Faux background paper Envy and ATC for swap

I used one of my favorite butterfly images from ISC http://innovativestampcreations.com to stamp the butterfly randomly on the cardstock, then die cut my ATC envy...I used acrylic paint, thinned with water, to color each butterfly,

After that was dry, I spattered the envy with blue acrylic paint, then folded in the envy shaped and taped it...

the ATC's that I made along with a blank ATC will go in the envy to be sent to my ATC swap partner....this is for a decorative painting group swap I am in...

to order the ATC envy http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com

Painted ATC's for swap

I coated the chipboard ATC's with white acrylic paint, then used two colors and green stippled onto the dry base coat, painted the tree limb and leaves, then glued the beautiful collage http://lisasalteredart.com image onto the tree limb, used a liner brush to write the message and then sealed with waterbased varnish...I brought one of the limbs and some leaves over the bird nest to kinda sit the nest onto the limb...

I did a faux chambray demin fabric background on this ATC...then glued on the collage image from http://lisasalteredart.com and wrote the message with paint and a liner brush...sealed it with waterbased varnish when all was dry...

ATC with painted barn scene

I painted this little barn scene on a chipboard ATC...more details can be found on my painting blog http://painteddaisygifts.blogspot.com

Painted ATC's...Snowmen in May

This is a white cardstock ATC, I just freehand drew the snowman shape on and started painting...i think he is cute...

These two are chipboard ATC's, I basecoated with dark blue paint and then freehand painted the snowmen on each...I am thinking about doing a few mor of these and use some blue lights for my Charlie Brown Christmas tree this year...I will share a finished one later on...

Hand painted ATC's

This is the first time I stamped my Magnolia image I won from Donalda's Blog, quite a while back...I stamped her on a watercolor paper ATC...colored her in using acrylics thinned down to watercolor consistency...I think she is pretty cool...

I just love this little puppy...I have painted it a few times on various surfaces...

I just love this ATC...I used the lady bug image and words from The Stamping Studio...stamped in Ranger Jet Black Archival ink...I watercolored the ladybugs using acrylic paint...then using thinned paint, added the little dashed lines to create the movement of the ladybugs on the surface...

Another wooden ATC...these are so fun to make

I painted my wooden ATC with brown oxide colored acrylic paint, why that color...cause it was the first brown paint I saw in the box...LOL...I just used a sponge, dipped it into the paint, and rubbed it all over the wood piece...thats my idea of basecoating, when I am in a hurry...

My pictures are a little out of order...but I left them like they were...This shows the detail of the bottom half of the ATC...I added some metallic gold ink sponged lightly onto the corners and little up the sides...

You can see the metallic gold on the top corners and trailing down the sides a bit...

I used redliner tape to attach the picot edged cream colored satin ribbon around the edges of the ATC...I made a little quicky bow from some light pink organza (Really Reasonable Ribbon) and added it to the top of the ATC with a glue dot...

I love that new border punch from Martha Stewart...I added all the elements except the flower with Ranger Glossy Accents as my glue, then applied a thin coat over the entire piece, I glued the flower on with a pop dot, after the front was dry...The collage image is from Lisa's Altered Art images...patterned paper scrap and bazill cardstock used...I rubbed some off white and a touch of metallic gold paint, kinda hit and miss over the dark brown basecoat...I don't know what made my photos yellow so much, I will take some better pictures in day light later...

For a Wooden ATC and Inchie kit, check out http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com This kit will be for a limited time only...

Wood and ATC's...

I have had these wooden pieces cut for about a year...they got put in a box...and of course, outta sight, outta mind...I used to paint similar size pieces as shadow box art, way back in my decorative painting days...I will have to find one of mine and show ya someday...the art I kept is packed up too...anyway...I cut these the size of ATC's...I was going to paint them...but decided I would do some collage stuff to them...I kinda got carried away with this first one...I have two more started, and will make pictures when they are finished...Oh, and I also did some inchies...

This is the top of the 2 inch thick ATC...I am working on two 1 inch thick ones...can't wait to see if they turn out like I am hoping...I glued the piece of lace down kinda randomly, then added the leaves and flowers...

This is one end of the ATC...I love that Martha Stewart punch...I glued the punched pieces down with Glossy Accents...

This is the other end of the ATC...I did not want the ends to be alike, as the sides are different as well...plus, this was an experiment piece...I figured I would make all my boo boo's on this one...LOL...then maybe not make so many on the others...yeah, right...

I just love the collage sheets from Lisa's Altered Art...Oh my...I have been wanting to use this one...and it was perfect for this side of my thick wooded ATC...I used my fence die cut, rubbed some brown paint and then spattered it with black paint...I was after an old wood fence look...Oh, forgot to say, I started by basecoating the wood ATC with off white paint...then I painted the back ground with blue and green and added a few clouds...see, I told ya I was gonna paint them...LOL...anyway...I then added the brown to color the edges and let the sponging, kinda vinette around my background painting...I also spattered the background...I spatter stuff alot...I cut the girls image out, and hopefully made them look like they were sitting on that fence...then added the words across the top...I coated the whole thing with Ranger Glossy Accents...I love that look...and I went to school with a gal that was just like that one in the crown...

I love birds...so any excuse to use those beautiful bird images from Lisa's Altered Art are fine with me...I colored this side with the blue and green paint, kinda smeared all together, to make a more teal or aqua look to it...I added some gold paint sponged onto the edges kinda randomly...I added my collage pieces, then sealed the whole piece with Ranger Glossy Accents, then sprinkled on some Beadazzles...I added the flower after the piece was dry...

