Mini- ATC's

    

These are my first attempts at mini ATC's with a new yahoo group that I joined called Paperfollies. Patterned paper, wintage women, vintage travel posters, borders and rub-onz were used to collage these mini ATC's.

Altered Playing Cards

So here it is. I found a perfect reason to use the peeled paint technique again, as we were required to have parts of the playing card showing through. Vintage labels and ephemera, stamps, clear sparkle pen and glaze pen were used. 

Queen for a Day

I used vintage photos on old world patterened paper. A fabric sticker was added running down the side of each card. I cut crowns out of scraps of background paper for each queen. A clear sparkle pen was used to add shimmer to jewelry and crowns.  Glaze pens were applied to the background to accentuate the design of the paper and to add texture to create depth.  Tiny bits of bling were added to the crowns as a finishing touch!

Colorful Pair of ATC's

This pair of ATC's was for a new group I joined on swap-bot, the Bright and Colorful Swappers. The theme was artist's choice as long as you had a pair. I chose these vintage travel posters and using a Sharpie pen I expanded the picture onto the ATC, added some flowers, and bright colorful background colors. I colored with copic markers and added details with glaze pens.

Peeled Paint Technique Challenge

Trying something new, peeled paint technique, acrylic paint and vaseline. It really works. I think I will be doing nore of this technique in the future. I did these ATC's on 140# watercolor paper then added vintage ads and diecuts, some vintage stamps and some rub-onz stitch marks.

Altered Teapots

I joined the Everything But ATC's yahoo group and participated in my first challenge with that group which was to alter a given teapot shape in a choice of themes selected for the month of March. I decided to particiapte in all 4 themes and really enjoyed the teapot shape because it is so different from anything I have done before, and I have a fondness for the whole tea party theme - tea cups, teapots, etc.

Kitten teapot

Daffodil teapot

Artist's choice teapot - I chose sewing, another of the themes I enjoy.

Shamrock teapot

Vintage Swappers - ATC's

These ATC's were created for the Vintage Swappers group which I belong to in swap-bot.

This card required mixed media, using at least 3 different types of media. I used acrylic paint, rub-ons, glaze pens, distress inks, patterned paper, vintage die-cuts, and rubber stamps.

For the bird ATC challenge I used vintage images, rubber stamps, glaze pens, distress inks, and white souffle pen. 

For the time ATC challenge I used vinatge papers, rubber stamps, sharpie pen, copic markers, distress inks, chalk inks, and glaze pens.