ATC backgrounds

If you are a subscriber of my youtube channel (if your not you should be. :D) You know I've been making ATC backgrounds for a swap next year. Yes I know a year away. but I'm doing it for an event here in Vegas, Pita Fest. And during the fest there will be some swaps going on, ATC's, tags and photo mats & inserts (one of Kathy King of paper phenomenon's creations) I'm participating in the tags and ATC swap.I don't know how many are doing the swaps, but I'm making a bunch.

Like all the other backgrounds I did, I start with stuff we get in the mail from Casinos here in vegas. On one side I glued napkins, the other side, book paper. then I gesso both sides. From there I use different colors of craft paints. and stencils. In this batch of the video I did, I used DecoArt craft paints. Also used Various stencils. The video of me doing these will be out June 11. :)

Americana paints used:

Margarita

Citron Green

Bahama Blue

Calypso Blue

Peacock teal

Dragon Fruit

Lemon Yellow

Snow White

Lamp Black

Stencil used:

Americana stencil: Dangles

prima stencil. I don't know the name of it.

Dina Wakley: Spinners

UmWowStudio Pegged stencil

Andy Skinner: Alphabet spaghetti and Snake's web

Word background cut file from Silhouette design store

ATC parade

I had accumulated some more ATC starters again. So I took some magazine images to finish them off. The stickers are from Cosmo Cricket Tint Text.

Sm;)e

I'm still on an ATC kick. I have a lot of starters. I did 2 more yesterday.

Yesterday I was playing with black cardsock 65 lbs from Recollections and my Dylusion paints.After seeing the new 8x8 square black Dylusion journal and how cool her paints looked on the black paper, I wanted to see how they would look on the back cardstock I have in my stash. The paint look so cool on the black cardstock.

I used the Harlequin stencil from UmWowStudio and the Crushed grape and Vibrant Turquoise. While that was drying, I took one of the mini Polaroids Chipboard from UmWowStudio and with my pallet knife I used some DecoArt white gesso on it. I then used my fingers to make some texture and set it to the side to dry. Didn't take long. After it dried I used Black Soot distress ink pad and rubbed it on the chipboard. I took my waterbrush to it. I wanted the texture to show more so I went over it again with the black soot.

I stamped the Rabbit wearing Sunglasses from Viva Las VEgaStamps! and stamped him on white cardstock in Black Archival inkpad. One of his lens on his sunglasses didn't stamp clean, so I used a black pen and colored it in. I used Neo Color 2's and painted his sunglasses, nose, and inside ears. I took the chipboard piece and glued it onto the cardstock with Aleene's tacky. then trimmed the paper. then glued the Polaroid to the ATC. I edge the Polaroid in Lamp (ebony) Black craft paint by Americana. I rounded the corners with my WRMK corner rounder. I stamped the Smile stamp on the ATC in Black Archival ink pad. I then back the atc on to cereal weight chipboard.

This background was a cut off from a journal page I did in Art Journal class. The possess I did for this mini Polaroid is the same thing I did to the one above. But I used Picked Raspberry and spun sugar Distress ink pads. then used my water brush to blend. Then I used Black soot to pick up the texture of the gesso. I stamped the Flamingo and Skinny Girl on white cardstock with black Archival ink pad. Colored the Flamingo with Neo Color 2's and colored the skinny girl with my Koi watercolors. Glued the Polaroid to the paper then cut trimmed.  Edge with the Lamp black craft paint. Glued to the ATC. Stamped the Sm;)e stamp on the the background. Used the corner rounder on the corners.

For the Birds!

I was RAK'ed stamped images of Bird crazy from Tim Holts. they were on Water Color paper. Last night I colored them using Neo Color 2's and Prisma color penciled. I then Made Atc's with them While I had the stack of starters on my desk.

The background on this one is a napkin and a flower magazine image.I used pop dots to attach him t the ATC.

This one and the one below are from a journal page I did in art journal class last month, after I cut it down to size to fit in my journal. Used a stencil and Brushed Pewter Distress crackle paint. The hat he is wearing is a Silhouette file.

He's wearing another hat from that same file. 

These last 2 are also a off cute from a journal page I did from art journal class from earlier this month. This little guy I gave him a coffee to go cup that i cut on my Cameo from the Silhouette store. 

 I painted his hat with craft paint. He's the only one that I glued right on to the ATC.

ATC's galore!

I had a stack of ATC starters. They were starting to mount up so I took some of them and finished them. None of them took very long to do.

