Double kissed ATC

DISCLAIMER - my shift key is busted.  If it isn't on the first row or accessible with my capslock, I can't type it.

Kissing techniques - the first one I was forced into.  Too much colorwash spray on one piece of watercolor paper inspired me to 'kiss' it to another piece to spread the ink around a bit.  Once I had kissing on the brain, I had to try kissing my stamps, too.  The solid bird is from nordic noel by AMuse Studio, and the leafy branch which I used both for the kissing and for stamping around the edges is bird on a flowering branch by SweetStamps.

I used a waterbrush to drag the ink on the leaves around, and a tiny bead of embossing frames the image.

Challenges -

• SweetStamps - kissing
• Emerald Fairies - wings
• Stemplesonne - animal
• Craft Room Challenge - water tech - waterbrush 

Ugh - I need a new keyboard...

Stitched snowflake ATC

The altereddesigns group challenge this week was to make an ATC with sewing on it. I have a punch that punches holes so that you can easily embroider flowers onto paper.  It occurred to me that it could be used to stitch snowflakes just as easily.

I used the punch for the big ones, and did the smaller ones freehand.  I had a hard time figuring out what I could do to make the the snowflake panel into a complete ATC other than framing it with layers, but then I looked out the window, and saw the trees with their bare branches.  I used the seasonal branch stamp set from AMuse Studio and the depth of field technique to stamp the branches, and then I used the faux embossed metal technique to create a tiny embellishment to tie the two parts together.

Challenges:

• Sweetstamps - winter blues
• Cuttin and Stampin - winter
• Simon Says Stamp - embossing
• The Paper Shelter - winter blues
• Mod Squad - snow

Zentangled flower

This was inspired by a card on Pintrest that a friend forwarded to me.  I don't do Pintrest, but I did like the card, and it inspired me to make this one.

The stamps are all from AMuse Studio, and instead of coloring, I zentangled inside each petal.  If it looks like I cut the flower out and layered it on, that's due to the faux shadow I created with a bit of pencil.  It's a single layer card, no embellishments, no coloring, and still, I am very proud of it.

Challenges:

• Delicious Doodles - flower
• Fussy and Fancy - monochromatic
• Keep It Simple - text
• Dream It Up - CAS
• Sassy Studio Designs - creative technique

Calendar ATC

I'm still here - I just didn't want my Christmas cards to be seen by the people who were going to get them before I mailed them!

My altereddesigns group had a challenge to make an ATC for New Year's, and I really don't have any of the celebratory feelings about the new year that most people do - it's really just the end of the holiday break ,and time to hang a new calendar.  I decided that is what I would do with my ATC:

It is super easy to make a little calendar; I have been using this free program for years.  for the backing, I just used some paper tape in layers, then diecut the numbers from a Tim Holtz alpha die, and the swallow die is from AMuse Studio.  The Tiny Attacher has the perfect size staples for this calendar.  I hope it doesn't get stuffed in an ATC folder - it is too useful for that!