More ATC Kits and a swap ...

After the excitement of finding the kits at The Works, plus the order I placed on line, I have settled down to have a play.  I sorted out all the contents into piles to see what exactly were in the boxes.  Cards, papers, trims, ribbons, mounts, plastic templates and some interesting shaped pieces of card.

I read the instructions to find that some of the cards are "Jigsaw" .....



..... speaks for itself!  lol








Some are "Domino" - why?

Good question.

Some are "Folders" - logical.



I decided to place some of the Faux Silk flowers into the centre of the jigsaw and started with the white jigsaws.  The first one looked incomplete so I spritzed the inside of the other two, one with gold and one with rose.
After papering the inside and outside of some of the others, I was feeling a lot happier.
I added a few rubons to the outside of the jigsaw and they were complete.

Can you see the green card with tiny yellow flowered paper?

I also completed a domino - just because I could!

I papered each front, added some paper and sentiment to the first opener, then added a cutout owl to the other four openers.

Kinda cute!

I have contacted an online friend who has agreed to swap with me so it looks as though we will have fun......

ATC World - It's Spring

I used my lovely Spring flowers stamps, stamping in different colours and clear embossing.  I then watercoloured the flowers.

I embossed the daffodil with white ink and clear embossed.  Using my watercolour pencils to colour the flower, I washed the image with clean water.

I did the same on the tulips.

I embossed the pansies in a medium brown ink and clear embossed.  Once again I used my pencils to colour the image, followed with a clean water.
I swiped the edges with green inks and rounded the corners to finish.

 I used one of my jigsaws cards as a hostess thank you.  I used the Faux Silk Daffodil for the centre, with a green paper on the side pieces.  On the outside I used a yellow paper and then used a rubon across the join.






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 A bunch of flowers and glittery snail.
Thank you Corrine.

Lots of flowers in pots.

Thank you Kathy K.

An APC.

Thank you Gwynn.

CWS - Spring

How I need to think of Spring, I am so very tired of all this rain and cold.

Visions of Spring bring daffodils, tulips, crocuses and bluebells ... so out come my lovely floral stamps.  Emboss and/or Faux Silk ... I couldn't decide which technique to use so I used both.

I stamped the stamps in a light brown ink onto white tissue paper which I screwed into a tight ball.  I then cut three backgrounds from a masterboard I made several weeks ago.  

Three sentiments were printed from my PC and, using fancy shaped scissors, cut them into labels.  I opened up the tissue paper, and attached it to a white background card, slightly smaller than the green background.

 The flowers, I coloured with watercolour pencils, and put them to one side to dry.   I attached the dry Faux Silk cards to the background, and then added the sentiments.

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I have received the following cards ...

Pretty rose on patterned paper.

Sunflowers on a flowerpot background.

Cute little mouse with a rose.

These beautifully coloured images were all contained in the most gorgeous envelope, made from heavy textured vintaged paper.

Thank you so much Helen.

Front

Back

UKATC Theme - Postage Stamps

I found all my Nigerian stamps for this swap as I wanted to use some pictorial stamps.
I cut out a donkey picture from a gardening magazine, a steamship from the ephemera pack and a house picture from a 'word' book.
I adhered these pictures to the cards and then sorted the stamps into relevant subjects.


I attached animal stamps to this picture.

I attached sea view stamps to this picture.

I attached architectural stamps to this picture.

I then stamped 'Air Mail' notice on each card and on one stamped a Queen's head, which was not very successful so I did not stamp the other two.

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Delicate cutting and fitting here.

Thank you June.

Beautiful BIG stamp.

Thank you Margaret.

Selection of stamps on an old postcard and down in the left hand corner ........ there is a tiny card in a tiny envelope!!

Thank you Jan W.

UK ATC March Monthly Swap

I love this swap as it gives me chance to make 3 (or 4) cards on a theme of my own choice.  I used some of the free stamps that came with a magazine I bought (WHSmith should shut its doors when I'm in town!).  I bought the magazine because of the small stamps given away free, thinking they were ideal for ATCs.  I selected 3 different cards, different types of card to see how different they would be.  'different'!
I stamped a 'different' colour branch spray on each card and coloured the bird to match - almost.

I have opened the 1920s Ephemera pack (mentioned on Recollections Blog) to see what I can add.

I tore a piece of book paper, edged it with almost matching ink and placed it on a grey card stamped with coral chalk ink.  A dancing couple, oblong cut with rounded corners, was placed on top.  I found some print outs and used the word Hopes, again torn paper and inked edges.

 I stamped the brown card with cream chalk and added a cigarette card photo of Bebe Daniels.  She was a famous Hollywood starlet and  starred with her husband and family in a radio sitcom that we used to listen to every Sunday afternoon.  Memories ....  I added a printout that I thought said 'All our Yesterdays'  but  didn't check it before attaching down the right side of the card.

I stamped the branch in a paler pink chalk on this grey card and cut some of the shoe catalogue border to place along the lower edge.  An advert for a dance placed diagonally across the card added a bit of colour.  I fussy cut a dancing couple from one of the magazines in the pack, and attached it as though they were dancing on the border.




I have received these gorgeous cards:

Cherry Blossom backed on to red onto purple backing paper and trimmed with pink fancy thread.

Script background with the most gorgeous young lady trimmed with taupe cord and peuce rose.

Another elegant lady trimmed with rainbow ribbon and cream chiffon flowers.  

Thank you Barbara for being my partner.