This Started was book text and a stencil with black craft paint. (similar to the ATC I did for a VLVS! challenge last month.) I did add some drips with Glimmer Glam in Be Positive by Tater Angels. I added a wood veneer bat that I painted black and a magazine image and added a crown. The stickers are from Tim Holtz Chit chat Holiday stickers.

This started was a from A journal page I did in art Journal class back in Sept. The paint For the background is from Dina Wakley. The only thing I added to this ATC was Distress Crackle paint in Picket Fence through a Stencil. I learned this technique from watching Aaron of Imperfect Impulses. Love it. I added a Tiny Text Sticker from Cosmo Cricket.

This one I did the background a long time ago. I Think its Lindy's stamp Gang Sprays. Don't ask me what color, I don't remember. lol The image is from Life Magazine book. There was a little boy uin the picture, but I think he got cold feet and left. lol The sentiment is from Dylusions.

Finally This started is on photo paper and alcohol inks. Another magazine image that was on my desk. The crown is from Maya Road and the sentiment is another Tiny Text by Cosmo Cricket 

Someone is watchin you ATC

over on the Viva Las VegaStamps! blog they have a new inspiration board challenge up for August. Lots of cool things to pull from the board.

 

I made an ATC for the challenge.

I started with a page from a dictionary. Next I used black craft paint and a stencil I cut out with my Cameo from Monica's Creative Room. After I put the paint on and it dried a little I did wipe some of the paint off so you can see more of the dictionary paper.  I used some white tissue paper and stamped the eyes looking left and the Whimsical boy using black Archival ink pad by Ranger. I glued them onto the ATC with Matte Medium. After that dried I did color the boy a bit with. He blended in to much into the atc. So I colored his skin and popped the stripes out with white color pencil. On a piece of scrap paper I wrote "Someone is watchin you". Cut the words apart and glued them on. Outlined the words blocks with my black Stabilo pencil. I backed the atc on cereal chipboard and edge the atc with black craft paint.

Viva Las VegaStamps! April challenge

New month is a new inspiration board challenge over at the Viva Las VegaStamps bog.



I made a set of ATC's for this challenge.

The base is watercolor paper scraps from art journaling class that I had to cut to size of my journal. As you can see from the board one of the colors was pink!  YAY! I painted one scrap a water down hot pink craft paint. and the other I used RazzleBerry craft paint(which is also another color on the board)

After the paint dried I took the black Inktense pencil and drew and colored scallops, half circles, and I checkerboard.While that was drying I stamped 3 Mary Vogel Lozinak images and stamped them on dictionary paper with black Versafine ink pad. I colored them with Neo Color 2's and Artist loft pearlesnt wtercolors.

I cut the images out and put some foam tape on them. Before attaching them to the ATC's i took my white Stabilo pencil and went around the the scallops and the circles. And I also distressed the edges using my scissors and took black paint around the distressed edges. I then attached the images to the ATC backgrounds. I stamped the sentiments on a small scrap of watercolor paper with the same black ink pad.

Whats in a name?

Today is art journal class and her I am blogging about the class we had last week. :)

Last week the focus was on using Amazing Mold Putty and Amazing casting resin. It was a fun class.We molded out first initial from alphabet blocks you get in the toy store or toy section in a stote (Target, Walmart). After the mold was made we poured the resin and let it sit to cure while we worked on the journal page.

When I came home I finished the page by gluing my molded piece to the journal paeg. Cut the page to fit my journal and glued it to the journal.

I had a scrap of the background from cutting the page So not letting it to go to waste I cut it in to 2 ATC cards and made ATC's with them.

I did added the Grid washi background and the line of chevron stamps from VLVS! to the background. I stamped a Mary Vogel Lozinak image and the small striped butterfly images fussy cut them out and glued the wings to the girl and glued them on the atc(they were extra from a spool swap I'm in over at the VLVS! groupies FB group). Stamped a couple of VLVS! sentiments, glued them on and I gt to use my black Stabilo pencil for the first time. 

Anything But a Card Challenge 45 Green with Envy

Welcome to March and another challenge at Anything but a Card Challenge blog. This month its Green with Envy. Oy! Green, my least favorite color. So this was a challenge for me. Back in December I had gotten the famous Raskog cart from Ikea for Hanukkah. After putting it together I gathered all my craft paint that I had put in my file cabinet for the move. I separated them into color groups. After i was done and looking at the colors I was like wow I have a lot of green craft paint! (For the record I have a lot of pink craft paint too! LOL) 

So I took a piece of light wight cardstock that was from my stash. it was about 11x11. I glued on some flowers that were from a napkin. I grabbed 3 bottles of craft paints from light to dark. Some I scrapped with a old gift card. Some I used my fingers. I was a green mess. After that dried I took my 2 green Dylusions sprays in Fresh Lime and cut grass and some stencils. I stamped a Dollie stamp from Recollections with a Vivid green ink pad and a Ditto stamp of dots in a green Marvy Matchable ink pad. I then took another stencil and Distress paint in peeled paint.  Finally I took the Dylusions white Linen spay and sprayed it through a circle plastic canvas. After everything was dried I cut it up in 2 postcards size (4x6) and  ATC size cards. Unfortunately I did not take a picture of what the paper looked like before I cut it up. I remembered that I should of done it as I was making the first cut with the paper cutter. 

