Going postal

I didn’t manage to create a Wonderland card for The Altered Alice, but I’d like to enter a non-Alice ATC that does fit the ‘going postal’ theme:

The background was created with Distress Stains.

I’d also like to enter this ATC into the following challenges:

Stamps used

  • Winged man & sentiment: Tim Holtz
  • Script background: Darkroom Door
  • Flourish: Crafty Individuals
  • Obliteration marks: Scrollswork
  • Faux postage stamp:  A Capella

Vintage bicycle

I’d like to share with you an ATC I made for a personal swap.

Image

It’s a versamark resist background on glossy paper brayered with adirondack inks and stamped with Archival ink.The edges are heat embossed in gold.

I’d like to enter this atc into the following challenges:

Stamps used

  • Scratches and sentiment: Tim Holtz
  • Script background: Darkroom Door
  • Postage marks: Scrolls Work
  • Bicycle: Katzelkraft

Vintage cyclist

This week, Think Monday Think ATC wants to see bicycles and My time to craft focuses on hats. This vintage gentleman surely rides an impressive specimen and he’s wearing a stylish hat too.

I created the background using Jennifer McGuire’s acrylic bloc method, for this is the current challenge @ Yahoo Group “Creatief met stempels”. All stamps used are Katzelkraft, except for the script background, which is Darkroom Door.

Focus on a sentiment

Sunday Stampers’ Hels wants to see sentiments this week. Here’s an ATC featuring one of my favourite Tim Holtz sentiment and his notorious umbrella man. The buildings in the background are by Oxford Impressions.

Thanks for looking!

Masculine ATC using scraps

Combining two fun challenges resulted in this masculine ATC, which is entirely made of scraps:

Here’s my pile of scraps :

And here’s a smaller selection of all scraps and backgrounds that I chose from for this ATC:

For the background I used the “Antique wallpaper” technique featured in the Technique Junkie’s June/July 2010 newsletter. The man and the hat  belong to Oxford Impressions’ “Steampunk Element” sheet. The tag was punched out and decorated using Tim Holtz’ “design scrap” stamp. I stamped the letters individually on the tag to form the word “chapeau”.

I’d like to enter this ATC to:

Friendship warms the heart

On 1 September Art Journey launched its own monthly challenge and they chose “friends” as their first theme. Here’s my ATC, featuring an Art Journey stamp as main image and a Scrolls Work sentiment stamp.

As friendship is a heartwarming theme and the colours I used are “warm colours”, I also would like to enter this ATC to this week’s Mixed Media Monday challenge: Warm it up.  Thanks for looking!

Gothic arch “men”

Here’s my man for the Inkurable Stampers gothic arch challenge. I initially wanted to create a kind of resist footprints with Glossy Accents, but I didn’t like the result at all. I almost decided to throw away my arch, but then I thought of stamping the footprints again with Black Stazon and liked the result better, so my arch was saved.

Stamps used

Man & sentiment:  Stampinback
Path : Sutter Stamps
Footprint: Stampcraft
Leaves: Art Journey

Playing with ink and water

Crazy Amigo challenged us to play with ink and water on our craft sheet. I’d already tried this technique several times, but never with the results I hoped for. Today, I gave it another try, for I really want to make a couple of ATCs to be able to swap next weekend at the Art Journey Event.

The Vitruvian man is by Cherry Pie, the text stamp by Crafty Individuals.