Rainbow Lady - Faces

The theme for Rainbow Lady's Challenge this week is "Faces". These faces are personal photos and Dover images (woman, clock, butterfly).

TMTA - Travel

A while back I read about adding gum arabic with water to Pearl Ex to make it stay fast to the paper. Of course, gum arabic doesn't come in tiny containers, so I wound up with probably my lifetime supply. So after reading about how Janet used mineral spirits with her pencils, I decided to experiment with my g. a. today, using it with the pencils. It actually blended them pretty well.

Then I discovered that the g. a. gave things a nice sheen and seemed to brighten the colors. So for my ATC here, I did a paper collage from a travel folder and then coated the finished product with g. a.
Think Monday Think ATCs' theme is travel.

TMTA - transfers

This ATC was made for Think Monday Think ATC challenge. I used an alcohol inked background. My stamps are by Stampendous and See D's.

I took one of my earlier works, reduced it to fit an ATC and printed it via my inkjet printer onto some Sheer Heaven transfer paper. From there I transferred it directly onto the alcohol inked background.

Sheer Heaven is one of the most versatile "papers". I love to play with it. Since it does cost a bit, I usually print off a number of things onto a sheet of it and cut them apart. One thing that isn't advertised, of course, is that SH is reusable. A squirt of alcohol and a quick rub will wipe the image right off and the SH is ready to be reused.

TMTA - triangles

I made this background last night not knowing how I'd use it. I used watercolor paper and put down some color using watercolor pencils and crayons. When that wasn't enough I dipped into some real tube watercolors. The brown is from Moon Shadow sapphire ink. The sapphire doesn't show in the scan but the walnut ink part looks ok. The stamp is from Stampinback and the embossing powder is Stampendous garnet. I tried to place the flowers in a triangle. The gold triangle touches all 3 flower heads.

Triangles is the theme for Think Monday Think ATCs.

I will probably make this into a greetings card with a sentiment placed in the upper right.

TMTA - Orange

Here is my orange ATC for the Think Monday Think ATCs challenge this week. The background was made by laying down acrylic paints and mica sprays onto my craft sheet. I then laid down a sheet of card stock to soak up some of the colors. I am sorry that this wasn't able to scan well. The butterfly is a 3-D bead so it warped the scan a bit. Above the butterfly is a wonderful metallic ribbon. The tulips were stamped onto watercolor paper and then colored with watercolor pencils. I'm tired of winter so I decided to go spring.

Theme Thursday - Flourish

For my entry to Theme Thursday's challenge of Flourish, I used one of the resist backgrounds I made this week. I had scanned it to the computer so the rest of the ATC was made digitally. The fashionable lady and the newspaper came from DezinaWorld. The butterflies are from a digital stamp I had made from a picture of a monarch butterfly.

TMTA - Good Morning

Good Morning is the theme for Think Monday Think ATCs. My ATC was made on a heavy cardstock that had been painted with acrylic paints, a little gesso, and some sprays and mists. The cup is one of the Cuttlebug embossing folders. I rubbed a light colored pastel chalk over it to bring out the embossing. The "I love you a latté" is a stamp my son gave me.

TMTA - buttons

For the Think Monday Think ATC challenge using buttons, I have made mine from a sprayed, misted, painted, and gessoed background. The stamps are Purple Onion and Stampin' Up.

TMTA - Zeitung

My entry for Think Monday Think ATC is one using a wedding announcement from the newspaper along with some digital brushes and such. The bride comes from the Dover freebies.

TMTA - Christmas Figures

Think Monday Think ATCs'  theme this week is figures of Christmas. What could be more basic than the manger scene? Here is a creche I made a few years ago. My sister did the wood carving and I did the painting. (Some of you saw this picture on my other blog. I have used that to make this digital ATC.)

TMTA - Children's Books

I grew up on Billy Whiskers books. My mother owned several in the series, which were published in the early 1900s, and she read them to me and my sister as bedtime stories. I believe the covers of hers weren't colorful like this picture. I remember there was a light blue book and a tan book. I think there may have been one or two more. The mother and daughter are Dover images. The theme for Think Monday Think ATCs this week is children's books.

We're still having computer problems.  But we should be back to normal soon.

Blue Bird ATC

Think Monday Think ATCs is encouraging us to do art today using a bird and the color blue. I found this Dover Publications freebie of Van Gogh's  painting. The bird is also from Dover. The bear? Was it from Art Creations Friday? The Li'l Redhead is my drawing.

TMTA - red, black, and white

Here is my entry for the Think Monday Think ATCs challenge this week. I have used red card stock to stamp my holly on, lace, and fabric flowers. All these were mounted on the 2.5x3.5" red card stock. I used the white marking pen to outline and to letter.

Alice in Wonderland ATC - tgif

Using Dover freebies, I am adding this whimsical "Alice at the Tea Party" ATC. It's entirely digital.

My Alice ATC uses some images I got online from the New York Public Library.. TGIF's challenge this week is to do an ATC with Alice in Wonderland as the theme.

TMTA - Brown

Here is my digiATC that I did from a relatively unviewed piece of art I made for another challenge last week. It is 2.5" x 3.5", the regulation ATC size. Sepia has such an old-world look about it. Looking at these merged images one can hardly help but notice that while she seems elated, he looks a little doubtful. The theme for TMTA is Brown.

TMTA - Autumn

Autumn is the theme this week of Think Monday Think ATCs. Here is my version, using a background furnished by Art Creations Friday some time ago.

Traditionally, an ATC is a 2.5" x 3.5" trading card with art on it instead of sports figures. It began as a traded-only piece of art. Today I was saddened to learn that here in Arkansas some ATCs are sold, not traded. I am wondering if this is a trend that is universal or if it is a local thing. I was told that some ATCs done in oils bring $20 per card. Does this upset anyone else besides me?

Flourishes ATC

I love flourishes. It was quite a while before I got my first flourish stamps and now I can't live without them. This stamp is one of Purple Onion Designs. The background is one of Dover images and had its own flourishes. I'm sorry I can't remember where the lovely lady came from.

This is probably my last post for a while since I have house guests coming tomorrow. Maybe late next week I'll be able to enter another challenge. We'll see.

This ATC was done for Theme Thursday.

TMTA - mixed media

My ATC for Think Monday Think ATC is a paper and cloth collage, using scraps from a seed catalog and some tulle, plus gesso.

TMTA - Architecture

Architecture is the theme for Think Monday Think ATC. All the images on my ATC come from the Dover freebies.

I'd appreciate the opinions of some of you on my Events Calendar.

TMTA - Marilyn Monroe

I used Marilyn's picture for last week's Think Monday Think ATC so I am just reusing her photo with a different background. The background for this ATC is one that I had previously made using wax resist technique. I don't remember who showed us how to do this but I used wax paper, a cuttlebug folder and cardstock that was misted with homemade mica mists.