So this postcard I used Wicked Birthday tamp set from Tiddly Inks. I stamped her with Versafine black ink pad on Kromecoat from Viva Las VegaStamps! I also embossed her with the Ultra High Gloss embossing powder. I colored her with Crayola markers. I stamped the bad to the bone on a piece of scrap of the Kromecoat. I also stamped the heart and cross bones on the postcard. I glued her and the sentiment down. It still needed something so I glued down the trim that I got at Michael's. 

Okay So I had to add some pink! She is Nancy Grew from Krafty Kimmie. I stamped her the same way as the postcard before. I colored her with the same Crayola Markers. I popped her up with foam tape. I stamped the wheres the pink with alphas that I got a Target. Though I wrote the question mark. 

Finally The froggy ATC. I stamped the Mona Frog from Viva Las VegaStamps! on the Kromecoate with Versafine black ink pad and embosing it with the Ultra High Glass embossing powder. To make her green I used 2 green alcohol inks. I glued her on the ATC and then I wrote on a scrap its not easy being green( Come on I had to!) I backed all the paper on cereal box to make it sturdy.

So be sure to check out Anything but a Card's blog to see what the Other DT members are doing and come play along!

ATC's with scraps

After I trimed my journal page to fit my art journal from the last Art Journal class. I had big enough pieces to make some ATC's. I finished 3 of them. Added some more paint with UmWowStudio stencils and some drips and splatters. Also used some Wood venere peices from Studio Calico, and American Crafts.

Stamps used Viva Las VegasStamps! and RubberStamp Ave. (its an old stamp.)

Stamps used Viva Las VegaStamps! and Stampressions (again another old company)

Stamps used are from Stamps by Judith

Anything but a card:Challenge 37 Open

This months challenge over at Anything but a card challenge blog is an open theme. You can do anything you want, as long as its NOT a card.

I made some atc's using things that were on my desk or near by me.

All were made on a piece of mat board. And the font I used for all is called groovy baby.

This one is probably my favorite our of the bunch. While I was digging through my envelope of collage fodder I saw her and thought she would be good on an ATC. The background image was from a book. I thought it would be cool to do a packing tape transfer with it. It kinda failed. but I still used it. I glued it on to the matte board. I cut the girl out did have to trim her a bit so she can fit on the atc. I then backed her on one of the tags from the tag pad by Prima so she was a little more sturdy. I used foam tape to put on the atc. The quote I got from Brainyquote.com Its from Marilyn Monroe.

This one I used matte medium to glue pink tissue paper on the the mat board. After that dried I took some of my gesso and my pallet knife on a hexagon stencil. I took a circle plastic canvas and sprayed Dylusions Bubble Gum Pink through it. I stamped the girl(from October Afternoon Midway collection) on white card stock with Black Versafine ink pad. I colored her skin with Faber Castell watercolor crayon. The rest I colored in with Inktense color pencils.used foam tape to put her on the ATC the quote is from Dr. Seuss.

This ATC I started out with gluing a scrap of scrapbook paper(Newsworthy from Paper Studio) onto the Mat Board. I then glued the dress form and the flower. While that was drying I stamped the Julie Nutting girl on book paper. colored her skin and hair with Faber-castell watercolor crayons. I dressed her with Cartographer ATC pad(though its 4x6) by Prima. I stamped the Eiffel Tower on to the background Then attached her. The quote is from Mae West.

I glued a napkin on the white side of the mat board with matte medium. The heart was made from a piece of corrugated cardboard and sprayed with after midnight Dylusion spray. I glued that to the ATC. The Julie Nutting girl I made for another project but never used, I glued her on the ATC.  The quote is from Charles Shultz. 

These 2 are the same just using different colors. Before gluing the Vellum (from Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Rubber stamps (remember them from back in the day?! :P) that I had in my stash, I used my pearlesent water colors from Artist loft and color the background. Then I glued the vellum with matte medium. I took the plastic canvas circle and sprayed the top ATC with the bubble gum pink Dylusion spray. I then took the plastic canvas and turned it onto the other ATC and it picked up some other color that was in it besides the pink. I stamped the party girl from Julie Nutting onto book paper. color her skin and hair. The top dress the paper is by TCP Studios, her balloon is white cardstock that I later colored pink with a pink pen. The bottom dress is from The Create Collection and her .balloon is from Fab Scraps. The quotes are both by Dr. Seuss.

