Paper Artsy card and ATC set

I'm thrilled to have a post over on the Paper Artsy blog today! I made a card and matching ATC set with one of the awesome Lynne Perrella stamp sets:

Pop on over to the Paper Artsy blog to see these stepped out.

Thanks for looking!

Green & Gold ATCs

Last month's theme for the Darkroom Door ATC swap was Green & Gold. Those two words together always make me think of the scene from Blackadder.

Here's my "splat of green":

These ATC swaps run monthly, and you can find all the details here.

Thanks for looking!

Darkroom Door/Sizzix ATC swap

Every month or so, Darkroom Door run an ATC swap. The current theme asks us to combine Darkroom Door stamps with Sizzix products. Here are my ATCs:

 

 

I used the Sizzix Mini Sewing Room dies, papers from Scrapcake and KaiserCraft, and the following Darkroom Door stamps:

 

Fashionable



Stitched Christmas
Buttons Background
Measuring Tape Background

Participants are always welcomed for these swaps, all you need to do is get your ATCs in by the end of November. All the details can be found on the Darkroom Door blog. Hope you can join us!

Thanks for stopping by today!

A mass of ATCs

I'm part of a group that meets once a month to make and occasionally swap ATCs. One of our themes this year was houses, and I remembered I had a tonne of little chipboard houses made by Collections. Here's what I made:

This process took over two months, as I kept getting interrupted with other work and kids. I covered the houses with Collections patterned paper, and stuck them on a base that was covered with KaiserCraft papers (Base Coat or Curiosity). The base had been stencilled with a Crafter's Workshop stencil and some blue acrylic paint.

I love seeing things en masse! Thanks for stopping by today.

Chunky Mixed Media ATC

This is one of the chunkiest ATCs I've ever made:

 

The base is a piece of corrugated cardboard from a box, and it has been built up with Spellbinders dies, fabric, felt, seam binding and a bunch of other stuff.

 

All the details can be found on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration blog.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

Paris themed ATC

The Little Bits ATC group meets once a month to chat and swap ATCs. Mostly we chat LOL

We pick a theme for the month, and Paris was a suggestion. To add to the challenge, we decided to have no Eiffel Towers at all.

He he - no problem! Darkroom Door has FOUR sets devoted to this very theme, and only one contains a touch of Eiffel. I used the image of Sacre Coeur from the Montmarte set, stamped on top of a background made with Distress Inks.

I associate Paris with grey, dreary weather and delicious food because that's what it was like when I was there a lifetime ago. I'd love to go in the spring time one day.

Thanks for stopping by!

New DT and an ATC

I'm delighted to announce that I made the 100 Proof Press design team! This is a company that has it all - from vintage to cute to quirky, so there's something for everyone.

100 Proof Press are sponsoring a prize at Fun with ATCs this month. The theme is 'Celebration,' and I used Laughing Elephant large on my ATC:

 

The bright papers are Pink Paislee (Christy Tomlinson) and the little bingo card and bar code came off the packaging of some Jenni Bowlin cards. I sewed the teeny little banner the elephant is holding on my sewing machine (very carefully!) and I coloured the elephant with Distress Markers and a water brush.

Besides the $20 gift certificate from 100 Proof Press, there are a couple of other lovely prizes up for grabs, so why not join in this month's challenge at Fun with ATCs?

Thanks for dropping in!

ATC set with Die D'Lites Frame One

I made a bunch of ATCs using the lovely new Frame One Die D'Lites from Spellbinders:

 

It's a wonderfully intricate die, and I brought out the detail in it by rubbing a little Viva Inka Gold onto it.

The images and words are from the Love Letters collection by Darkroom Door.

The full materials list can be found on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration blog.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Another card and ATC set

Here's another set I made using Prima Rosarian products from Artfull Crafts:

 

Sigh.....this range is so pretty!

 

You can read more about this set at the Artfull Crafts blog.

 

Hope your week is going well. Thanks for taking time out of your day to stop by my blog. 

A card and ATC set

I was sent some delicious Prima Rosarian products to play with from Artfull Crafts, and I made a couple of card and ATC sets. It's so easy to make a smaller version of the card using scraps that are already on the desk.

Here's the first set:

 

Pop over to the blog and read the blurb.

 

This little set is going out to the next birthday girl at my ATC group :)

 

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend!

 

More Darkroom Door Kimono projects

Here are another couple of projects using the new Kimono range of paper products from Darkroom Door.

A card and ATC set:

A little birdie told me the ATC theme for December is the Kimono Collection, so I'm now well placed to get some ATCs in for that swap!

You can see these and some other projects with the Kimono Collection on the Darkroom Door blog.

Thanks for dropping in today!

