Farewell Summer

I'm sorry that I've been such a bad blogger for the last few months.  I've been working on various assemblage art but have not done as much art as usual.  I think my muse went on vacation!  I'm pleased to say the wheels are rolling again and I'm back to slapping around inks and paints with abandon again.

I produced my final three ATCs for a swap group I belong to and thought I'd post two of

them here.

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside......

 I loved making this, it was so much fun.  The lower portion of the card is base coated with sand medium, and then painted with Titan Buff paint.  The water is water soluble pastels and the sky is distress ink with a mask applied to create the cloud.
The beach hut is a wooden embellishment I found in my stash and the jandals (flip flops) are made from shrink plastic.  I found the idea on the net and copied :)

The final ATC below is stamped and painted and then dipped in UTEE and then in gold and silver flakes.  These were then rubbed back to remove all the loose flake before being redipped in UTEE.

Thanks for taking a look and sorry it's been so long!

A Bevy of ATC's

I'm a member of an ATC swap group and recently did a swap in the theme of 'Green', another with the theme of 'Keys'.  I finally did a swap with any theme.  These tiny pieces of art are sometimes difficult for me and challenge me to be simple.
They are all very different ATCs with many products so I won't go through how they are all made.  If anyone would like to know you can always drop me an email :)

Here are the nine ATC I made this month.

ATC Green Flowers

ATC Green Leaves

ATC Green Bow

ATC Forgot my key

ATC Queens Key

ATC Bronze Keys

ATC Super Star Diva

ATC Whats the time

ATC Essence

Thinking of Spring

Today at Take a Word they challenged us with 'Botanical s'.  It seems so long since there were beautiful spring flowers, so here's one I created.

Time to smell the flowers

 This is an ATC (2.5" x 3.5") backed on to thick card stock.  The background is plain honey coloured paper that I stamped using Versamark and the polka dot stamp from Hero Art, using Bridal Shower embossing powder before heating.

The small framed stamp is actually a large stamp with four different flowers that I cut down to a single bloom and coloured using Inkensils.  Once it was coloured I stamped over the image with a crackle stamp using Archival ink in Pale Ochre.  I wanted the image to have some gloss so I painted over it with Golden Gel Medium in Gloss and left it to dry.

Across the bottom is a strip of Tim Holtz washi tape and  the text was 'Sweet Tulip' on my computer.  The faux bow and the brad were bits from my stash.

Thanks so much for looking, it's always appreciated

Rusty Tin Signs - How Distressing!

I love playing with distress, grungy and faux techniques and have the opportunity to make a series of cards for an ATC swap this month.  What better chance to record the making of at least one card on video.  This will be a series of 3 ATC with the theme name 'How Distressing'

The first ATC is called Rusty Tin Signs and is painted with Americana and Traditions brand paints in Butter, Mint Julep Green, Burnt Umber and Quinacridone Gold.

I'm feeling a little distressed today Part 1

I made the key with scraps of polymer clay and the two tiny safety pins are from my stash of embellishments.

I'm still not good with recording and editing video, but you can check out the video on YouTube.

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment, it's always appreciated.

Roll up, roll up, the circus is in town

A few weeks ago I created a couple of ATCs for a swap in the theme of Demented Circus.  I found it really difficult to do a circus theme and it took me longer than I expected to complete them.

That's Ms Clown to you!

The backgrounds were created on heavy weight white cardstock and sprayed with bubble gum pink Dylusions spray then stamped with Archival Magenta and a Tim Holtz stamp.  I applied some white paint in circles and lines before adding some small reflective elements to her hat.
The yellow circles were stamped with Archival Magenta on white cardstock sprayed with a lemon yellow spray.  I went over the lettering with a Sakura pen in clear to give it a bit of bling.

I am having lots of fun making and swapping ATCs and inchies, so you may see some more in the coming weeks.  If anyone would like to do a swap, please let me know.