Monday, November 7, 2011

Postcard Swap at City Crafter

I decided to try something different this week, and signed up for the Postcard Swap at City Crafter. Everyone's postcards are so gorgeous! I had tons of fun making mine, which I'm also entering into their Postcard challenge.
I won this funky rubber stamp at the Spotlight Challenge, and I've been itching to use it! I liked the idea of a movie-flyer postcard from Classic Hollywood. I stamped it with StazOn & colored it with watercolor pencils. I crazy-stitched it on my sewing machine (sew much fun!), and sprayed both sides with a Satin Finish coating. I added a little lace that I sprayed with orange glimmer mist.
The back:

I made the back in PhotoShop, using mostly a new-to-me form of digi stamps, "PhotoShop Brushes." These are collections of images that you load into your PhotoShop brush presets. I learned about these through a link at Graphics Fairy to Pretty Procrastination. You have to check out that post, it has lots of good info, links, and a promise of many more files! See my supply list below for links to the image sets I used here.

I "aged" the postcard with Antique Linen distress ink.  I added some "noise" in PhotoShop to the lines, text & Postcard sentiment to give more of an aged look too. The "Air Mail" stamp was colorized in PhotoShop, but I added the color to the sentiment with a watercolor pencil.

Supplies:
Postcard Banner digi stamp from Tidbits Trinkets
PhotoShop Brushes: Stamp Brushes set by Alex Duka, Handwriting Brush by obsidiandawn
Tools: Fiskars papercutter, HP printer & ink, Adobe PhotoShop Tim Holtz paper distresser & ink, Singer sewing machine, ProvoCraft corner punch, ZipDry glue
Paper: Hammermill
Embellishments: rubber stamp from stash, Loew Cornell watercolor pencils, Coats & Clark thread


Update: Linda enjoyed the package I sent her as well! Be sure to check out all the final swaps on the City Crafter Party blog.

8 comments:

  1. That is awesome, I love those stitching, thanks for joining us this week for the challenge and the swap at CCCB!

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  2. Fantastic project. Look great. Hugs lin

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  3. Absolutely fantastic! Love the lace and the crazy stitching!

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  4. Wow - that's pretty craftastic!

    Thanks for sharing.

    Thanks, too, for visiting my blog. :)

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  5. So glad you could join us this week at CCCB ... this is a fabulous creation ... love the idea of the movie flyer ... many thanks!

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  6. Your postcard is beautiful.. Thanks so much for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  7. lovely! Thank you for playing along at CCCB!

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