Darkroom Door ATC swap

This is a selection of the ATCs I made for the June ATC swap at Darkroom Door:

I used three different stamps for the backgrounds (Criss Cross, Scratches and the script from the Correspondence set), an image from the Art De Fleur Montage sheet, a butterfly from the Wings set, a Kaisercraft rose, a Prima flower, a pearl and some tea stained lace. I also stamped the Montage sheet image with a couple of stamps from the Correspondence set. Each ATC was colour matched to the Montage sheet image, so there were some pink, some purple and some a rusty orange colour.

Lots of layers and sponging ink, and spritzing with Glimmermists. Boy did I have fun with these.

It's a little late for June, but you can join in the fun yourself with the July swap. All the details can be found on the Darkroom Door blog.

KaiserCraft Tigerlilly ATCs

Here are some ATCs I made with my pack from Scrapbook Supplies Online.

I made the ATCs and tucked them into some Tigerlilly envelopes. They'll be sealed with little stickers from the Sticker Seals pack when they're ready to go to their new homes.

You can see close ups of all of these ATCs on the Scrapbook Supplies Online blog. There you'll find details of a little 6x6 giveaway :)

 

The Publication Collaboration

I love the episode titles for The Big Bang Theory - hence the title for this post.

It's an apt title, because our little ATC group that meets once a month at Little Bits put together a little collection of ATCs and submitted them to Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft magazine.  I'm proud to say, they appear in the current issue:

Here they are much less artistically staged (mine's the blue one in the bottom row):

This was so much fun, and I'm so looking forward to our next meeting so I can get all the girls to sign my mag! I can just hear Kerry now: "We're famous!"

 

Buttons, bows and bling

We organised an ATC swap between our group at Little Bits and the girls at Debling in Design.

The theme was buttons, bows and bling, and here's my ATC:

That's a stamp from the London Underground set from Artistic Outpost, some seam binding for the bow, and a blingy button in the centre. The papers are Girl's Paperie.

I love seeing things en masse! Thanks for dropping in today.

Sweet ATCs

These are some ATCs I made for the group of girls that meet at Little Bits.  The theme was 'Sweets' so I grabbed some Darkroom Door images from the Sweet Treats Montage sheet and stitched a border around each image:

 

I coloured some texture paste with pink acrylic paint, and embedded some edible pearls and a word from a Sweet Treats Wordstrip.

Love how they looked all piled up together:

Thanks for dropping in today!

 

A masculine ATC

A group of us meet once a month at Little Bits to exchange ATCs. We set some themes at the start of the year, and this month is masculine.  Here's my ATC:

The image is a stamp from the Dashing Gents set from Darkroom Door. Kraft cardstock stamped with Midnight Blue StazOn - my favourite combo at the moment. I threaded some ribbon through a Tim Holtz Philosophy Tag - looks a bit like a war medal (to those of us who've never seen one up close that is).

Time to pull out all of those masculine products with Father's Day on the first Sunday in September. I'll have some more masculine projects to share next week.

 

Twiddley ATCs

Here are a couple of ATCs I made for display or swapping at the Brisbane Show this weekend.  The amazing Jenni Hodge is organising a bit of a swap at the Twiddleybitz stand at the show, so if you're interested, you'd better get in quick!

If you're going to the show, drop me a line and let me know what it's like :)


 

...and it was all yellow...

This is an ATC I've made for an alphabet swap that has been running for over two years now:

If I'm really honest, the swap has been running for over two years because some of us haven't being pulling our weight. Ahem.  You might think that I haven't got long to go - I must be up to 'Y' right? Wrong! I'm doing them out of order as inspiration strikes. That might be the problem - waiting for that elusive inspiration LOL.

For this ATC, I started by embossing some yellow cardstock, adding a couple of pieces of yellow patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket), tying a scrunched seam binding bow, adding a flower that has been sprayed with Quince Colour Spray from Twiddleybitz, and topped off with a yellow button. I then coloured a film strip image from Darkroom Door with yellow tombow, and tucked it in behind the flower.

Now to draw another letter out of the hat.....

 

it's been a while....

...since I last posted.

Lots has happened, including Easter. I hope everyone had a wonderful time - I spent lots of time with family and then a little time on my own while my family went interstate for a few days. 

On the craft front, I have been busy, busy, busy! Some stuff I can't show yet, but here's a little ATC I made when I was all on my lonesome (and loving it!):

I made a batch of these to share with my ATC buddies at Little Bits next month.  The stamps are from Technique Tuesday, coloured with Copics, and the purple paper is ancient stock by Scrapbooking Australia, one of the first ever sheets of patterned paper I bought when storage space was not yet a problem.  Making this ATC felt good for a number of reasons - I used some paper I've had in my stash for too long, I made something to share, I used something new (the stamps) and I got to play with my Copics. I have an all-round good feeling about it :)

I'll be back soon with some mad news to share.