FREE Vintage Halloween Images On My Facebook Art Page

If you're looking to make some fun Halloween themed art, you might want to check out my Facebook art page, where I have posted a bunch of vintage images that are so fun to use.

Here's the link:

Free Vintage Halloween Images

As always, if you use these images in something you sell, I would appreciate it if you cite your source (these come from my own collection).  And I love, love, love to see your work.

Take care, my friends.

Joanna

More Easy Greeting Cards With Gelli Prints

Just a quick note to show you four more greeting cards I made with prints of my original Gelli plate pages.

Here's the original piece of Gelli art I did many months ago.  It's finished size was 3" X 5."  I scanned it so I could  print it in different sizes and make other things with the image.  

The images used for these greeting cards, were sized at about 3.75" square so that I could print four to a page (see image below).

Image scanned and sized to print four on a piece of 8.5 X 11 copy paper

Each image was mounted on a different color of card stock and then adhered to the greeting card blank, which had been embellished with a strip of colorful paper, recycled from my pile of bits and pieces.  The greeting cards are 5.5" squares.

Easy peasy and just like that I have a set of four one-of-a-kind cards.  I'm thinking they'd make a nice gift pack for someone.

Quick & Easy Gelli Print Greeting Cards

Hello everyone!  Hope you've had a great summer.  I've been taking a break from the blogging to enjoy the fabulous weather and recharge the batteries.  As I ease back into doing blog posts I thought you'd like to see my process for creating some simple greeting cards with my Gelli plate prints.

While wading through my huge supply of art supplies, it dawned on me that (1) I have way too many greeting card blanks; and (2) I have always loved making handmade greeting cards so why the heck hadn't I made any with the bazillions of Gelli prints I have?  
So, here's what I did.  The package of card blanks had four different vivid colors that I thought would go well with my Gelli prints.  The cards come flat so a few seconds with the bone folder and I have some great 4" X 5.5" blank cards to work with.

Blank Greeting Cards

 Then I took some photocopies of my Gelli plate prints that I had been playing with in MS Publisher, and cut rectangles about 3.5" X 5" and with a glue stick adhered them to the cards.  This size gave me a nice border of the card showing around the Gelli print of about a quarter inch.  With black permanent marker and my favourite white Signo Uniball pen, I did some doodling to add interest.

Photocopies Of Gelli Plate Prints

 

Greeting Card With Gelli Plate Print (Enhanced With Doodling)

Greeting Card With Gelli Plate Print (Enhanced With Doodling)

Greeting Card With Gelli Plate Print (Enhanced With Doodling)

I decided to keep these cards simple because I liked the backgrounds so much and didn't want to take a way from them too much by adding a lot of elements on top of them.  In some cases, I only added a simple sentiment.  In others, I added some more Gelli plate prints or stamped images.

Finished Greeting Cards

Finished Greeting Cards

Finished Greeting Cards

I love how they turned out and how the bright cardstock complements the Gelli prints.  And what a quick and easy project!

I think I will have to make more of these!

Cheers!
Joanna

HOW TO USE Vintage Images In Your Art Journal Pages

My artsy friend, Kristie Sloan, over at Artful Adventures, has some great ideas on her site for those who are new to art journaling.

Above is a photo from one of her posts that incorporates my vintage beach images.

Here's the link to her post:


Artful Adventures Tutorial

VINTAGE BLACK & WHITE CLIPART on my Facebook Page

Hello all;

I've just posted a small collection of vintage black & white clip art on my Facebook page.  You are welcome to visit the page and download these images to add to your own collection.  I'll be adding to this photo album from time to time, so feel free to check back to pick up the latest images.

Here's the link:

Vintage Black & White Clip Art

Enjoy!

Etsy Treasury Featuring My Art

I am thrilled to be included in this great Etsy treasury entitled "And the BLUES Run Through It."

https://www.etsy.com/ca/treasury/NTYyOTY2NHwyNzIyMDIwNTE3/and-the-blues-run-through-it

THREE WINNERS of the CANADA DAY GIVEAWAY

Thanks so much everyone, I really appreciate all your support as always.

The winners of the three CD collections are:  

Cheryl McKenney
Coleen Frank
Su Roberts

Please email me at:  joannabanana@shaw.ca with your snail mail address or you can send me a Facebook message with that info, by visiting my page at:  www.facebook.com/JoannaGrantArt.

Cheers to all and be sure to check back for the next promotion August 1.

Much love to you all!
Joanna