Oh have I got an easy art card / mixed media playing card project for you!
How would you like to try your hand at working with Sea Glass and combining it with corrugated cardboard
In part three of the “3, 6, 9” series for “52 pickup” the focal points that I’m using are corrugated cardboard and blue Sea Glass.
Using glass is always a challenge, especially when creating a mixed media playing card, because it’s so small. But as long as your playing card is thick enough to support the glass and there are no sharp edges, you’ll be fine. If you have very thin playing cards, check out the free download below for bonus tips including working with thin playing cards.
Blue was going to be my primary palette for this project, so the blue Sea Glass worked really well for this easy art card. Using a combination of Phthalo Blue acrylic paint (we all know what happens when I touch Phthalo Blue) and Turquoise shimmer misters with touches of Raw Umber to neutralize some areas and the card is just layered with such beautiful variations of blue.
If you haven’t tried them already, here are the two other cards in the series.
I Created This - 3 of Hearts
How to Use an Altered Playing Card to Create an Artist Trading Card
Take Action - 6 of Hearts
Here’s an Altered Playing Card Tutorial so You Can Create an Artist Trading Card Featuring What You Love
Easy Art Card / Mixed Media Playing Card
What did you think?
What are some other types of embellishments do you love as an alternative to using Sea Glass?
Hi my name is Isabel and I love your art
Hi Isabel, thank you for the lovely comment.
I wouldn’t say I am truly awake (just got up), but my eyes are open enough to see that I like these cards!
I’m sending you a virtual cup of green tea (or coffee if you don’t like green tea). Are you able to find sea glass where you are?
Hey Tonny… Joe picked your name for the giveaway! congrats girl, hope you like the two ATC’s. I already have your mailing address from the swaps, so I’ll do a double check by personal email and it will go in the mail on Monday!
loving the sea glass
Thank you Dawn!
I love watching you create! I’ve learned so much from you! Thank you!
Thank you Maggie… glad you are learning and hope you get to creating 🙂
Love the colors and the technique. Can’t wait to try it out.
glad you are loving it Laine!
so very inspiring…you are so amazingly talented!
Thanks Ann for the lovely comment.
I just love making ATC’s and have always wanted to do a swap. You site has made it so easy for me to do both. Your beautiful art and creative ideas continue to inspire me. Thank you for sharing.
Glad to hear it Simone! thank you for the lovely comment and that you are enjoying the whole process.
Wow! I love it. Where can I find sea glass? It is so beautiful.
Glad to hear you love it! The sea glass I’m using was found at Michaels in the mosaic section. They had so many nice things.
Beautiful, I’ll have to have a go at that style, I have some lovely sea glass a friend of mine collected from a beach here in Victoria, although it is more of a misty green.
misty green class is really pretty too… hmmm now you’ve inspired me, I have some of that colour too! Thank you for the idea! Let’s see what we can create together.
You know that I love blue —- and I love these ATCs. Awesome!!
Thanks Annie… gotta love those deep blues.
Great cards I’m afraid I don’t have any sea glass but I’ll find something I can use
you can use tinted plastic/acrylic or even coloured glass bottles at a thrift shop, wrap them in a towel and hit with a hammer. Edges will be sharp, so sanding with emery cloth or tumbling them will make them safer to handle. You might find something at the $store as well.
Watching you is a great way to relax after a day chasing my team around putting the flat in order after 5 months hospital stay! Gorgeous results!
Thanks Nora…I didn’t know you were in the hospital for 5 months.. WOW!!!! hope you’re all better.
I so totally related to your comment about not being perfect. Trying to be perfect stopped me from delving into art. I thought I needed to be perfect with every line, word, color, etc. When I discovered multi media, wow, so freeing, no wonder I love it so much. My motto this year is “let it go”, it so fits into all aspects of my life. I’m so glad you explained what you meant by being truly awake.
I think you just came up with your theme for our “anything goes” swap in March! I’m so glad you were able to connect with being truly awake… it hit me when I created the card that this is what I was meant to be doing… not making art to make money, but making money to make art to share with people 🙂
I’m a beginner so thanks for the very clear steps and the supply list. Love this card!
Glad you like it!
I love the colour. Where could I get sea glass. I am going to try it. You are inspirational!!!!
Thank you Kathleen. Joe found the SeaGlass at Michaels. It’s in the section where all the mosaic tiles are.
Thanks for taking part of the giveaway everyone, Joe picked Tonny’s name. There are new giveaways next week so stay tuned!
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