52 card pick up with texture....

Hello everyone, thanks for dropping by here.
I finally had some time to play and have fun just for myself, and so I managed to do the next 4 cards for my 52 card pickup project.

If you want to know more about this project, you can read all about it here.
I have been so busy with other things that there never was time to continue with this project, but finally today I managed to complete the next 4 cards, no 17, 18, 19 and 20. For this new set I really wanted to play with some texture in addition to the other elements.

After covering my little playing cards with strips of old book paper, I added bits of lace, cheese cloth, gauze, corrugated card etc and then covered everything with a coat of gesso.

Next followed a heart, either die cut or stenciled. Hearts as well as inspirational words and/or sayings is a theme that will run through all 52 cards in this project. For this set I then used colour sprays, mostly home made, a little background stamping and a few embellishments then finished the cards off. Below are some close ups of the individual cards:

A die cut heart covered with Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint. Coloured with Victorian Velvet and Weathered Wood sprays, made with re-inkers. Some Antique Linen Distress Stain was added to the heart. Chit chat stickers etc. finished it off and shadows were added with a Distress Marker. After spraying with my chosen colours I added a very light touch of Gesso again with my fingers, to bring out the textures a bit more still.

This heart was stenciled with Wendy Vecchi crackle paste. I also stenciled the word Passion with a mix of Coffee and Jet Black Archival Inks and coloured with Antique Linen and Walnut Stain. Both stencils are from The Crafters Workshop. Word Stickers and the new Tim Holtz Industrious Stickers plus some hand doodling, completed this one.

This was a die cut heart again, texture was just added with my finger and some texture paste plus a scrap of cheese cloth. Colours: Weathered Wood and Chipped Sapphire, computer generated text and more Industrious Stickers finished it off. Funny, how after not having used stickers for years and years, these ones just really appeal to me, The fabulous Tim Holtz just always has the edge on products... and yes, after years of resisting it, I have turned into one of his groupies, I freely admit it.....

The final one, a mix of Victorian Velvet and Antique Linen and Walnut Stain for the colours, words computer generated and finished with some ideaology bits. This little heart is a die from the Eileen Hull ATB set of dies.

Hope you like this little set of cards.

They are a bit different in style from the earlier ones, but I had great fun messing about with the textures. Hope you are having a good weekend. Thanks for taking the time to visit like always and stay inky!!