Inspiration deck - part four

If you're just tuning in,

go back to part one to see what the heck I'm talking about.

Now that I've got 52 painted, glued and dried cards, it's time to add the inspiration.

I keep a file of quotes on my computer (that I started during last year's inspiration deck) so I had plenty of good quotes, affirmations and inspiring phrases to choose from.

I tried a few different ways of putting the words on paper

I hand stamped letters on paper, cut out the individual words and glued them on the card (adding some rubber stamps for good measure)

this one was stamped straight on the card (but had some spacing issues as you can see.  and I was gentle with myself about it.)

 

 

This one is handwritten with a sharpie: 

 This one is computer generated, printed, cut and glued:

All of those things are somewhat time/labor intensive,

so in the interest of efficiency, I settled on this technique.

I printed all my quotes on tracing paper:

 

and cut them and glued them on the cards:

 since the paper is transparent, the background shows through:

 Then it was time to embellish them a bit.

To help the tracing paper blend into the card better, I colored with my neo-color watercolor crayons and smudged them with my fingers

 I used various bottle caps as stamps:

 

 

I used my favorite thrift store find as a stamp:

 I used regular rubber stamps and an ink pad:

 This one already seemed to have enough going on, so I added nothing.

So there you have it.

A full deck done in two sittings.

It could also easily be done in 5-10 minutes a day for a few weeks if that's what your schedule allows.

(roll one layer of paint, come back tomorrow.  roll another layer of paint, come back tomorrow)

This is such a fun project and I hope you see from my photo-intensive posts that it can be really easy to complete.

and to quote our swap hostess, Jessica,

Go here for all the details on how to sign up.

Hope to see one of your cards in the deck I get back!