ATCs For All - Stencilled

I acquired a new stencil not long back, I had no ideas for it but thought it looked good and was the right price for me!
I wanted to use the modelling paste which is sitting on my window sill so set up the ATC card blanks and stencil.
I stencilled all the cards and then put them to one side to dry.  When they were all dry I coloured them up using water colours and sprays.  I sprayed each card with a different colour spritzer.

I used the top of the stencil on this card and painted it using the yellow spritzer itself.
I used a pale grey wash on the rest of the card.

I watercoloured this card to show the centre as a 'stained glass' window.

I moved the stencil lower down the card and then added a vine and flowers in watercolour.

Moving the stencil further across the card, I watercoloured a climber with red flowers.

Text and Paint

Sometime ago i found this photo on the web, I just love what the artist has created!

Doncha luv 'em!!

I am going to try and make my own.

I tore three pieces of paper from the pages of our local free paper.  I drew out the sizes of ATCs and various flowers and then watercoloured the front of two papers and the back of the third one, but painting the back does not show so when it was dry, I painted the front of the paper as well!





 One was painted yellow and pink, one blue and green and the third one was painted blue on both sides!!!!

I never managed to come back to my desk until the following day and as you can imagine, the paper was very dry.
I painted in the colours, even the white showed through a treat, and left them to dry.  Once dry I attached the paper to ATC cards and rounded the corners to complete them.

AFA - Stencilled!!

I have just bought a new stencil so I am going to have fun!!

 I sorted out the paste I bought from Lidl some time ago, there were three kinds and now I could try them and compare.
I used the brickwall and wiped it over with the 'rough' paste.  After moving the stencil to the other side, I wiped the card with 'fine' paste.  I moved the stencil to the archway, placing the edge of the stencil level with the edge of the card and wiped it with 'smooth' paste.  Moving the stencil up the card I used the 'fine' paste again and then put all the cards to dry.

When the cards had dried, I spritzed one with blue glow and one with gold and put them to dry again.

I water coloured the paste in four different ways ....

I painted the brick shaded red and then when dry, painted a 'branch' along the lower bricks.

 I painted the 'brickwork cement' shades of yellow and gold,  and as the card spray was still showing, I painted the centre of the arch as 'stained glass'.

I painted the 'cement' in deep yellow, leaving the gold spray showing over the bricks.  I painted tiny red flowers and 'vine' leaves across the paste.

I painted the card grey and all the paste a bright yellow.

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.