We have an ongoing swap on one of my groups - postcards with raised letters. I thought I would give "raised" a bit of a twist and created a postcard where you raise the N using a ribbon!! Very cool technique I have in the past used with tags and cards. I created the front on blue cardstock by first drawing wavy lines in pencil and tracing them using a fine tip black sharpie. I punched the hole for my ribbon, drew in my letters, filled them in and then zentangled the rest of the spaces. I added the foil elements with a bit of a black strip of cardstock to set them off from the artwork. I created my back on green cardstock - just postcard elements hand drawn along with my swap information.
Next, I created my N. I started with a small piece of alcohol ink background that was the right colour, hand wrote "never" all over the front and then hand drew the N and filled it in. I ran a large black marker around the edge just to give it a bit of definition. I then created the U I needed to hold my N between both layers and glued the front to the back using double sided tape which left a pocket in the middle which will hide my N until someone pulls on the ribbon. As you pull on the ribbon the N element slowly rises!! Very cool!! You can find a tutorial for the pull up mechanism
here on
SplitCoast Stampers. It will be off to my partner in the next few days!!
Therese
