Printing on Vellum Technique

I'm feeling a little bit better today and decided to make my cards for the March OSA Koi Swap.  Last Week I asked my friend Ignacio the owner and graphic designer at Nicecrane if he had a Koi images, When he replied to me it was "I do now"!  He had worked up a new set of Japanese Koi digital stamps! This gave me 5 images to choose from !

 

 

When I do these swap I always try to make my cards unique, we all do , that is half the fun of it!  Two months ago I did another Koi swap and I wanted this one to look very different from the last one, but I loved the technique so I did want to repeat that!

 

This was January's card:

 

                                        Koi on Vellum over a Nicecrane texture image

 

For this months card

I did another  vellum printing overlay  - very simple but very beautiful!  The key with this is having an excellent graphic to print out, these Koi are perfect  for this technique!

 

 

I printed out on 29# vellum.  You can see the detail on the vellum here, One thing to remember when printing on vellum: It takes a little longer for the paper to dry.  The vellum surface is very dry and it takes a bit longer for the ink to set in the paper.

 

 

 

I then printed two "texture images" from Nicecranes' Beautiful Japanese Texture background set.

you can see where I was running out of ink on the print on the left - that's okay, it looked lovely!

 

 

I Used a little ATG tape to adhere the layers together and a coat of this shimmery nail polish to give the scale a wet look 

 

 

You can see how beautiful the background looks under the fish!  I added a little distress inks to the edges for a little more depth.

 

 

 

I die cut an oval in my card stock and added some embellishments

 

Here are the finished cards!

 

 

 

 

I also used several of the Koi images printed on regular paper to make into ATC for another time, they print up beautiful on regular paper!!

 

I hope you give this overlay technique a try sometime it is really beautiful and not time or supply intensive!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Ginny M

 

 

 

Japanese texture backgrounds



Japanese Prints