In keeping with the current theme at Sunday Postcard Art this weekend… a handpainted, drippy, watercolour background which I have stamped on and then digitized. I used poster edges as my filter of choice today and then added the strong (Dover images) butterfly brush:
Could it be magic?
Of course now I have Barry Manilow in my head for the morning at least! Lol!!
I am now going to get dressed, have breakfast and finish off making my first art journal – “Kelly Kilmer style!” I know that I shall have plenty to write and collage in the coming months, as great changes are afoot at home… 😉
Altered Art & Stuff... 
JudyNZ
/ July 18, 2010Lovely colourful card, Rosie, love the butterfly brush!
taluula
/ July 18, 2010Oh you have me hooked now with the changes afoot at your home. Your postcard is beautiful Rosie, such rich and wonderful colours. Bravo.
Sandy
/ July 18, 2010So ao beautiful Rosie.
Magical.
Mandy
/ July 18, 2010wonderful postcard
Bev
/ July 18, 2010Beautifully done, Rosie, and it conveys magic very well. Can’t wait to hear about the changes on the home front. It sounds like they’re positive ones!
Cindy McMath
/ July 18, 2010Wow Rosie, this is spectacular! Love your background, and the addition of the white images is stunning and very magical indeed.
Cindy 🙂
Darlene
/ July 18, 2010What a wonderful and creative postcard!!!
Oh no, now I’m going to have that song on my mind now.
inge bekaert
/ July 18, 2010hello Rosie,
thanks for your comment on Pinkepinke 🙂
The stencil was one I bought in the UK !
In april my friend and I came to the craftshow in London : what a treat !!!
One of the last things I grabbed there was the flower frenzy stencil of The crafters workshop. They had several and in different sizes (9×9 and 12 x 12) and I’m sorry I didn’t bought more of them.
The stencil is really thin and works perfect with paint, but with ink it’s so easy to do. I used this stencil in several of the “about love” round robin books and I try to use it every time in a different way.
Have a look for their stencils here : http://www.thecraftersworkshop.com. There you can see who’s selling them in the UK.
I love your background you used here : dripping is fun ! I learned this at the online workshop of Julie Prichard past summer.
I love it to use handmade backgrounds in digital collages.
I also like the postcardcollage you show in one of your previous posts. I did sewing a few times on paper, but had some trouble sewing on painted canvas. I wanted to do a freestyle stitching but that didn’t work very good. The canvas didn’t want to move under my machine 😦 Maybe I used a wrong setting or the wrong needles…
I can sew if I use my regular setting and do almost straight lines. Do you have more experience with this ?
greetings from belgium
Inge
Lori Saul
/ July 18, 2010Beautiful and enchanted – very creative design and color!
Jackie
/ July 18, 2010I love the colours, the stripes and swirls and general composition of your postcard, Rosie. I also look forward to seeing your work in your journal.
Mind you, I hadn’t thought of the Barry Manilow song until I read your post, so I won’t be thanking you when I am singing it all evening!!!
Sue Davies
/ July 18, 2010This is lovely Rosie, I love your colours and your black swirls (I don’t know if they are stamped or if this is part of your digitalisation – is that a word lol) x
Rosie
/ July 19, 2010Heehee! The swirls are stamped on Sue… and digitisation is a weird word, right? ‘o)
Karen
/ July 19, 2010I love your magical butterflies!
Love that song too – heehee!
Kx
Kris Dickinson
/ July 23, 2010Beautiful work Rosie!