Onion

It was very difficult to photograph. It does look better in real life though


This is for a 'shape of things to come' swap

The task was to make an ATC sized cut out shape and decorate it.

I sketched the onion with pastels first - sealed it - then dipped it several times in onion skin coloured enamel to get the smooth shiny finish, then stuck it onto thick card.

The white is just the paper it is laying on for the photo shoot.

Butterfly

Trapped for all time in 'amber' enamel

It is ATC size - and very tactile - the top is pointed but the scanner has 'cut' it off

The white is just the scanner page and not part of the ATC

Architecture Swap - ATCs received in exchange

Thankyou so much to Kay who made the one on the left and to Shary who made the one on the right - I am thrilled to add them to my collection.

A Copper Egg

I tried out a new technique today - and this is the result - an ATC size but cut into an egg shape - 'right up my street' with a chicken theme so perhaps that is why I had fun doing it!

Again it doesn't photograph well. But with the naked eye it looks like a piece of thick beaten copper.

I stamped it with a couple of the new stamps I bought from the USA and heat treated the paper with a heat gun to get the dull effect.



Along part of the edges (bottom up to right top) I melted plastic film so it actually looks like an amber coloured solder or melted toffee texture and one big mass rather than the individual bits you can see.




In different lights it looks all different colours - I am going to try and make another to keep for myself.

Shape of things to come

I have had a bit of a famine arty crafty wise - due to lots of commitments - both family, friends, chickens, and allotment - but as rain forced me indoors for a couple of days I managed to make these for an ATCards swap entitled 'Shape of things to come'.

The idea is that you take an ATC sized card and change its shape - so long as it is within the ATC size of 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches.



This triangular one was made by painting a sheet of paper different shades of green - limes mainly.

When dry I mounted it on thick card, cut out the triangle and stamped on the face.

Next I textured it with glue and then clear embossing powder heated with a heat gun. The top of the triangle I used distressed style yellow embossing powder, then a fine dusting of UTEE.

With the naked eye it looks and feels like leather, with smooth and rough surfaces. To finish off I ran an ink pad along all the edges.

Indigo Swap - Zuzu's Forum - Received

Aren't they fabulous

Top Left - Zuzu's Top Right - Kath's
Bottom - Seona's

I am thrilled to bits.

I am awaiting some new stamps from the USA don't know how long I will have to wait for them.

I hope they arrive soon and I am itching to experiment with them.

I have also bought a small hobby drill - with lots of attachments - about the size of and electric tooth brush - as recommended by Ginger on Zuzu's forum.

Hopefully I will now be able to drill holes in the decorated dominoes I make - and turn them into useful objects.

Blue and white swap for ATCards

The remit for this swap was blue and white - any combination of blues and any mediums.


This has been heavily embossed which does not seem to show up in the scan


These are variations on the same theme but no two are the same. I don't usually do similar ones like these but was under pressure to get them out!




Some embossing on the lettering




These will all be going to different people - plus one extra for the hostess.