Category Archives: ATC

Bling ATCs

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Here are my 3 ATCs for the ukstampers June challenge with the theme of bling. I may have over-blinged the chandeliers as it was difficult to photograph with all that sparkle.

Chandeliers ATC: black card, silver embossing, Inkadinkado chandeliers stamps, silver stickles and a little crystal glitter, gems, glaze, silver foil tape.

Pink bling: ivory card, gold embossing powder, Inkadinkado morphic bugs stamps, stickles, gold leaf, gems tiny beads and sequins, H2Os, glimmer mist and salt.

Bling dragonfly: black card, gold embossing powder, Inkadinkado morphic bugs stamps, mini beads and sequins, gold webbing spray, H2Os, shell laminate, glaze.

Vintage ATCs

I have made three different ATCs for the ukstampers ATC swap for May. This month’s theme is Vintage; which can mean different things to different people…so….

vintageCar

This is a vintage car stamped onto vellum and stuck onto backing paper with the sign, in a lighter colour, underneath so it stands out. The top and bottom edges are just cut paper.

Ink: black documents ink
Card: beige vellum, paper from Hot off the press-Heritage
Stamp: B line designs car cube

vintagePhoto

This one is a vintage photo. I rubbed Distress ink over white glossy card then inked the stamp with espresso, wiped a little off and added caramel fondant then stamped onto the card. I layered the image over some script vellum and ivory card, and added photo corners cut form scrap paper. I added a touch of pink to her shoes and belt using a copic marker and tiny gem.

Inks: Adirondack espresso, Stampin up caramel fondant, Distress ink antique linen
Card: glossy white, ivory, script vellum, scrap brown wood grain paper
Stamp: ballet dancer (unknown)
Other: pink gem and copic marker tender pink

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Vintage wine was stamped then coloured using water colour pencils. I added a label, vellum, brad and a sprig with grapes to embellish it. The grapes are highlighted with a little Diamond glaze. I edged the ATC with gold wax and smudge a little wax over it to age it a little.

Inks: black document ink, versamark with gold embossing powder
Card: white, Label: green card embossed and rubbed with gold wax, gold paper embossed
Stamps: Aspects of design 6 – nature, WS designs wine set
Other: beige vellum, bronze brad, metallic rub on wax, Diamond glaze

May ATC swap sketch

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I am the host for the may ATC swap at CBC and this month instead of a topic we will be using the sketch as a template. You can rotate, skew, flip, reduce size or interpret it as you wish as long as the template can be seen in some shape or form.

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Here are my two for the swap. The first one: stamps from Design house Deco stamp sheet coloured with copics and stickles. The second one: Stamps from The artistic stamper Seaside No.1 coloured with copics and stickles, sun charm. They both have a bit of 3D layering.

Poor Pandas ATCs

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These two ATCs were made for the CBC swap hosted by Ellen this month. The theme was zoo so I chose to do Pandas behind bamboo bars. The bars were stamped on acetate behind which is panda paper. The same paper was used inside the bottle caps.

Inks: Brilliance black, copics to give a slight colour to the bars
Card: white covered with panda paper, acetate
Stamps: Non-sequitur oriental collage elments (52C) bamboo screen
Other: bottle caps, green stickles, glossy accents

Sleepy cat black and white ATCs

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Black and white is the theme for the UKstampers April ATC swap so I have gone with; the same stamp, same colours and the same embellishments but keeping each one unique.

Inks: versamark (with white opaque embossing powder), Brilliance graphite black, alcohol ink pitch black
Card: white glossy, plain black, plain white
Stamps: Michael Strong’s Cloisonné cat, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry
Other: gelly stardust pens black and white, black gems, black feathers, black velour cord

I used compressed air on drops of black alcohol ink and glossy white card to make the black and white splatter background ( Tim Holtz technique) then randomly stamped the tiny splatters.
Can you spot the mouse?

ATC swap theme YELLOW

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Here are my ATCs for the CBC ATC swap for March and this month’s theme is YELLOW. They are very simple; just stamped images coloured using copics, finished with a torn strip of yellow vellum. I decoupaged the daffodils for a bit of depth, and I added a bit of sparkle to the rose.

