies. By using the label die, I was able to create the illusion of wall art on this card. I added the same shadows under my chair and trimmed the panel with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle dies.
This is only the beginning. I also have a couch that will make an appearance soon. I love these stamps because of their uniqueness. I see lots of possibilities.
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