I created some inky hearts inspired by Denis Love’s tutorial “Painting Sacred Hearts - Inspired by the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi” on Skillshare. In the class she mounts them on rough watercolor paper in rows for framing. I decided to turn mine into greeting cards. And because I hate to waste anything, I cut 10 diamond shapes from the scraps of paper leftover from the hearts and turned those into cards as well. All three sets will be STS this year.
Process pics:
At first I tried making bubbles with the acrylic ink. That failed miserably. The ink is too heavy to keep delicate bubble shapes (even when thinned with water) and just collapses into a puddle.
So I just dabbed acrlic ink onto my watercolor paper and used a straw to push and mix it in interesting ways.
Denise love uses a gorgeous mica paste for her gold details. I didn’t have that, so I tried mixing texture paste mixed with gold ink. That failed miserably, the white paste dulling the gold to a tan color. So I used the gold ink with stencils.
When dry, I used a heart stencil and diamond punch to cut out the shapes, then glued them to gray card bases, wrote “You Shine” with gold Posca, and then outlined each with a .05mm fine liner to help the letters stand out.