ATCs For All - Decades 1920s

I thought that a pack of ephemera from this era had been included in my order from the Memorabilia Company but I can't find it so .......
My Mother was a milliner, as I have probably mentioned many times, and this meant that she was quite a fashionable young lady of the time.  She made most of her clothes and hats, her best friend May alongside her, and I have some wonderful photos of these two ladies.  
I also have lots of souvenirs from different places, among them a booklet from  The Great Exhibition of 1924. Then there was the Autograph Album ......  Enough memorabilia to make some ATCs methinks!!

No original photos etc. were used only photocopies.
I used a page from the souvenir booklet as a background then attached a length of the old ribbon I bought from the market in Paris diagonally across the card.  I took a photo of my mother on the ferry to the Isle of Wight, cut it down and rounded the corners, then attached it to the lower right of the card.  This left room for me to attach a gold embossed word - Imagine.


I used the cover of the souvenir booklet as the background to this card.  The ribbon made a neat border so that, when I attached some photos taken at the Expo, the souvenir title could still be seen.  The sentiment - put on your wings - is what Mam did in 1932 when she married my Father and sailed to the other side of the world - Malaya.


I think that this drawing is beautiful. 
I did nothing to this card except add the picture.  
My Uncle Vincent, no first name, was an artist of some renown and had his own sign-writing business.  I can imagine him coming round to my grandparents house, along with a few other relations, and all these young people spending time drawing, playing the piano, singing and dancing, going on picnics ....... all the things that folks did back then ...... this is from that time ......

I have enjoyed making these cards ...... a good way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon.

UK ATC July Colour - Lilac and Green

Great colour choice!
I spritzed three cards with red and blue to make up my lilac background and, when they were dry, I set to work.

I used one to the decoupages from the Crop, donated by Shazsilverwolf (Thank you again Shaz).  When I had completed the decoupage, I attached it on the left side of the card and glittered some of the outside edges of the petals.
I cut down one of the vellum quotes, from the Crop again, and attached it by one side along the edge of the decoupage - Happiness dwells in the soul.

I attached a purple die cut to the background and sorted some floral pieces made from mulberry paper.  

I inked up the green leaves, attached them to the centre of the card, inked two sizes of flowers around the edges and attached them on top of the leaves.  A small punched flower, also inked, was placed in the centre of the large flower and small sequins placed in the centres of the flowers.  This card needs no sentiment! 

While sorting through my diecuts for the flourish, I found a Tour d'Eiffel and some branches.
I stamped an Arc de Triomphe slightly to the left side of the card and placed a branch, cut from the inside of an envelope, in an upright position to imitate a tree.  My little Tower went on top after I had used my metallic markers to highlight the tip.  
Small punched flowers, inked with purple, were placed in the corner of the card, adding small diamantes, inked to match, in the centres.



I received the following:

Love this padded heart and little note book.
Thank you JanS.

Love the neat diecutting.

Thank you Margaret.

A good mix of textures on this one.

Thank you JudithAnn.

 

Summer of Colour - Week Two

It's week 2 of the Summer of Colour 4 Challenge on TwinkleTwinkleLikeaStar and this week I've really struggled to find the colours in my magazine.

So I cheated .........



I managed to find the colour Coral in my magazine but could not find the right shade of blue for Teal, so I printed out the colours as defined by Kristin on her Blog.
I cut out this rather flashy lady who just happened to be wearing the right colour PVC outfit.  
I cut out the Teal from the colour strip above and placed it to the left of my card, and a quote from my stash along the right side.  I placed the model off centre so that I could add some flower punchouts from the Coral side of the colour strip.

Now I am wondering why my photo has a blue background when it is clearly Teal in the strip above? 
 Weird!  

UK ATC July Theme - Historical Figures

I was going to go with Figures as in numerals - Roman, Egyptian etc. then changed my mind.  i will make my cards along the them of Historical Lady Figures.
I sorted some images out from the web and ideas formed in my head.....
Joan of Arc
I found an image of Joan with her long hair in armour, with a countyside background, her heraldic shield and thought that with a bit of netting, stamped with silver ink, I could make a presentable card.


