Voting Day In The UK

Ok, Question for you - Is there a limit to the number of blogs you can follow?

Every time I blog hop I find more wonderful blogs I want to follow but today I got an error message saying that I had exceeded my limit of 300 blogs and needed to 'un-follow' some before I could add new ones.

Shock. Horror!

Well as you can imagine I also RSS a fair few to my google reader but it is just easier to follow isn't it? So I've been signing up through the 'follow' tool recently. I shall just have to go back to adding via RSS.

Hey ho.

Well anyway here is an experimental ATC for you. I've used a rub-on on fabric which I then distressed a touch. The background was made by some watercolour stamping onto some tea-stained (as in real tea!) card. The string is coloured with Shimmerz Spritz Truffle, Purple Passion and Shimmerz paint Lilac.


Materials:
Stamp - The Artistic Stamper
Inks - Marvy Le Plume Watercolour pens
Paints - Shimmerz Spritz and Paints
Usual Suspects - Silicone Glue; Paper trimmer
Other - Fabric; Vintage rub-on; Leaf Skeletons; Button; Tea (any excuse for a cup of tea); String

Enjoy The Journey

An ATC this morning and this one draws inspiration from the May challenge over at the Graphicus Blog which is all about Travel and the colour Blue. They have a fab prize up for grabs but you need to get your entry in by the 31st May!

Details: I've used distress inks and a brayer to colour the background paper which was then stamped. The bicycle image was spotlighted with a bit of Stampbord coloured with alcohol inks, stamped with part of the image and then etched to show some highlights.

I have another project for you later - What two in one day? Well this one is for the Instyle Stamps blog hop and I am really excited to show you the cute image that is being released today, very sweet.

Materials:
Stamp - Royal Langnickel; Studio G Alpha
Inks - VersaFine Onyx black and Sepia brown; Distress inks; Black Stazon
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Glue dots; silicone glue
Other - Brayer; Brads; Stampbord; Alcohol inks; etching tool

Christmas ATC Swap

Katy from Craft Stamper put one of her ATCs up for a Swap on the Magazine's blog and I was lucky enough to be drawn from the hat :) So here is the ATC I sent her, and if you have not seen it already go check out the lovely ATC I got in return from Katy.

The background was made using an ink wash over some stamping in the same ink, allowed to dry and then stamped again in the green.



Materials:
Stamp - Papermania
Inks - Winsor & Newton Ink; VersaColor Gold; Tim Holtz Distress inks peeled paint
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Trimmer; Silicone Glue
Other - Acetate; Galaxy Markers; Brushes; Recycled cup holder

What Happened to Wednesday?

I seem to have lost a day. I honestly thought it was Wednesday today. Oops. So I think that this ATC is particularly apt for me today. This one is for Think Monday, Think ATC which this week has a watches theme.



Materials:
Paper - Kaboodle Doodle
Inks - VersaColor Pink; Distress ink Walnut Stain; VersaFine Sepia
Stamp - Studio G alphabet
Other - Pearl brad

Stone Inchies Make An ATC

So to continue my Inchy quest I have used them in this ATC for the Think Monday - Think ATC which has a 'Stone' theme this week, as by luck should have it I have some 'stone'-related stamps.


Materials:
Stamp: Paper Artsy
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress inks; Stazon; Tattered Angels Gold Glimmer Mist
Other: Cardstock; Stone button; embroidery silk

The lovely folk over at Think Monday - Think ATC have sampled this ATC. Thanks Folks.

Tickets to Ride

This week's challenge on Think Monday - Think ATC is 'tickets'. So I've made this ATC from some train tickets, screwed up and coloured with alcohol inks. The dot texture at the top was made with sticky dots removed from the card and then the blank spots were wiped with the alcohol ink. The tag was made from metal and again coloured with alcohol ink and says 'Tickets Home'. A strand of wool and the national rail logo for trains in Britain finish this ATC.

Children ATC

Here is a children theme ATC for Lots To Do Challenge. I kinda love the pink gingham with the turquiose ink colours.

Dreaming ATCs

A new week and a new ATC. The theme this week from Think Monday - Think ATC is 'Hands'




So this week I've continued my Indian Dreams themed ATC's using a hand as the main image, I expect I will at some point put the other ATC's in this series up :)

The background is coloured with blue and pink ink pads using a brayer and water spritzer. Small Indian style flowers are stamped onto the background in pink and blue and a border is embossed in silver. All the stamps used were from Avec.

Glitter glue, ribbons and a handwritten sentiment finish this ATC.

What goes around comes around

The challenge from Think Monday - Think ATC has the theme of circles this week. So here is my interpretation. The flower is stamped and coloured in with Marvy pens. The circle is coloured with an ink pad and the dots and doodles drawn in by hand.

Faces ATC

This week's challenge over at Arty Girlz is a Faces theme.



So here is an ATC stamped with distress ink onto a distress ink coloured background. The two boys were then stamped using Marvy Le Plume pens and cut out and layered onto the background.

Apollo leads the way

So here is an ATC for the Theme Thursday Challenge which this week (well until tomorrow - better late than never) has a Man theme.




This ATC is coloured with green and purple distress inks using a spritzer and a brayer. Then stamped with the Harlequin pattern and the ornate borders. The Statue of Apollo is actually on a transparency and I've used 3-Dimensional glue mixed with cosmic shimmer to attach it to card coloured with the distress inks. Eyelets and sparkly elastic thread finish this ATC.

Eyelets ATC

Not been up to much craft-wise this week, hope to get something done this week. I have got a recently made ATC that uses eyelets that I thought I would put up onto the My Time To Craft Challenge blog.



The ATC uses K&Company papers with the the heart and key cut out and edged with pink ink pad. The whole ATC was edged with green ink pad.

Tower ATC

This week's Think Monday Think ATC is about your favourite tower. Well being a Londoner it kinda had to be Big Ben didn't it?




Ooo look, look I've been sampled! Thanks guys at Think Monday - Think ATC.

An ATC for a Bank Holiday weekend

Looking out my window on this wonderful bank holiday weekend in London I see that it is cold, wet and very grey and windy. What a good excuse to stay at my crafting desk and enter a few challenges perhaps?


In this challenge from Think Monday - Think ATC the idea was to produce two linked ATC's that can stand independently of each other but had a shared image.

And again with the ATCs

Some more ATC's. The top two used clear embossing onto a glue stick - I quite like the coverage you can get and the bobble texture it makes so use it every now and again. I had two images of the angel so one image I used as a background and slipped it behind clear-embossed cut-out flower borders. The angel herself was then cut from the second image and decoupaged on top of the background and borders for dimension.

Then the bottom ATC is actually a collage of tiny baking pictures cut from the John Lewis Christmas Catalogue :) But I really liked them and fancied doing a collage ATC so.....

And now some ATCs

Artist Trading Cards or ATCs are fab for trying out new techniques on a small scale. I love them but must admit I don't do that many. Here are some of my more recent ones, trying out different ideas. The 'Home Sweet Home' ATC was actually inspired by the 'New Home' card and I have also made it into a bookmark. Shall put that up in another blog post- when I've found the piccy :)