Secret Crafter Challenge #50 / One For The Girls

I found another blog this evening and I have the perfect little ATC I created a few weeks ago but have yet to get to post it. The Challenge this week at The Secret Crafter is "One For The Girls". So now you see why she is so perfect for this challenge. The image I used is an Elisabeth Bell from SCACD, the image is water color painted with distress inks on an ATC sized illustration board. The sentiment is from Fiskars and she has been over sprayed with perfect pearls and water to give the card a glow.

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!

Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge / Teen Terrors

HI! Long time no see.I have been so busy with my new job and all the stresses with going back to work I lost my creative Mojo. Well I finally found it again and I am ready to play in some challenges so more my first one I am going to show my favorite teen terror, she is such a Gorjuss Girl! This is for Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge.



MATERIALS

IMAGE Gothic Gorjuss Girl

MEDIUM Copic Markers & Momento Ink

EMBELLIES Stickels

Enjoy and Happy Crafting !!!

Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge / Black, White and Grey

Hi and welcome to another weekly challenge over at the Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge. This week you will be creating an ACT with only Black, White and Grey. Here we have our sweet little angel Melinda, who has found one of those wonderful clouds with a silver lining.



Materials

Image Whiff Of Joy Guardian Angel Collection "Musing Melinda" By Elisabeth Bell.

Medium Derwent Coloursoft Pencils in black and greys, Gamsol and blending Stumps

Paper Doddlebug black sugar coated floral paper and embossed foil paper for the cloud.

Tools Cuttlebug, embossing folder, Scissors and glaxay glitter pen

Enjoy and Happy Crafting !!!

Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge / The Beach

Well I must say this challenge is my favorite, because I love the Beach. This week over at Tilda and Friends we were asked to make an ATC about the Beach. Here is sweet Emma the Mermaid basking in the summer sun on her shell by the sea shore. I want to say a great big thank you to Caz and all you fine ladies at Tilda and Friends for the wonderful month I spent being your guest designer.



Materials

Image "Emma the Mermaid" from Fred She Said...

Medium Copic Markers & Stickles

Paper Bazzill

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!

Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge / 123 Recipe

I love recipe challenges and this week at Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge we are doing a 123 recipe. That is you use 1 - Character, 2 - Patterned Papers and 3 - embellishments. Here is my cute little character for this week. So now I can't wait to see what you create with the above recipe.



Materials

Image Snag 'Em Acrylic Stamps: Foxy

Medium Derwent Coloursoft pencils, OMS and blending stumps

Paper Twitterpated PP collection from imagenesence & Bazzill Card Stock

Embelishment Candy Dots by Pebbles INC.

Tools Fiskars threading water punch, QK revolution and flourish Die, EK Success mini flower punch, spellbinder circle die.

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!

Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge / No People

The challeneg set for this week at Tilda and Friends is to create a Non-People ATC. For this I dug out a cute little stamp from "Bugawumps". He sure is cute in his own little gallaxy.



Materials

Image Bugawumps

Paper GP 110# card stock

Medium Rainbow ink pad

Techniques Masking and Brayering

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!

TMTA - Faces

What a unique idea for a challenge and this week at TMTA they want us to put our best face forward so here is my little ATC beauty.

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!

Art Pieces ATC Challenge - Vintage

Our challenge set forth this week at Art Pieces is to create a vintage ATC. Here is my vintage creation.




















Materials

Images Vintage photo pool at flicker

Paper Watercolor

Medium Gel medium and Glaze Medium

Technique Glaze medium transfer

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!

Art Pieces "Magic"

The theme for the Art Pieces ATC challenge this week is Magic. I happen to love fairies in all their magical beauty and mischief, so this little guy was hanging about today and needed to be let loose upon blog land. His background is made with a baby wipe and watercolors.



Materials

Image Vintage photo from my personal stash

Paper Baby wipe mounted on watercolor paper

Medium Blue and Yellow liquid watercolors and glaze medium

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!

TMTA- Summer Solstice

This week over at TMTA the theme is "Summer Solstice."



In celecbration of the longest day of the year I have created an ATC with Hula dancer giving thanks to the suns warming rays of life giving light.

Materials

Image Bugawumps "One Wicked Wahine" Collection by Laura A. Jacobs

Medium Ranger big and juicy vibrant primary, Ranger acrchival ink jet black and Pentel oil pastels

Paper GP 110# card stock

Tools EK Sucess Round punch and foam brayer

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!

