eP Get Altered Challenge - Altered Playing Cards

 

Hello there, everyone!  I'm hosting this month's eP Get Altered Challenge.  This month I'm asking that we play with~

 Altered Playing Cards

I'm sad to say I haven't tried this before, but after this fun little adventure I'm sure I'll be going back to pull from my deck again and again!

Since it's February, the month of Valentines, I decided to make Valentine altered playing cards for all my grandchildren.   There are 8 altogether between George and myself.  Whew!  So it literally took days for this all to come together. 

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I'm going to try to take you through a few of the steps….the ones I can remember and that I photographed!  The first thing I did was sand all my cards using a sanding grip block.

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I used my Gelli plate to apply some aqua and lime acrylic paints to the cards, then I added some purple dots.  Instead of using a brayer, I just used a paint brush.  It gave more texture to the surface of the cards.  It also took longer to dry between layers.  I did this with 4 of the cards.

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I painted over them with white acrylic paint and then wiped it off with a baby wipe.  This helped the texture of the paint to show up better.  I cut a heart from a scrap of paper and used it to draw hearts onto the cards.  Then I painted them with red acrylic paint.

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For the other 4 cards, I decided to try painting directly on the cards as opposed to using the Gelli plate.  I used the same colors and also painted on the purple dots.  I spread some Studio 490 white embossing paste on 2 of the cards and let it dry to add some texture.

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Then I put on some more embossing paste using my Mini Hexagons stencil and my palette knife.  After it dried, I sprayed on several different bright Dylusions ink sprays.  When they dried I sprayed just a little of the White Linen ink spray.

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I sprayed the first 4 altered playing cards with White Linen ink spray as well.

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Here are all the cards.  (You can see I experimented a little with the bottom right one.)

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I used both pieces of my cut-out heart (the positive and the negative) as masks to stamp either onto the hearts or around the hearts.

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I did some more stamping on the cards using the Catherine Scanlon Random Shapes images and Archival jet black ink.  This second photo is taken from a different angle so that you can see the texture even under the Glossy Accents that I added to all the hearts.

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And here are some closeups:

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I simply painted the back of the cards with some white paint.  That's where I'll write my little love messages to the kids.

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Ok then!  That's my take on Altered Playing Cards.  I hope you'll decide to play along with us!  Be sure to link up on the eclectic Paperie blog  so we can all check out what you come up with!

Thanks for visiting!

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Comments

[Starla]

What a cool idea Broni!! Hmmm.....maybe I should alter some playing cards for the boys one of these days. They like to take them on their school tours (kills time on the bus!). Just something a little different!