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Well I have something a bit different to share tonight…. a canvas I made and framed… not an ATC in sight! 

This is how I started.  A 3×3 canvas board which I gessoed and then added the time Holtz tissue paper to it. All the goodies I used (except gelatos) are from the Artful days goodie box from December.  

To this I added gelatos in a mixture of lime and yellow.  I then used a stencil and baby wipe to remove some colour. 

Then I went to town on embellishments from the Artful Days goodie box… 

Once I had layered them up I adhered them and added the whole piece to some dark brown cardstock so I could frame it in the box frame I had to hand. 

I also added a sentiment from the Tim Holtz stickers I had in the stash. 

How lovely is this? And super simple to make. Loved playing with the goodies and creating this piece to go on the craft room wall. 

Happy crafting! 

Catherine 

Hello there… another couple of ATC’S made…. this time using the first prompt from the 52 week art challenge I am following… the prompt was plants. 

I took some scratch paper and doodled my plants. 

These then became my atcs! I love the splashes of lime green that the paper already had. It worked perfectly with the plant theme. 

Simple but good to do a little sketching and incorporate it into my challenge. 

Happy crafting! 

Catherine 

One more ATC this morning…. managed to get myself a little bit ahead on the challenge…

This started as a piece of cardstock I covered in black gesso and added texture paste through a stencil.

I then added the paint on the top added and built up the little cluster of textures and layers. 

So there we go… 32 ATC’S made since 1st Jan and only 333 to go!!! Wonder when I will get bored of these mini pieces of art?

Happy crafting!

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