ATCs for All - Birdhouses .... Not

I love the quirkiness of this subject so had to join in the swap!
Out came my ideas for houses.....
I made four little houses and decorated them with free papers from a magazine.

Following through with the magazine idea I started to sort out suitable pictures and then DH asked if I wanted his old camera magazine ..... he knows me so well ..... yes please!
Turning the pages the possibilities became endless.

I chose two gorgeous views - where I can't remember, sorry.  I then went through the magazine again - being a camera magazine there are lots of instruction pages, which mean there were several photos the same subject but slightly different.  I tried a boat on the water but couldn't find the right size but the bikes!  oh! yes!  so two bikes are flying through the sky!



I determined that I wanted animals on this mountain woodland scene but in the end had to settle for birds - but they are not in the house!!!



Now for a change .....
DH came up with this idea - Bless Him!!
The problem was to find the right camera size, I had lots to choose from but finding just the right one ......  I needed the screen to open to show a further view .... which needed to be the right size!!!!!  So here we have our camera, with an orchestra being photographed ... well, the cellist!

This is one of my original ideas .... a jewellery box.

I had found the paper in my scrap box and there was just enough to fit the house - it has a felted feel to one side.  I taped two thin strips of silver ribbon to form the racks and then added tiny 'jewels' - yes!  I know they are meant for nails but they fit!!!  I used a gold pen to draw the chains, not very successfully I must admit.  I did have some gold thread but couldn't fathom out how to attach such small pieces.

I received the following: 



Underwater house!
Thank you CastleQueen5.

A squidhouse!

Thank you katelnorth.

 Where's mum? 

Thank you sarah's mom.

ATCs For All - Those Cats with Hats

The Theme sounded interesting but the mind was blank, DH suggested wild cats .... like lions, tigers etc.
Too funny!
So here are my 'Cats' in hats cards!

We found a picture of three lions in a magazine - what would I do without magazines? -  and cut out the lions.  I added some green paper as background and placed the lions across it.  I found some pictures of ladies with their curlers in so carefully cut round the curlers and attached to the heads of the lionesses.  The lion needed a crown which was easily found, cut and stuck!  I drew the letters with black felt tip pen.

I took a piece of watercolour paper, cut to size and wiped some colours across the front.  Then I found the ideal picture of a teddy bear and a top hat, and used the teddy bear as a template on some thin furry material. I laid out the hat and cat then when I had the positioning right I attached them to the card, drawing the features after it was attached.  I really had to think about the sentiment on this one but then it came to me .........


I love this picture of tigers swimming round a tub!  Give them some fancy bathing hats and goggles  ......  sentiment printed out on the old PC and another card was finished.



I thought that my last card needed to be drawn or painted, so I sketched out this cat from a digi found on the web.  I still have some small feathers left in my stash so found these tiny ones and added them to the cat's hat.  With a vertical sentiment ........

UPDATED:
I have received these cards back ......

This is drawn on very thin card and has no backing ergo the artist's details can be seen from the front.    Thank you Ashley.

This  is a very pretty card with delicate detailing.

Thank you Alessandra..

I love this hand drawn card.

Thank you Kynara.

..... and a bonus card from our Hostess!
Thank you Jewels.

UKATC August Colour - Gingham

I used a gingham card for this swap, cutting out all three ATCs from one card - not a piece of card but a ready bought folded card ... in gingham!!!
I printed out some digital images and sentiments and set to work.


I used my watercolour pencils to colour this image, trimmed it to size then rounded the corners , attached to the gingham using a glue stick and rounded the corners of the card.

I attached two tiny ribbon pieces to the top and bottom of this card.  

A pretty blue rose, a sentiment formatted in Word and printed on the old PC completed the card.

My last card uses one of Melonheadz illustrations, this little girl happens to be one of my favourites, which I coloured with watercolour pencils.


I cut her out to fit the height of the card which left a side panel.  I placed a few flowers punched from wallpaper on this side, adding white pearls to the centres.  I punched a small butterfly form the save wallpaper and placed this on the top left hand corner.



UPDATE:

Gingham background paper, ribbons and flower - truly ginghammed!!
Thank you Philly.

I love the subjects of this card - gingham furniture!

Thank you Sylvia.

Superb colours on this card!!

Thank you Kate.

Textured with Metal Element - Precious Metals

I started off making ATCs to enter into two swaps.  My ideas were floating around in my head, so I sorted out all the elements I thought would be needed, papers that were metallic, or shiny! any metallic embellishments, plumber's silver tape ....

I stuck, polished, embossed, glued, stamped, heat embossed and had a thoroughly good day!!!

I ended up with these beauties ....

Now although they are in groups of three, do not believe for a moment that's how I entered them into the swaps!!
I shall explain how the cards were made in other posts labelled according to the swaps in which they where entered.
Maybe I'll even have better photographs as I lost all mine when my external drive broke ... I have retrieved most of my data but photos are a questionable commodity .....