"The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit,
the greater your capacity to create."
~Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I made another piece for the
Hello Spring! blog challenge over at
Paper Traders. This little ATC is going to be my entry in the March winner-take-all ATC lottery. The beautiful background was created by
Suzi Blu - it was a scrap of paper I picked up at her garage sale last year... isn't it pretty? I layered a floral image over the top and painted each petal with
Gleams to give it some shimmer, then I touched the centers with some coppery glitter glue. I also used my
Pan Pastels to add shadows behind the flowers for some extra dimension. Lastly, I sketched some lines around the edge of the card with my superfine
Pitt pen.
Help me embrace the springtime spirit by joining in the fun of
this month's blog challenge. Head on over to
Paper Traders for some inspiration!
Every month, our
Paper Traders group has a winner-take-all ATC lottery and this is the card I made for February's entry. I used a leftover "failed" background from my
CNY cards (it was a "fail" because the colors were too blended and brown - the ones I used for that swap were just black & red). The scanner never does very well at picking up the shimmery bits but this card has a gold sheen and some touches from my gold foil pen.
I had originally made this ATC with the hopes of joining
Marion Bockelmann's annual blog swap but I was just too busy to get all of my cards made in time for the deadline. Instead, I am contributing this ATC to the
Paper Traders monthly winner-take-all lottery.
We held a really fun swap on Paper Traders this month. It was a "stuff" swap and we sent our swapping partner an envelope full of random ephemera; then their challenge was to make one ATC using some of the items, sending the finished card back to the person who's stuff they used and keeping the extra ephemera for themselves.
Well, I was having so much fun, I couldn't stop... and I ended up making THREE ATCs from the stuff I received. I forwarded the top two shown here back to my swap partner and am entering the card shown below in this month's winner-take-all ATC lottery. (For this last card, I added the picture from my own stash.)
My friends and family are having a chilly Spring but here in San Diego it's mostly sunshiney and getting warmer all the time. Soon the heat of summer will be here (ugh!) but until then, I am enjoying the pretty blooms all around me and the mild weather of the season in Southern California. Happy Spring, everyone!
Every month, our
Paper Traders group hosts a "Winner Take All" ATC lottery. It's a lot of fun - everyone puts in one ATC and at the end of the month, we draw a winner who gets all of the entries... and then it starts over again for the next month. Entering just one ATC is not a big risk but when you win it's like a party in your mailbox!
These are the two ATCs I made for March and February. The latter is pretty simple but the first one took a couple of days to layer up the background. This was a variation of
Jill Geraghty-Groves' "decaying background" technique as shown in the
Mar/Apr 2011 issue of
Somerset Studio. I didn't have the distress crackle paints she recommended so I used an all over clear crackle instead but I still think it turned out pretty nice.
Our Paper Traders group hosts a monthly ATC lottery. Here are some recent ATCs I made for them. Now, if I could just remember to get them sent off to the corresponding winners!
I decided to try making more art in the style of
Teesha Moore's tutorials. These are both ATC's which I found much more challenging due to their small dimensions (about the size of a playing card). Still it was a fun project, even if the results are a bit odd =)
Every month on
Paper Traders, we have a Winner-Take-All lottery... Everyone puts in an ATC with a the chance to win them all! I put this cute little one together for my August entry.
I had a request from one of my arting buddies, to do a private swap of one of my steampunk cards. Since the ones I posted earlier were already committed, I made a couple more for her to choose from. I think she made the right choice in picking this one (my personal favorite =)
I entered the other one (below) in the Paper Traders monthly winner-take-all lottery for July.
I'm hosting a "steampunk" themed ATC swap on Paper Traders. This is one of the cards I made that didn't make the cut for my swap... so I'm going to put it in for the monthly winner-take-all lottery. The fan blades on this card rotate - kinda fun!
