ATCs For A Special Swap

Some ATCs I've been working on for a special swap. The first one is on painted watercolour paper and the next 2 are on recycled corrugated pizza box. I peeled the printed paper off the surface, added a burgundy cardstock embossed with Cuttlebug folders. I hit the high points of the embossing with white pigment ink and the image of children the embossing was highlighted with Fired Brick Distress Ink. Both have buttons and bits of lace from my trims grab bag.

ATC From My Junk

I've been having fun doing more one handed art. I'm using all the bits left over from the backgrounds I made for the byhand artists background swap (see earlier post) and turning them into ATCs. I used the small pieces and cut some with my paper trimmer into triangular shapes, smushed lots of glue stick onto black cardstock ATC blank and arranged the pieces. I then sprinkled gold embossing powder and heat set it. I used computer generated text and rubber stamped the angel image on separate cardstock, cut with my paper trimmer and glued them on. Since this is some of my limited production left handed art I created a special back for these and attaching the back was the only help I needed. I love my junk(lol).

Background For Byhand Artists Swap

Well here it is, my first attempt at left-handed art, well actually one-handed, with my right arm in it's cast. The byhandartists Yahoo Group are having a background swap, so before signing up I gave a trial run and found I could handle this technique, so now I am in. I started with a piece of single-sided black corrugated cardboard approximately 12 inches by 14 inches. I used matt medium to glue torn pieces of handmade tissue paper in purple, white, blue, tan, light and dark green onto the cardboard, pushing it down into the corrugated grooves. This is finished with four coats of the matt medium, allowing each coat to dry before adding the next one. I added a small amount of Spun Gold and Silver Morning craft acrylic to the finale coat, but that does not show up very well, perhaps there is not enough of it in the gel medium. And here are two of the pieces cut to the required size of 4 inches by 6 inches.