 So go to our website to see what the DT have done and don't forget to link up your project to the page! Don't forget to mention us and link back to us when you are writing the blog of your project

VLVS! April challenge

There is a new monthly challenge over on Viva Las VegaStamps! blog. Here is the inspiration board they put up to inspire you.

And here is what I made

I used a Tim Holtz Retro Cirque texture fade on white cardstock. I then took Dylusion sprays in Lemon Zest and  Pure Sunshine. There is a little bubble gum pink on there from over spray on another project. :/ When it was dried I cut the paper into 2 ATC cards. On a scrap of white cardstock i stamped with Black Memento ink pad the girl with Umbrella facing away. i clolored her using Faber Castell's Kids water color crayons. I used foam tape to up her on the ATC. I took some more scraps and sprayed the Lemon Zest Dylusions spray. Then stamped the sentiments after it dried. Cut the words apart and glued them to the ATC with Glossy accents. The one on the left I added 3 blings from Jolie.

Stamps used: 

Girl with Umbrella facing away

Keep Calm/puddles

You make rainy days special

ABAC challenge 24-Christmas in July!

The new challenge over at Anything but a card is Christmas in July. Yes I know its too early to think about that. but its never too early to start on gifts for Christmas or Hanukkah. Though I didn't  make a gift for my project for the challenge.

I did an ATC. My brain wasn't thinking gifts yet. LOL

Paper I used is from Sandy Lion. I glued it to a atc that is already cut to size. I took  plastic canvas circle and sprayed Sugar Cookie Glimmer Mist. I stamped the window with the Menorah on white cardstock. colored it with Prisma color pencils. Glued it to the atc base. with the Helmar craft and hobby PVA glue. I edged the atc with picket fence distress crackel paint. Did it very lightly. Then I stamped the girl onto the window. The window and girl are from Effie Glitzfinger. I had some trim from a RAK that I thought looked like snow so Glued that on top of the window with glossy accents. I then stamped the sentiment from Viva Las VegaStamps! edged it with tumble glass distress ink pad. Glued it with glossy accents.

Hope you play in ABAC challenge!

melted crayon fun

Last year I showed an ATC I made using the Melted crayon technique that I learned how to do from Martha,Seeking for Art. Today I'm going to show you 2 more ATC's I did recently with the melted crayon technique, this time using Kromecote.

I wanted to see if the Melted crayon technique would work using Kromecote. So, I started playing around with it. I did 2 ATC's using both sides of the Kromecote. The glossy side (left side) and the matte side(right side). You can see the different results I got.

I'll start with the left one. The glossy side

I stamped on the Kromecote with the Brick background stamp with Black Versafine ink pad. Because I stamped on the glossy side The ink is still very wet, so I embossed with the Ultra High gloss embossing powder. Yes, more experimenting. After it was embossed I  took some crayons in blue hues and with my craft iron melted the crayons and wiped them on the Kromecote. When I was done I heated the back of the atc to get the way hot. I turned it back around to wipe off the wax. But I was starting to wipe off the color off as well(even some of the embossing). So I left it alone. i like dhow it looked anyway. I stamped the Boy in cape on white cardstock. and colored him in with my Prisma's. I used foam tape to put him on the ATC. I stamped the all my Heroes sentiment and cut the words apart and glued with glossy accents because there is wax where I was putting the words at I had to hold there a little bit to make sure it didn't pop off. 

Now to the Matte side

I stamped the Harlequin Diamond background with the black Versafine ink pad. I used magenta and purple crayons with my craft iron. I turned the paper over to heat the way. then I took a paper towel and wiped the wax off leaving the color.

On white cardstock I stamped with Black Achrival ink pad the Writing Arrow, coffee pot inn. I painted them with my Pearlesent water colors. The arrow smudged a little, but I was fine with that. I used Miracle tape to the coffee pot on the ATC. The arrow I made it like a tree and used foam tape to put it on the ATC. I stamped the A morning without coffee sentiment. and cut out the words. Glued them on with glossy accents. 

Stamps used
brick background
Boy in cape
all my heroes
Harlequin Diamond background
Coffee pot inn
A morning without coffee

Items used
Kromecote
Miracle tape
Black Archival ink pad
Black Versafine ink pad
crayola crayons
foam tape
glossy accents
pearlesent water colors
water brush