Being inky and creating pretty stuff
Time for another couple of ATC’s for the challenge…
And here was the process…
Scratch paper with pink paints both pale and bright. then some stamping and some texture paste through a stencil.
Then some scraps of Gelli printed paper layered up and some lovely chipboard butterflies and little bits of sheet music. Of course then some doodling with black and metallic gel pens.
Cute and a bit grungey all in one, well two, pieces of art. So another two towards the pile!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Today there are a few blog posts to get through… the first of which is this about two ATC’S I made for the challenge…
They started off as a distress ink background I made a while ago with some stamps and blending of inks. Next I added some distress crayons and then removed a bit of the colour again with a baby wipe through a stencil.
I then stamped using White acrylic both some little bits of texture and the main flower image. Next I added colour and shading using Inktense pencils and pen for doodling.
Then I chose my sentiments and went for a different look for each of them.
Love both of these.
Please pop back later to see the other posts I also have in store for you!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Is a fox cuddly? It is when it looks like this!
The challenge over at Wicked Wednesday is cute and cuddly… and so I used this lovely little fox digital stamp on a layered background.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
A single ATC to share today…
My batch of cut up Gelli prints was the starting point for this one.
I added torn strips of patterned paper a bit of lacy doily and a textured heart cut out die cut. Then added the little chair digital image which came from A Day for Daisies. It’s part of a set of garden chairs but I decided to just use one of them for this.
Finished off with the flower and card candi and a little Tim Holtz stickers word and doodling with a silver pen. Then mounted it onto navy cardstock.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
25 done…. already! Wowser!
And this is for another challenge!
I love the work of Marta who posts videos under Maremismallart on you tube. She had now got a fb group called the creative cafe and the challenge this year is a playing card with a theme every week. Week 1 (we’ve started a little late in the year) is ART.
My card isn’t going to be a playing card exactly but an ATC… if my card is the right size that’s fine… but I figure I will use a mixture of bases.
This started as the scratch paper from the class I did on Tuesday. I added distress ink and some stamping using the Ghoulish Grunge stamp.
I then grabbed the woodware stamps I bought last week and used them to add the feature and sentiment. Then I added some doodling using both a black pen and my white sharpie paint pen.
I now have week 2’s card to make…. hopefully should get this done in the next day or so.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Today I have three very different ATC’S to share. These are my attempts at drawing eyes which is a prompt over in a Facebook group where there is a weekly art challenge. I picked out some pieces of paper with random bits of paint on them and drew my eyes and then tore them out.
Next I chose three ATC’S I’d cut from cardstock I have been cleaning the brayer off on. I added the doodling round the edge and then glued the eyes onto their card background. Next some more doodling and a quote for each of them handwritten.
Love how these all came out and how different to my usual work they are.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Just a quick one today using the theme from wicked Wednesday atc blog of cats/dogs. I thought I ought to follow a few challenges if I was going to keep coming up with ideas for my 365 ATC’S in the year!
I used a cute dog embellishment that I’ve had in the stash for some time and created the background using paints and strips of paper. I then added some little doodles to frame it too!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Hello. Hope you are well dear blog readers. Unfortunately I seem to have a head made of concrete as I have a cold and it’s gone straight to my sinuses. Just taking a little longer to get out of bed than normal but will be there soon!
In the meantime I have two more ATC’S to share in my year long challenge of 365 in the year.
These are two Gelli prints that I made ages ago and then cut up for using in this project.
I realised I needed some gesso on them to add some tooth to work with as I wanted to add distress crayons to add some more colour to them. I added some pink and blue to keep to the colour scheme of the purple in the background.
Next I added a doily cut up to be able of add to each of them. I love the pretty texture a doily brings to a project.
I then had a hunt through my odds and ends embellishments box and found some pictures I wanted to add.
The one on the left has come from a book of “pretty” elements that a friend gave me … perfect for this sort of project. the one on the right is cut from a magazine and I thought it was perfect colours for the ATC so on it went!
So then I stopped trying to keep them similar! I trimmed down the left hand one a bit and flicked silver paint onto it and edged it with some ink. I also stamped around the edge with the Timeless textures flourish and some Perfect Plum ink. Then I used an Inktense pencil and some water to outline the image and frame it. I unfortunately then flooded the paper with water as I pressed the spray bottle in he wrong way and the lid came off! oops!
Once it had dried out I added the sentiment, a little embellishment and an organza ribbon to the topper. Then mounted it onto a pink base.
Onto the other one. I added some Inktense, a piece of pink cardstock and then some transparent glossy texture paste through a stencil.
Once this was dry I could add more colour by using distress inks and a blending tool. Again I found this quote and added this and flower to the card.. then trimmed it down a little and added some doodling and mounted it on pink card like the other one.
Love how these two came together and both look similar but different at the same time!
Two more done!
Happy crafting !
Catherine
On Tuesday I held a crafting session at mine with some friends and we made some ATC’S… here are my makes from the night…
I love how all three turned out… similar but not the same to the samples. Very nice.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Today I don’t have any atcs to share with you… instead I have a page I inserted into my Dylusions journal and decided to do an ocean inspired page. Why ocean inspired? Well I’ve joined a Facebook group where there is a prompt each month… and this month the prompt is ‘ocean’ … so this seemed like a good idea to go for when I only had about 10 minutes play time…
This was what the page looked like at the beginning… lots of wiping off of stencils and brushes. A perfect starting point for a watery background.
And this is how it finished…
I added more paint and some painty stamping using the Indigo Blu stamps … then added the sentiment and the embossing of the fish and the seaweed. Then I finished with the little dots of liquid pearls and some gilding wax around the edge.
A quick and easy page markers.. so nice to get back into my journal.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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