The net was stamped and put to one side to dry ....
I attached the heraldic design as a background ......
Joan was fussy cut from her background .....


Charlotte Bronte
I found a photo of Haworth Parsonage to use as a background which I covered with gesso.
Quotes within circles were fussy cut and attached with more gesso so that the gesso formed a border to some of the circles.  When these circles had dried I coloured the edges with my metallic markers.
I fussy cut the image and placed it slightly off centre on the card.......

Queen Elizabeth I


Queen Elizabeth is one of my favourite people of History, she was strong enough to put her country first before her personal life.
I found an old map for the background, some ships, olde worlde title and a black /white sketch of Elizabeth.I printed the ships twice and roughly cut the second image.  The first image was put on the map and the title placed along the edge of the card.  When this had dried I put the second ship onto the first one.  The picture of Elizabeth was trimmed and placed to one side of the card.  When it had all dried, I coloured the crown, highlights in her hair and jewels with metallic markers.  I used a promarker to colour her gown.

I am not sure whether to add a sentiment or not .... for the present, I have no sentiment ......

I have received the following:




Charlie Chaplin.
Thank you Liz.

Napoleon - woop! woop!

Thank you Erica.

The One and Only!  Elvis.

Thank you SylviaF. 

Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge #141

I have a couple of comic magazines that I brought back from France so I am well equipped to enter this Challenge.  Trouble is  .... trying to find suitable pages I can use!

I managed to find a page to cut up, which I forgot to photograph, but I can assure you these squares came from the same page.  I attached a picture to three pieces of card and then searched through my 'Words' box for suitable sentiments.
This is a 'Wicked' challenge so I looked at the pictures and for words with a slightly 'wicked' view.  The story is about Donald Duck reading a book, ignoring his nephews so that they have to get their own back - brings back memories of my childhood ..... I loved reading .....

 With a strip of blue/gold ribbon down the side I added a vellum 'FAMILY' so that the ducks could be seen in the state of disarray.  The other three sides were swiped through an inkpad to edge the card in the relevant colours.

I think those nephews are getting mighty sick of Donald reading .... the words say it all!  I made this card in the same way but 'touched' the ink pads over the sentiment before attaching it to the card.

I love this card!  Not just because I recycled the sentiment but because it is soooo appropriate ..... I can just hear me ....
Once again I made the card in the same way, sometimes cards just 'fall' together and these three were just like that.

I shall enter this one into the Challenge as it makes me smile!!

UPDATED:-  I'm a winner!!!!!

Summer of Colour - Week one

BJ had an interesting post for WOYWW #261 and a link to an interesting Challenge ..... The Summer of Colour 
I left a comment for Kristin to say it looked very interesting and I wanted to join in.

Then I forgot about it!!!

Today I was checking my comments on this Blog and found one from Kristin ... one click and I am in panic mode!!!

Here are the colours for this week ....

I have decided to make ATCs using a magazine from Paris.

  

I found the colours I needed in the magazine advertising various days out.  I cut out the background for the card from the blue advert.  I imagined a tree ..... and cut it out of the yellow part.  Now I needed a 'Smudge, Splash or Pop of Hot Pink'.  

What to do .... my small scissors went clip, clip, clip .... and flowers grew and .... a bird settled in the tree ....

My first Summer of Colour ATC complete .... so off I go now to meet up with Mr Linky .....

UK ATC June Swap

What to do?  I have this predicament every month don't I?

I have several ATCs as abstracts coloured with Inktense pencils.   I used the green one for this swap.  I covered it with one of the vellum quotes which I attached with green flower brads and rounded the corners.

 A vase cut from a piece of wallpaper, stuck to a piece of brown card, became the focal point on this one.  I diecut a flourish and punched several flowers from a page out of my Book of Papers.  When these diecuts were placed around the vase, they looked as though there were flowers falling out of it.!