TMTA Magical Worlds

I have done it again while looking through blog land today I came upon another ATC challenge this one is Think Monday - Think ATC. They are a mixed media challenge and I love to play with many different techniques when creating so this blog is right up my alley. Here is what I created for submission to this weeks challenge.



Materials

Image Vintage lady from Art-e-Zine

Paper 110# card stock, phone book page and butterfly paper cut out from graphic 45

Mediums Gel Medium, Glaze Medium, Turquoise acrylic paint, water colors and archival ink pad

Embellishments Flowers, Rhinestones, gold embossing and Signo pen

Stamps Victorian Butterflies by Rubber Stampede and Laundry Line by My Minds Eye

Sentiment Stamp Love by Heidi Swapp

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!

Tilda and Friends ATC Challenege - "Summer Fun"

This week at Tilda and friends ATC challenge is Summer Fun. We were asked to create a card with a summer theme or feel to it. So here is my summer filled ATC for this weeks Challenge.

Materials

Image Gorjuss Girl "Goth" from Sugar Nellie

Medium Copic Markers, Chalks and Memento Ink

Paper Neenah Solar White card stock

Stamps and Sentiment Studio G

Embellishments Stickles and Icon Rhinestones

Enjoy and Happy crafting!

Art Pieces - Frames and Polka Dots

Well I have made another ATC challenge blog discovery this week it's Art Pieces. I just could not help myself and I had to play. So here is my submission for this weeks challenge we had to make an ATC with a frame and polka dots.



I hope you enjoyed and thanks for looking.

Tilda and Friends ATC challenge "Open Theme"

This week is an open theme for the ATC challenge at Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge. I had this wonderful idea to do a sketch in miniature for an ATC much like you would do for a card and here is what I came up with.



Materials

Image "Melinda Blowing Kisses" from Whiff of Joy by Elisabeth Bell

Medium Copic Markers, Signo pen, Gelly Roll Clear Star Pen and Tim Holtz Distress Ink "vintage Photo"

Paper Tutu dot for Bo Bunny, Bittersweet paper collection from Basicgrey and Watercolor paper from Cason.

Embellishments Half Pearls from Kaisercraft, Flower and Leaves from CTMH and Lace sticker from personal stash.

Tools Paper trimmer from Cuttlebug and Glue dots

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!

Tilda and friends ATC challenge Use More Than One Character & A Spoon Full Of Sugar Challenge #53 Lace

So here I am back again with another challenge project, this is an ATC for 2 different challenges. The first is for Tilda and Friends ATC Challenge they asked that we use more than one stamped image. I used my favorite little Gorjuss Girls. The second challenge I am using this project for is the Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge where we have been asked to incorporate lace into the project so I edged the ATC with white lace to give it a little bit of pizazz.



Materials

Images Gorjuss Girl Stamps from Sugar Nellie and Sentiment stamp from G Studio stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Paper GP 110# card stock and Imaginisce twitterpated-Hey Foxy

Medium Prisma Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Paper Blending Stumps and Maxon White Comic Ink

Embellishments Rhinestone flowers from CTMH and lace from my personal stash.

Tools CutterBee Precision Scissors, Xyron 510 adhesive machine, micro fine paint brush and Tacky Tape

The Crow King ATC

I am so excited Halloween is just around the corner, and with that I thought this cute little guy would be great for this post. I got his image from a vintage photo share on Flickr. I printed his image onto good sturdy card stock and very carefully cut him out I inked his edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink from Ranger. I also colored in the lace on his shirt with an orange Tombow marker. I put a small slit at his hand for the wand to go through so he would look like he is holding the wand.

Next I stamped out the butterfly wings onto 130 cold press watercolor paper with Ranger Archival ink. I then colored the wings in with Pentel oil pastels and used a blending stump to blend and soften the colors. I then coated the wings in Ranger Glossy Accents and dipped them into clear reflective micro beads that are made by Rolco. These give the wings an iridescent look and great texture without interfering with the color under it. The crow cut out is from Stampington's Tempting Templates section. The paper I used for the crow and the hat came from the Making Memories line it is the the Spooky Newsprint one. These were both inked in Black Soot Distress ink from Ranger. I added some extra black to his beak so he would not blend into the hat. Background paper is from Creative Imaginations and is called Fright Night.

The image of the crow is a stamp that I purchased from the Stamp Asylum in Dallas,TX. I used Ranger Archival ink for that image too. Once I completed designing my collage I xyroned the pieces and placed them on the card. I then used glaze medium made by liquitex to coat the entire card except the wings. The final steps were to glue a star and rhinestone to the end of his wand and I distress embossed the edges of the card with Black Soot Distressing powder from Ranger.