More playing with my acrylic paints and watching you tube videos. It was good fun and getting me back into painting again. I painted it in my large art journal, then took a photo, shrunk it and printed onto photo card, and this time to make a card I put it inside a white aperture card.
The last few months I have been concentrating on the garden and keeping it alive during the hot weather. Lately we have been having the conservatory fixed so all the plants that lived there had to be kept on every available table in the house so I didn’t have access to any table. I finally got my table back and had a go at some neurographic art. There are quite a few you tube videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKSOUV7U8U that show you how to do it and although there is an actual therapeutic method, I just did it for fun.
This is the painting, and I took a photo of it and shrunk it to make a greetings card with a black border. The card is white but as my scanner wasn’t working I had to use my phone camera to photograph it and the card wouldn’t sit flat so I just cropped the white of the card out. 
I have been getting exasperated with my yupo paper and alcohol inks last week. Sometimes the ink would drop into circular blobs and spread really well but other times I would just get a blob that didn’t spread at all. I see I will have to experiment a bit more. Sometimes I would get a blob that spread in the centre of the paper but if I used the same ink towards the edge then it wouldn’t spread. I was very careful not to touch the edges with my fingers as I know that can prevent the ink spreading. I tried using the reverse side of the yupo but that wasn’t great. This photo isn’t great – the birthday card is much brighter in real life. It was good fun though.
Turned the card to portrait for this encaustic landscape and I used the more traditional earthy colours again.
This card looks a little bit like the Aurora Borealis over some hills with a bit of reflection in the sea or a loch. I had a touch of silver wax left in my stylus and this mixed with the brown when I was defining the edge of the coast and I like how it turned out.
The sea and sky in this card in real life are much more aqua coloured but neither scanner nor camera would pick out the colours correctly. I normally do the rocks in ponds with dragonflies flying around but this time I wanted it to look more like the sea so I added some birds (seagulls).
I tried to scan just the painting but the scanner didn’t pick up the neon colours so I put it into the card and took a digital photo instead and these colours look almost like the real painting. You still don’t see the subtle shading but the colours are mostly there.
A birthday card for my other niece using brusho for the background and some text stamps and a bird on a twig stamp.
It may not look like your average wedding card but this card is for my niece who has just got married to a lovely guy and I know this is more her style. They look more like elves than fairies as they don’t have wings but I would say they are soul mates.
I have made a few cards along the same theme. Just by using different colours of Brusho with a matching matt you can achieve very different looks using the same stamp.