A Card for Merethis

Before I get to the card for Merethis, let's take a look at the shawl I bought The Volkert.

It's a 100% cotton 60" x 80" jacquard woven tapestry from personalthrows.com.

It is so pretty!!

And it has a rainbow fringe!!

And my favorite Tenniel drawing.  I'm in love.

Meanwhile, this is what Merethis looked like at the party.

But my Cheshire had lamented that I had thrown away my last handmade hat card!

Then last night, Milli told me she missed my handmade hat card, too.

So that was enough to get me going.

So I printed it again.

Then I stained it with a layer of brown food coloring with water.

Then I stained it with a layer of black food coloring with water.

Then I washed it out with water and baked it to dry.

Then I colored in the printing with some inky black markers.

Then I trimmed it down and burned the edges with a lighter.

I glued it to a backing card to make it stronger and glazed it three times.

Finally, I painted the edges in black acrylic paint.

And it turned out like this.

Merethis & Me