UKATC August Swap

Time is tight!!  I am cheating slightly by using some previous makes - one of my Colours of Summer ......  One from 'way back', Bingo ..... one of the Texture with Metal.

I had already received these beauties by the time I sent mine out ..

Lovely background papers and then embellished beautifully.

Thank you Collette.

ATCs For All - Anatomical Hearts

With all my ongoing 'heart' problems, (the major thing being no-one seems to know what's wrong with me), this has to be the swap for me.
I searched the web to find some inspiration, ok! googled it!  and found some sketches and pictures of a heart and waited for ideas to come........ and come they did .... and titles .....

Heart Flash

I printed the sketches onto pages from my French dictionary, two light and two dark sketches.  I left the print uncoloured and just added a colour wash, I tried to make it look like sunset, for the background.
Lots of coloured gelpens in swirls and stars to give the impression of fireworks and then PJ says .... it's an Heart Flash!!!

Love and Butterfly      

I have 'borrowed' this idea from designs found on Ephemeraandmore.com which really impressed me.

Using my watercolour pencils, I coloured the lower edge with browns and black pencils.  I added some green stalks and leaves as though they were coming out of the veins, a few pink petals for flowers and then washed it with my waterpen.  Once everything had dried, I added small punched flowers and leaves, then on the top of the heart a single pink butterfly.  I used a white gelpen to write the words ......

Technicolour Dream heart

I love this one!
I started colouring with my Inktense pencils and waterbrush ..... then outlined and coloured with Promarkers.
Soo BRIGHT!

Psychedelic...

                                                                           Where there's Love .....    

I traced the heart and coloured it with a graphite pencil then fussy cut the words from a sentiment in my stash ..... Where there's love there's life.

Les Mis Heart Tugger

I printed out a wordcloud of Les Miserables words and fussy cut it to attach to the top half of the card.  My heart this time is a real anatomical  image which has been fussycut and placed to the right of the text.  I added the red, white and blue bows but still had the white space at the bottom of the page.  I wrote the first line of the chorus that is sung at the end of the first half of the stage production in that space.

Scriptural Heart          

Another 'wordcloud' this time with medical words and a Scripture from Ezekiel.  A rather hazy heart is slipping off to the right and a bright new heart is arising from the left.  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

UPDATED:
I received the following cards ....


Bloom
The blue background on this one was a very pretty shade and the pink painted heart was a matching shade.
Thank you Miss
.

Heart of Gold

The crackled background on this card with the integrated heart was beautiful on its own.

Thank you Hilary.

Heart of Stone
Beautifully hand drawn, love the colours.
Thank you Hana. 

ATCs For All - The Owl and The Pussycat

I LOVE this poem so I entered the swap - that was before I went travelling!
I wasn't too worried as there was plenty of time..... don't know what happened but the time disappeared so I had to withdraw from the swap.
So saaad.....
But my buddies on the swap were not having it!!!  'Post those little cards', 'We'll wait', they shouted at me so I didn't really have any choice but to paint and draw.

 I drew this from a photo on the web, then coloured it in with eyeshadow ..... yes! you heard right!!! eyeshadow!  Such cuties!

I drew this boat onto some blue background from my ATC kits and then I was stuck .... how do I cover the background colours?  I used my promarkers.  I have about 10 of these colouring pens but managed to colour the boat and flag sufficiently to hide the background.  I tried to add some waves so that the sea separated from the sky.

Before I went travelling, I made some printouts of £5 notes and various images from the story ... now I cut out one of the £5 notes.  I drew a honey pot onto this, and again used my Promarkers to colour it.  I added some honey spills and a honey dipper along the lower edge and then attached the image to a yellow background form the kit.

In the rush to get these into the post - remember that the 'girls' are waiting for me - I forgot to photograph the cards so I took them out of the envelope and quickly took the photos with my phone camera.  Looking at them now I realise that the background patterns are showing through the card ....... and the photos are very dull, the cards are so much brighter  IRL, but ........I won't do that again!!!   They are posted now so there is nothing more I can do.

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 .....