"Luck of The Draw" Inspirational Mixed Media Cards

Mixed Media Inspirational Cards By Sherri Welser

Every Morning do you feel lucky ? Take the luck of the draw and see what inspirational card you choose for the day! All it takes is one inspirational word or quote to change your whole day! Have fun creating these inspirational mixed media cards.....you can choose your favorite words or quotes and add them to the deck! This is a beautiful and creative way to add some heart felt meaning into your life!

Supplies

• A deck of ordinary playing cards

• White paint

• Gelli plate

• Brayer

• Perfect Paints Shimmering Acrylic Paints - your choice of colors!

• Perfect Paints Perfect Glaze Medium

• Misc paper ephemera ( quotes, words, decorative elements)

• Ephemera - I used Dina Wakley ( Typed Ledgers) & 49 and Market Curators Meadow

• Misc stamps with quotes

• Stamp Pads color of your choice

• Gold gel pen

• Mod Podge

Here is the Gelli plate and the Shimmering Acrylic Paints all ready to go!

Paint all the cards front and back with the white paint

Apply paint to the gelli plate with the brayer mix colors.. then add the playing card face down

Adding Textures to Perfect Paints Shimmering Acrylic paints using your paintbrush!

Here are the cards all painted with Perfect Paints and ready to get embellished!

I love adding rubber stamps and paper ephemera over the Perfect Paints!

When dry I added Perfect Paints Glaze medium to give them a satin sheen

Closeup of finished inspirational cards

Here are some fun examples of the cards finished!

More examples of the finished cards - check out the sheen on the Shimmering Acrylics!

Close up of finished cards - the texture of Shimmering Acrylics is amazing!

Luck of the Draw.. Which One will you choose? They are ALL Lucky!

I hope you enjoy creating these fun inspiration cards!