Sometime ago I made a green Master sheet, using Gesso and stencils, which provided a background when I cut an ATC shape from it.  After using an excess butterfly topper on the bottom half, I placed some 3D small butterflies on the top half.  A small, circular sentiment printed on acetate finished off the embellishments.


I used an old envelope, tried out some of my newish stamps and inkpads, and came up with this wonderful work of art.


After I had stamped the rose border I coloured it with red  watercolour pencils and water washed it.   The quote was embossed in gold ...... boy did it stand out!!!

I received these little beauties by return:-


An embossed background and a diecut shoe, decorated with pink gems.

A tiny little teaset standing proud and decorated with cerise gems.

Some super thick jelly peel offs.  Love that seahorse!

Thank you Janice S.

UK ATC June Theme - Hats & Shoes

Love this theme!

I have some glittery embellishments in my stash, terrible colours though!  That's why they have been there so long, but now bright colours are back in fashion!
I bought some inkpads to match - how sad can one be?
New inkpads to match the colour of ages old embellishments - what an excuse!!
I found some paper on the net, highlighting hats and shoes, cut them into ATC sized pieces and attached three to some cereal box cards.

The embellishments were attached to the card and then .... and then .... I STAMPED WITH MY GLORIOUS ORANGE!!!
Oh yes!  New Shoes in orange!

I have stitched some peeloffs - have you ever done this?  They are special peel offs which you attach to some paper and then .... stitch!!
I bought some a long time ago from Craftee but I see now that there are not many patterns left......BUT .... if you want to try some they can be bought from Crafts Too for a limited time.
Anyway I stitched some of the hats in preparation for this swap.

I used a small silver hat on lavender paper and stitched it with purple thread for this card.  I stamped in green - When I get tired of shopping I sit down and try on shoes.  I embossed the shoes in silver (old embossing powder) and added the hat!

Now it's time for a change - have to bring in red - it's a good colour!

I stamped - if the shoe fits, buy it - in green on the diagonal across the centre of the card.  I placed a red hat on the top half and a small red flower on the lower half.  The hat and the flower peel offs were placed on red paper and stitched with red thread.





UPDATED:-

I think this is pink flannel, whatever it is I love this card.
Thank you Jan.

This card is a lesson in how to use stickers.... amazing!

Thank you Pauline.

This card is wonderfully put together.

Thank you Liz.  

UK ATC June Colour - Favourite

My Favourite Colour ..... of course!   RED
I cut three cards out of a cereal packet and used the negative from a Tattered Lace Alphabet as a stencil, so that I could cover the cards with Red Alphabets.  I outlined certain letters with a red felt pen, namely R E D and then stencilled A T C  in pink and outlined in red.  One was straight down, one at an angle and one across the cards .... looking good!

I used one of the dresses I bought some time ago from The Fruit Pixie, taking the striped dress from the packet I inked it all over with red ink, including the bow at the waist.
Once it was dry, I spritzed it with red metallic ink and put to one side to dry.  I attached the dress to the card with the pink diagonal ATC in the corner.  This was complete as the dress said it all!

I sorted three letters from the packet bought from Fruit Pixie, two red and one blue.  Taking the blue letter 't', I inked this thoroughly with a red inkpad, drying off with a Kitchen paper, and inking again.  It took few hours for the ink to dry and then I attached the letters to the card.  Perfect!

That's not what the spelling spelt ......

I used a mandala made from red and gold papers using a Paper Wishes template I have had for years.  There's no link as it cannot possibly still be on sale!!!
From the vellum pad I bought at the Crop last week, I used the word HAPPY, attaching it at the back of the card with washi tape.


I edged all the cards with a red inkpad and now they are ready to go in the post .........

UPDATED:-

Lavender .... the best.
Thank you Judith.

Shiny, glittery, calmed with a bit of black.

Thank you June.

Another glittery one.

Thank you Jan S.