ATC with Cuttlebug embossing

I embossed a piece of cardstock using a Cuttlebug embossing folder, rubbed with black ink to color...used a stipple brush and blue ink to color the layering piece and the ATC, sponged black ink around the edges...added a piece of organza ribbon between the layer and atc back...

ATC using Lisa's Altered Art Images

This was a fun ATC to make...I got to entertain a new friend in my studio today...and I decided I just had to get ink on my fingers after she left...I used the background flourish image from Innovative Stamp Creations and Ranger inks to make the background, torn piece of pattern paper and a beautiful image from Lisa's Altered Art Collage Images...Check my favorites labels for direct links to these companies...

ATC Scrapbook by Dianne Adams

This is the coolest little ATC book...Dianne used some of her wonderful vacation photos to make one of my ATC Scrapbook with Page Protectors...Dianne loves to make mini books and was thrilled at the chance to try one of our kits...When I designed this project, I knew the possibilities were almost endless...This is a great way to share photos with family and friends...and they will make great Christmas and Holiday gifts...For more info about the ATC Scrapbook kits, check out my studio blog at http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com or email me...also...Check out Dianne's blog by clicking on her name under the favorites label and see what else she has going on...

ATC Scrapbook with page protectors and snap ring binding

This is another version of my original design mini book using ATC size pages...I made this one to share with my son...
This is Kelsey and Landon with their new baby sister...They are over the moon for her...
This is my son with all three of his kids...he also will have a step son, but he was not there the day we made these photos, so I will add him later to the book...For the inside pages of this book, I trimmed down the wallet size photos just a bit and matted them on the cardstock colors I chose for the background...Wallet size photos are great for making these little books, less cropping and the photos are already sized for full use, or crop as needed, like I did using the round punches for the cover layout...alphabet stamps are great for journaling...I used my Crop a Dile and punched the hole needed in the top corner and used a clear plastic snap ring as the closure...I added various fibers tied to the snap ring...

ATC Accordion Inspiration Book

I told y'all, I was addicted to these books...I had to make one today, using my ATC die cuts and ATC frame die cuts and Mini ATC die cuts...I used various Cuttlebug embossing folders on the panels of the accordion book...various Hero Arts foliage images stamped on the mini atc shapes, Stampabilities images and Innovative Stamp Creations images...stamped on vellum and attached with brads...


I used my stipple brushes and various Adirondack inks to add color to each page...I used Walnut distress inks to accent all the edges of each piece...See more of my accordion ATC book original design creations and projects in the next few postings...

Graceful ATC

I made this ATC on the spur of the moment...A friend was looking for something with this image on it...I printed it out and color using inks and a qtip...I covered an ATC with pattern paper, layered the image on...added the beautiful organza ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon and stamped the word from Innovative Stamp Creations...added the flower and some gold paint beads...I made this before I started moving into the new studio...

Embossed ATC Frames

This ATC with embossed frame is for a swap I joined on a yahoo group...I used stamps from Innovative Stamp Creations and the delicious new Adirondack Pigment Inks in the blue shades...Organza ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon was added as an accent on the frame and slipped into an ATC sleeve...
I used my embossed faux metal technique to do the frame for this ATC...its going to be included in a background papers swap I am in...I had to make 3 different sheets of background paper...one of the sheets I made was using the same background as this ATC is made from...I then stamped the images from Purple Onion Designs using black ink...its very subtle, but very elegant in real life...

John Deere ATC and Moo

I used a page from a calendar to make this ATC...I added the confetti apples using sticky dots...this was so fun to make...
This moo card was made from the same calendar page, it was the left over scrap piece...I used the Chick set from The Stamping Studio to add the chicks and feet prints...too cute I think...I also did an inchie, but could not get a clear photo of it...so it will have to wait...

ATC's, Mini ATC's, ACC's or "moo" cards and "inchies"...

I got to play today...first time in over two weeks since I have gotten ink on my fingers...I was in heaven...LOL...My hubby gets the coolest sale magazines for greeting cards and the pictures are perfect for using in my art...All of these are made using pictures from that magazine...
These two images were perfect for ATC's...I love the woman with the pistol...and the flamingo's are just to die for...
These images fit nicely on the Mini ATC's with a nice border of color on each end...I like that look and the ink colors seem to work well with the photos...
I am just adoring these two ACC's or "moo" cards...are those cats just a hoot...and the serene lake scene is where I wish I was right now...
The images in the caty for "inchie" art are endless...oh my gosh...are some of these just too cute...I love those cats...that dog is also one of my favs...I have done him before...

ACC's and ATC's...Collage is fun............

This ACC or Artfull Calling Card was fun to make...These cards are the same size as "moo" cards except in standard rather than metric measurements...I rounded the corner on this one and then ran it thru the cuttlebug embossing folder...I used my versa mark and rubbed it across the embossed areas...then used some perfect pearls to color them...I then rubbed some tea dye distress ink randomly across the ACC...I smoothed the embossed areas down flat using my bone folder and then stamped the words...I trimmed the edges with a dark brown marker and glued on the beautiful bird image from Lisa's Altered Art pages http://www.lisasalteredart.com I added the small prima flowers and put gold dimensional paint for centers...You can cut your own ACC's or "moo" size cards or get them precut from cardstock or chipboard http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com/

I love to make ATC's...once I get started I sometime don't know when to stop...LOL...I began with a cardstock ATC die cut and rubbed some tea dye ink onto it...I then used some background images from Innovative Stamp Creations to create a background to work off of...I cut another ATC from a patterned paper and tore it to use on the bottom part of the ATC...I used a flourish die cut from the same pattern paper as well...I used Lisa's Altered Art image, some prima flowers and beadazzles to embellish the ATC...I use Ranger Glossy Accents as a glue for the beadazzles and flowers...