All Dressed Up ATCs

I haven't done any ATCs for a long time but decided to have a go to show that the All Dressed Up images aren't just for cards or 3D projects they can be used for mixed media too.

I've used some gorgeous new products (to me anyway) from Globecraft & Piccolo. I've used their gorgeous Enamel powders in various colours. Dare I say I'm finding them better than the frantage I love so much lol.

I've also used some of their Piccolos (the flourishes, butterflies and hearts). They are made from bookboard and will stand anything you put on them. 

The All Dressed Up images are:

Love My Sister there are two girls in this stamp set

Love my ipad

Wear with style 2 there are four girls in this stamp set

All are available at the All Dressed Up etsy shop here

they've been coloured with copics, shinhan and spectrum noir pens.

the sentiments are by Sam Poole.

Shary

x

Creative Expressions DT Project- A Tutorial

Hi Friday at last! Today I would like to show you a tutorial that I've made on 3 ATCs I designed for my Creative Expressions DT project.

Materials:
Blank ATCs
Creative Expressions - Sam Poole's Creative Studio stamps: Steampunk Christmas & Art Sayings
Distress Inks
Perfect Pearls
Memento Ink
Tissue Paper
Multi medium Gel

1. Take your 3 blank ATCs and using cut and dry smooth your chosen colour distress inks over them, overlapping a little. Spray your fingers with a little water and flick over the ATCs. Blot dry and allow the inks to dry completely.

  2. On each ATC take a contrasting distress ink and ink up the grid stamp from the Steampunk Christmas set and stamp onto the ATC. Go over the ink with your chosen perfect pearl. Brush off all excess.

 

 

3.  Using the two smallest cogs from Steampunk Christmas stamp and ghost stamp randomly over your ATC.

 

 

4. Stamp the tree, bird and 2 sized bulb blooms onto different coloured tissue paper. Cut out carefully.

 

 

5. Using a gel medium adhere the stamped tissue to each of the ATCs and then add another layer on top. (My bird bled a little because it was pink tissue but it doesn't look as bad in real life).

 

 

6. Stamp out sayings from the Art Sayings set onto white card. Cut up each word and edge with distress inks.Add to ATCs and finally add some highlights with a white pen to the tree. (see main pic).

 

 I hope this has been useful. My last 3 DT projects have been all about Christmas but  I wanted to show you how versatile Steampunk Christmas was and doesn't have to be all about Christmas.

 

Have a good weekend.x

Studio 12 Monthly Giveaway

At Studio 12 we have a great monthly giveaway going on.......

At the end of each month, Nikky has kindly agreed that there will be a competition/giveaway for one lucky person and this month is no exception. So what do you have to do to win some gorgeous Polka Doodles/Studio 12 goodies .... not at all hard we promise ......

1] become a follower
2] put a note somewhere on your blog about the Studio 12 giveaway. Could be in your sidebar or in a post .... the choice is yours.
3] leave a comment on the end of this post.
4] if you are already a follower (mwaaahhhh to you), just do points 2 & 3

This giveaway will last until the end of the month, when a randomly chosen winner will be chosen. Good luck everyone and to get you in the mood, all the Studio 12 DT have been busy making so why not pop over to their blogs and say "hi".

I've made 3 ATCs for today's post. I've used up all the scraps that I had left over from my previous projects. I've used different stitching to edge them and also distress ink. All the papers , sentiments and some of the embellies are from the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD.

UKStampers April ATC Swap

These 3 ATCs are for a UKStampers April ATC Swap. The theme was Faces.



lots of paint, inks, stamping going on these, usual mixed media type of thing. For the little girl ATC I've used the cracked glass technique.

Uk Stampers Altered Art ATC Swap

Here's an ATC I made a while back for a swap on UK Stampers. You had to make an ATC using anything but paper or card.



So I've used acetate as my base and covered it with alcohol inks. I've then used some gesso for circles to make texture and inked them. Then I used various stamps with white and black ink.
The girls and sentiment are from a collage sheet by Lisa's Altered Art on Etsy. I used a gel medium to apply them. Then lastly went around the edges with a gold pen.

Mmm the smell of spring

Here's a quick ATC I made for a couple of challenges, The Octopode Factory Challenge and the Rainbow Lady's Challenge. Both were Easter themes.



The caption is supposed to be from the rabbit who is smelling the Easter egg.
For the background I used a shopping centre map! I've covered it with Dylusions inks and stamped various images over it. The images are from the Octopode Factory, a collage sheet called Easter and Spring. I cut them out and lightly distress inked them and stamped over them with a script stamp. The sentiment is from another collage sheet.

Until you spread your wings ATC

I would like to get into the world of art journalling and thought after the last page I needed more practise. So an ATC might be a bit better to practise on. Well I tried to doodle on it but now I know doodling is just not my thing. So I think it's stamping for me.



Hard to believe but to start with I used a Tim Holtz ATC sized piece of card that was in one of his pads. I've inked it, painted it, stencilled it, just about everything you can imagine!!! The girl is from a digi kit by Wish Bliss Studio and is called Some kind of wonderful. I forgot all about these kits, I used to love using them in my digi layouts. They are ideal for art journalling. I made the saying using the computer and then just chopped it.

This will be one of a set of three.

A bit different

So I used to be into altered stuff a long time ago and then stopped and made cards instead. Now I'd like to do both so I made a very quick ATC to gently get me back into it. I aim to do an art journal soon.



I used a selection of distress ink pads for the base and then lightly stamped some patterns with the inks. For the main image I used black Stazon. The little sequins I got today at Poundland. A big bag for a .... £1. :0) I edged the ATC with some gold ink.

Stamps: Paper Artsy

When we moved back to UK from Germany I had to throw a lot of my craft stuff out. Grrr how I wished I'd kept it now , most of it was altered art stuff!!