All about things made with paper and fabric....preferably dipped in chocolate! AND some pretty pictures!
Atc. Journal52, week6. "The lost art of love letters" made by Artzyheidi
Neapolitan Pink Brown & White ATC Gallery
Explore Donetta's Beaded Treasures' 3757 photos on Flickr!
Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge
Explore Donetta's Beaded Treasures' 3757 photos on Flickr!
Posts about Artist Trading Cards written by Trish Bee
If you are into ATCs like I am, you are always looking for ways to display your ATCs. Why not create a festive altered tin to show off...
I am a procrastinator from way back so techniques can be overwhelming at times. This set of cards was a personal challenge to use only a paper trimmer, scissors, glue, blank ATCs and a magazine. There is so much inspiration in magazines, this magazine was a shopping themed magazine so lots of odds and ends. I could jazz these up with some gesso and doodling with markers. I might try that additional step on my next set of cards. I love papercrafting like this because you an do it of an evening while watching TV.
....ATCs.... Beautiful images from Lunagirl I would like to play with Simon Monday Challenge Blog - A is for... Hvala ...
Hello and welcome back to my blog... today I would like to show you some ATCs that I made for the Stampotique Facebook page ATC swap. The ...
Barb and I decided we'd like to have an ATC swap and sent each other three ATCs. It's only now that I'm uploading the images that I realise...
I believe I may be over-committed right now. Over the last day or so I've been creating ATCs like a mad woman trying to play catch up with ...
Bonjour! Hi everyone! I'm back with a set of ATCs, playing cards for my young twins Salomé and Constance, and a bookmark made by cutting up into smaller sections two large backgrounds I had fun to create with my Bister powders! Hope you will like all...
Hello all, Alison here from Words and Pictures and I'm back on the ATCs today. I have to go with two pictures straight away, because even I can't believe how different these look in sunlight... ... compared to in the shade! Either way, I love working with the Calico Craft Parts ATC blanks - even the Plain ATCs give such substance to this small format. This time I've paired them with some of the fantastic Steampunk designs - cogs and gears are always fun to play with. I started out by layering stripes of tissue tape onto the ATCs (last of the process photos, sorry - I got wrapped up in it all!). I applied a light coat of gesso to soften the look of the tape and then added DecoArt Crackle Glaze with my fingers. When it had crackled, I played with layers of Antiquing Creams and DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics, adding them and wiping back, until I was happy with the look of the backgrounds. (At times I was quite brutal with the scraping of the crackle - I really wanted a distressed, eaten-away effect.) I used a coat of Ultra Matte Varnish to seal it all in so no more of that crackle will be going anywhere. For the beautiful Steampunk Cog Butterfly (in sunlight and in shade)... ... and the Steampunk Mechanical Cogs Style 3 (in sunlight and in shade)... ... I also used the DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics... ... rubbing colours on with my fingers and wiping back... ... the same process really... ... but with some gilding wax layered in to the mix at times. A couple of rub-on words complete the look. I like how you can embed a rub-on right in to the piece so that it seems to belong there. And that's your lot... I hope you like them, and if you'd like to play with a Steampunk look, do check out all the amazing designs available by clicking on the links in the text. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I'll see you again soon. Alison x Words and Pictures
"Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again." Diane Ackerman Many of you do small format art (things like artist trading cards/ATCs, index cards/ICADS, twinchies, etc.) and I thought it would be us
I asked the super duper talented Gwen Lafleur (You should follow her on instagram. I do!) to choose a tutorial from my blog archives to put her own spin on. Check out what she did: I’ve been super inspired by all of the tutorials Julie has posted over the years, but while I was trying to choose one to put my own spin on, the Colorful Garbage ATCs from back in May 2011 really jumped out at me. Like Julie, I’m pretty good about throwing things away, but I can’t let go of my under-paper. (You know, the stuff where...
The Dusty Attic's ATC theme this month is Trinkets and Treasures so I thought I would create a treasures of the sea themed ATC. I always like to go a bit out of bounds when it comes to ATCs and this one is no different. You will notice that th
I jumped into the world of inchies yesterday - little one inch squared pieces of art - and created my first set in white for a swap. Although these are fabric pieces, I've seen many examples of paper inchies online and would like to try my hand at them next. I thought ATCs were small, but these…
Hi everyone! As I enjoyed this process so much, I am playing in my watercolor journal today again using Distress Inks with some of our new stencils. This technique creates a lovely layered background that can be used not only for art journaling also for other mixed media projects like cards, atcs or tags. Today…
