CHALLENGE-ing ATCs, Part 2

Here is the second ATC for the 5-things challenge.  I'm not really into the cute, doe-eyed images, but this gifted stamp was sitting on my desk and it seemed perfect for this ATC.

Here are the 5 things:

White paint: rubbed over the collaged and painted background
Words:  the collaged background has some ripped book pages, there are words on the magazine clipping and there's the sentiment
Washi tape: upper left-hand corner (flowers)
Magazine clipping:  book image (title: Scentual Garden)
Person: she's actually a garden fairy, but if you don't tell, I won't

That's a wrap!  Now I need to get this in the mail...

CHALLENGE-ing ATCs

This morning I finished up an ATC for a challenge swap over on SwapBot.  As I prepared to get it enveloped and in the mail I looked again at the challenge rules...WHAT?  I needed to make TWO ATCs, not just one.  Yowza.  C'est la vie...here's the first one at least.

The challenge was to incorporate 5 elements: white paint, washi tape, words, magazine clipping and a person.

Easy enough, right?  Well...could be. The cool thing is that you can combine them.

White paint:  My base is part of a cereal box.  I covered it with white paint to tone down the color, added some collage bits (book pages, gelli prints) and modeling paste through a stencil then covered it with gesso.  After adding color with watercolors, I added some white paint lines with an old credit card.

Washi tape: Easy breezy.  I used it on the left side AND it has words on it.

Words:  Book page bits in the background, washi tape and sentiment (which I love BTW)

Magazine clipping and Person:  I don't remember where I first learned about this technique, but I love it.  I found my woman in a magazine ad, ripped her out and gesso'd over the top of it.  With a fineline marker I traced over the features and then added color back in using Distress crayons and watercolor pencils.  Finally I cut her out and glued her onto the base.  Deciding she needed a little pizzazz, I stuck some blue mini star sequins onto her purple locks.

Now off to make another one...

Snarky Stampotique ATCs

Over on the Stampotique FB group there is a little monthly fun swapping ATCs.  There's always a theme and for February it was 'snarky sayings'.  It's no secret that I love a little snark so I jumped on board without a second thought.

Classic Stampotique snark with this quote...love it.  Other Stampotique goodies used on this are Texture Cube, Microscopic, and Cooee.

I love Cecil.  When I found this quote online I knew Cecil was the right dude for the job.  I also used 'incident report' from Bar Code Text #2 in the background.

I hope my trading partner gets a chuckle out of these.

Cheers!

Abandoned Art

Several years ago I discovered the Art Abandonment group on Facebook.  People take their art to a public place (or many also create their art there with found objects like rocks, leaves, sticks, etc.) and slyly leave it with a note for others to find.  After making my pouches last week I've been wanting to rip up more napkins (I know.  I don't really get it either, but The Muse is insistent.) I ended up with a couple of bookmarks that I'm going to leave at the library today.

I started by covered a 12"x12" piece of cardstock with book pages.

After tearing the napkins into a variety of sizes and shapes, I glued them over the book pages.

I cut this into strips, added bits of stamping and stenciling, a doodle here and there, old postage stamps and a sentiment to call it good.

Now...does anyone read actual books with pages any more??  😜

Behind Every Mask ATC

Yep...another ATC for today.  This one is for a folded ATC swap.  There was no criteria for how the ATC had to be folded; I could have just made a flap.  I wanted to do something a little different though.  When I saw this technique I immediately thought of this bird mask image.

Getting those diagonal folds was a little challenging at first but perseverance pays off.  😉

I hope you're having a spectacular day!

Valentines Day Treat Boxes

I love to make little gifts for my preschoolers for the holidays.  These treat boxes are some of my faves.

I'm going to put little chocolate bars in these.  I'm sure that will be a hit with my littles, too!

I'm entering this is in the Lawnfawnatics 'lots of love' challenge HERE.

Paper Pouches: An adventure in arting up junk mail envelopes

There are some clever people out in the world.  I recently joined a swap that asked the players to make 'paper pouches' from old billing envelopes.  Once arted up they can be used in journals or to hold items for safekeeping.  We were also asked to start with a base covered in a decorative napkin.

I have a bad habit of picking up napkins at Tuesday Morning.  Seriously...how many fancy napkins does one need to have on hand?  Apparently quite a few if one is under the impression that she will be using them not only for fine dining but also to art up stuff.

Here are my pouch creations:

These were fun to dink around with.  Here's the video I watched to see one way to get it done:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3u8O-Ecx8&t=1270s

Carpe Diem!

Reddish ATC

There is something kinda cool and interesting about monochromatic creations.  It's a great way to explore tints and shades (and, quite honestly, justify all of those spontaneous paint purchases...at least in my case. 😏)

I joined a monochromatic ATC swap over on SwapBot and pulled out my neglected Rubber Dance stamps to create this little masterpiece.  (I like to pretend that all of my creations are masterpieces - ha ha!)

There was gel printing, stamping, and paint flicking involved for the background.  The flower is Copic'ed.

Thanks for having a peek today.