Inks: versafine onyx black, copic to colour, Distress ink mustard seed to colour the edges
Card: white card, yellow vellum
Stamps: Rose – Aspects of design 1 – floral, Daffodils – supastamp-online

ATC swap theme ART

The ukstamper’s ATC swap theme for March is ART so inspired by StampZia’s amazing site I had a go at these 3. The ideas and techniques are from stamp Zia but I have used different colours and stamps and tweaked the ideas slightly.

ArtOrchid
Inks: black document ink, black Marvy pen with clear embossing powder
Stamps: Stamps Happen magnolia floral, paperartsy (unique art) Man of numbers – plate 5
Card: white box board
Colours: slate and neon green sprays, bleach, Copic begonia pink and dark suntan, red neon pen
Other: sequin waste, art masking fluid

I scribbled the masking fluid onto the card and waited until it was dry, then sprayed some splodges of green and when that was dry I sprayed it lightly with slate through the sequin waste varying the intensity.When that was all dry I then rubbed off the masking fluid and stamped unique art in document ink by stamping off first. Then I selectively inked the flower only with Marvy pen, huffed to moisten before stamping then embossed with clear powder. I then lifted some of the colour from the petals using the bleach (in an aqua brush) and once it was dry I coloured in the petals and stems.

ArtFlower
Inks: Brilliance galaxy gold with gold embossing powder
Stamps: paperartsy (ART) Man of numbers – plate 5, Elusive images oriental plate A better place, Non sequitur – Cranes 9D
Colours: wine and elderberry sprays, bleach, stampin up taken with teal, red pencil
Card: white box board
Other: sequin waste

For this one I used a similar technique to spray the the colours on, then stamped all the images in gold and embossed them. I took the colour out of the flower, crane and a few other bits and highlighted the letters using the bleach. I dabbed water onto the area around the crane to lift only a small amount of colour. The swirls and small areas of the flower were coloured with teal using cut ‘n’ dry nibs.

ArtGinko
Inks: Brilliance galaxy gold with gold embossing powder
Stamps: Judikins Carol’s cube (large Ginko leaf), Non -sequitur Oriental collage elements 52C (small Ginko leaf), and quote (unknown)
Colours: neon green, forest green, Glitz Spritz spray Desert moon antique rose sprays, neon orange pen
Card: white box board
Other: sequin waste, gold Pilot pen, white Signo pen

Again using the same technique to spray the two green colours on then lifted the colour from the leaves and coloured them orange. I then highlighted areas with the white pen and splattered some gold spots on with the gold Pilot pen. The ATC was then finished off with a light spray of the Glitz spritz.

ATC swap theme – X

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I found this swap theme quite hard. Hazel’s ATC swap choice this month at CBC is ‘X’ so I chose X Box and The X factor. No stamping involved this time though just a bit of free hand drawing with the circles and text done on the computer. I just couldn’t get my shading right on the X for the X box – that was the third attempt and my glaze took on a strange blue tint. Hey ho.

ATC swap theme FRIENDSHIP

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The ukstamper’s ATC swap this month has the theme of friendship so here are my 3 to swap.

Top
Inks: black versafine, various Prisma pencils and sansador, silver highlight pen
Stamps: Stampin up Loads of love (and accessories)
Middle
Inks: black versafine, various Prisma pencils and sansador, black gelly glaze pen, silver highlight pen, black stazon
Stamps: Stampin up sanded background, part of Hero Arts friends forever, Woodware (Francoise Read) a dog’s life
Other: silver metal foil
Bottom
Inks: black versafine, red Marvy pen, green Marvy pen, Distress ink peeled paint
Stamps: Magenta small border stamp, quote is from a stamp sheet of quotes (unknown origin)
Other: silver wire butterfly embellishment

ATC swap theme WOMEN

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I have just finished these for the CBC ATC swap theme of women. The calligraphy translates to beauty and grace (I think). I made the background papers by spraying colours onto watercolour paper but I made them months ago and now can’t remember which colours I used.

Inks: black document ink
Colour on images: Prisma pencils and neon green and orange pens, highlighted small areas with a gelly roll glitter pen (with aqua brush)
Stamps: Ist Oriental woman stamp (unknown origin), 2nd Oriental woman stamp from non-sequitur – Oriental collage Ellements (52C), and Chinese calligraphy stamp collection from Barbara Aria, Stampin up background stamp ‘sanded’ (for the lines on the first ATC)
Plus a couple of fan stickers.