February 2010 COF Swap

For February we were to make an ATC using the theme "Childhood Memories".   As a little girl I was always out riding my bike so when I saw this vintage image of bike riding I just had to use it.

For the background I used my Cuttlebug and the Steel Plate embossing folder.  Once it was embossed I rubbed several colors of Distressed in over the pattern to bring it out,  The Image is from Altered Pages and I attached it to the background, then I created the bottle cap image.  To make the bottle cap purple I used Alcohol ink in Raspberry.  I added the picture and then filled the cap with Diamond Glaze.  I know it's hard to see it here, but it does look much better in person.  To balance out the little picture I added beads to the top corner and the opposite lower corner.  I hope everyone likes their card.

Thanks for stopping by for a quick like at my latest work.  I now off to get a birthday card done for my hubby - his birthday is Wed - yes I know I'm cutting this really close.  LOL!!!  Have a great day all.

Advent ATC's Day Five

This is the ATC that I did for Day 5

and this is the one I got from Dawn.

Advent ATC's Day Four

Here is the Advent ATC I made for Day Four

This is the card that I got from Cheryl

Advent ATC's Day Three

This is the Day Three ATC that I made and

here is the Day Three that I received from Andrea

Advent ATC's Day Two

This was the Day Two ATC that I made.

Here is Day Two that I received from Michelle.

Advent ATC's Day One

I have done a swap on Circle of Friends and we did an Advent Calender using ATC Cards. I am going to try and post each days cards that I made and the ones that I received back in the trade. So here we will start with December 1st - Day One

This was my Day One

This is Day one that I received from Janice.

RAK For a Friend

I just finished this really cute ATC so I thought I would let everyone have a look. I have been wanting to use one of these Beach Collage images from Altered Pages and I finally found the perfect combination, I think.

The ATC base was stamped with a Background Text stamp and then I added some Distressed inks in Shabby Shutters and Worn Lipstick. I placed the image on a green patterned paper and use Eucalyptus Glitter Glue around the edge of the image. I added the words and a few blue half pearls.

COF July Swap

For the month of July Andrea is hosting a swap where she sent each of us different products and we were to make ATC's for the group. I finished mine on Friday and wanted to share them. I received Blue cardstock, a blue/green pattern paper, some square buttons and a roll of colored tape for my Dymo Labeler. Here is what I came up with.

I added beads, Grungepaper, a stripe of paper that I embossed and sanded, and Twinkling H2O paint.

First I used H2O's in Iridescent Green on the blue cardstock, then I cut a stripe of the pattern paper with a zig zag edge. For the flower I used a flower die from Quickuts and cut them out of the Grungepaper. I painted them with Mountain Rose Paint Dabbers and a pink H2O to add the needed sparkle and shine. For the embossed edge I worked with Sandable cardstock from Core'dinations with a whitewash finish and a pink underneath. Once embossed I sanded it to bring out the color from under the white. I added the Friends title and there you have it.

Thanks for stopping by for a look at my latest work.

Elvis ATC's

I recently received a collage sheet full of wonderful pictures of Elvis and I took two of the images and made these ATC's.

For the first one I have these tiny deck of cards so I took out a King because we all know Elvis is the King of Rock and Roll!!  On the green background I used Distressed Ink in Pine Needle and I added a bit of ribbon that's stapled with green staples.         

On the second card I used GrundgePaper and cut out the letters and then painted t

hem with Twinkling H2O's, I know it's hard to  see in the picture,

 but the letters do have a sparkle to them.  I added a bit of ribbon and used Distressed Ink  in  Tea Dyed around the edges of the card.

COF Journal

I got my Journal to work on for April and can you believe it - I'm already done with it so I thought I would post it for those that want to see.  For this Journal you had to pick three words from a list and use them in an ATC, but you could not use any words - just pictures to represent the words.  The words I used were: flower, girl and undergarment.  They just popped right out at me and I know right away what I wanted to do.  I know I had an image of a lady in a corset from Altered Pages, and it worked perfectly.

I took a piece of green paper from Basic Grey, stamped a few flourishes on it using Distressed Ink in Pine Needle, I also used this around the edges for added color.  I added tiny flowers from Prima and used Distressed Stickles Glitter Glue for the centers.  I  also added Diamond glitter glue around the edges for the corset for added sparkle.  A girl can never have to much sparkle!!   I added a few crystals that I dyed green using Alcohol Ink in Bottle, on the card and a crystal flower at the top.

Thanks for taking a look.

Altered Pages Swap

I joined a 4/4 swap for Altered Pages and here are the four cards I ended up makeing:
I thought since I needed four cards that doing the four seasons made perefect sense. All the images are from Altered Pages and I added ribbon, glitter and embellishments to fit each season. All the words wer created using my trusty Dymo Labeler. Can't wait to see what wonderful little pieces of art I will be getting back.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Altered Pages ATC

One of the ladies at Altered Pages put out a Quick Challenge - make an ATC using a quote from your favorite movie.

My favorite all time favorite movie is Gone With The Wind and of course Rhett captured my heart many years ago when I first saw the movie with my best friend. I used a hand made paper for the background and I added Distressed Ink in Vintage Photo and Worn Lipstick to add just a bit to the background. The image is from Altered Pages, I composed the saying on the computer and then added Distressed Ink in Tea Dyed to give it an aged look. I used the green ribbon just as a little extra accent.

Skinny Saturday - Be Inspired

The challenge this week for Skinny Saturday is:

This weeks theme is to create a Skinny and incorporate an ATC into it……..any theme goes so be inspired this week at Skinny Saturday!!!

My take on a Skinny and an ATC. I have attached the ATC by using a hinge sticker. I used a few scraps of paper and I used pink glitter pen around the pictures. The Kitty pictures is from a collage sheet from Alter Pages. The background is a metallic cardstock.

TGIF - Flowers

This will be my first submission to TGIF - Here's the challenge:

Today we want you to create something around Flowers

I took a green cardstock for my base, the vase is from a collage sheet from Altered Pages. I added the flowers to the vase, a sidebar in blue with pink flowers on top, I used glitter pens, pink and blue on the edges. The saying is computer generated and printed on a shinny vellum in blue. The little lady bug is from K & Co.

Thanks for taking a look and please leave a comment.

Think Monday Think ATC

The theme this week is:

This week is all about the African continent.

For this ATC it used a green cardstock from Bazzill with a little Tea Dyed ink along the edges. I stamped my image, from Paper Artsy, on a very light yellow cardstock with VersaMark ink and then sprinkled some different colors of Distressed Embossing powders over the image. I used Weathered Wood, Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Tea Dyed and Antique Linen. I stamped Africa with Pearlized Choc added a irridescent ribbon and covered the piece with Diamond Glaze. The other letters are Crystal Stickers.

Thanks for taking a look, and feel free to comment.