Listen to the Music ATC

This week at Altered Designs the TGIF Challenge was Phone Book: Use something from the phone book in your creations... This weekends new challenge for Weekend Crafters is Listen to the Music. And so this is what I created for both challenges....

The base of the card was printed sheet music. I then took my handy colored pencils and colored it with pink, blue, green, and yellow blending the colors as I went. The image is from a swap I received from a friend so Im not sure where it is from. =( I used some of the white pages in different areas of the background from the phone book. Musick was the name I found. I didnt see anyone with Music as a name. sighs. but it works all the same =) The piano in the top corner is from the yellow pages. I just colored it a brighter yellow to match with the background. The Blue is actually grungeboard that I wrote Listen on with a Sharpee. I edged everything with a black sharpee. =)

Head over to Weekend Crafters and join in the challenge fun! Thanks for looking! Have a happy weekend all!

PAMC Challenge #8- Creative Flourishes

Its time for another Challenge at Paper Arts Mingles & Challenges [PAMC]! This week the very creative & talented Sara challenged us to be creative & create a piece using a flourish and an inspirational word or saying. This is my ATC for the challenge :) Here is another view of the ATC...

Materials used: Lime, maroon, and canary cardstock; Self stick gems by Darico; Fairy stamp by Studio G; Flourish stamp by Studio G; Be You stamp by Studio G; Black Dye ink by Stampabilities; Designer paper (not sure by who); Crystal glitter glue by Crayola; Prisma Colored Pencils

Check out the other Design Team Member's creations on the PAMC blog or check out the group on PaperCraftPlanet and if you are in the mood for a challenge jump on in, we'd love to see what you can do!

'Bling' ATC's for PAMC

I created these ATC's for this week's Bling Challenge over at PAMC. Toni was the host this week. Every one did great work! I loved the challenge. The Treasure The Moment ATC is my favorite :) I actually made the backgrounds for these ATC's for my tutorial on PAMC for the Bandana Technique :) If you get the chance check out the challenge at the blog HERE or you can visit the group HERE. Participate if you get the chance, the winner of the weekly challenge is featured on both sites & gets entered into a monthly drawing for a Grand Prize :)

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!

"Go Green" from PAMC

Sara, one of the DT members over at PAMC hosted this week's challenge "Go Green".... you can use anything green or recycle items to make new creations. -> I LOVED THIS CHALLENGE! <- To participate you can visit PAMC's Group & Join or Visit PAMC's Blog and link your creations in the comments section like most challenge blogs.

Does anyone remember Bill Nye the Science Guy? I used to looove watching his show and was just amazed at the things I learned. It was so entertaining but so educational! Well the other day while wandering through good ol' Walmart with my hubby by my side. I spotted Bill Nye on a bright blue and orange box. I stopped to look at it... it was an education craft kit on how to make you own paper from recycling paper scraps! AWESOME! So of course I couldn't help myself and decided to purchase the kit. It was only $15. Tim of course thought I was insane and chuckled at me, but I just ignore that .lol. eh, what can you say. lol.

This is the kit that I purchased just incase anyone is interested.

I thought this challenge was the perfect chance for me to use my kit! So I got it out and used some old scrap pieces of paper in green that I had and started the process. I made 3 sheets of green recycled paper with the kit. This is how they looked when I was finished.

They were really wet at this stage... and you are supposed to wait 24 hours before you use the paper so that it can dry.. but i'm impatient lol. So I got out my dryer and went to work drying the paper. .chuckles.

This is how the paper looked when it was dry....

It was really fun to use this kit and it actually did work! Once I had my recycled paper made. I went to work on my ATC for the project. I always try to recycle boxes, like cereal boxes, and other kinds of boxes that food may come in and etc. I cut the boxes up for sturdy backings for my atc's, arches, and other creations. It gives you a sturdy backing, and helps the environment!

Today I used one cut from a popcorn box.

After getting together my vintage image, stamps, needle,thread, button, word stickers, colord pencils,markers, and my homemade background paper I started essembling my ATC..... and... whalah!

There's alot going on with this ATC. I used my colored pencils to color the vintage image I used. She was a boring black and white, so I had to spruce it up a little & attached it to my background. Next I edged the word stickers I chose w/ my green marker & attached them. Next I stamped a heart image with Hunter Green ink & a heart stamp from Studio G onto cardstock. I cut it out and attached it. The next step was really time consuming! On the right hand side of the ATC I took Green floss and stitched down the side. I sewed on my green button with white thread and then sewed french knots into the spots of the heart. I wish you could see the 3d effect it all made a little better w/ the picture. sighs. The final step was edging the entire card w/ green marker.

[Note of advice: if you make homemade paper like I created... ink & markers run through the paper if you do not use plain gelatin in your mix. Not sure why but its a pain to discover @ the end of a project .lol]

Again it was lots of fun to participate. I loved seeing all the other creations from the DT members! Check them out at the group or the blog! They are fantastic! We are really hoping that the group & blog will flourish. We are all having tons of fun!

On another note, I found out this morning that I got the job I interviewed for a few weeks back! Yay! Im super excited and start tomorrow at 10 am! Wish me luck guys! Hoping everyone had a blast on St. Patty's Day!

With love,
Andrea

Fashion ATC's

This week's challenge over at Rainbow Lady's is Fashion. Its my first time participating in this challenge blog so I thought I would try it out. I had so much fun with the first ATC I made I thought I would make another one .lol. Head on over to Rainbow Lady's to see all the other entries and maybe even participate in this weeks challenge! :)

Halloween ATC Coffin Card

I know its way past Halloween *lol* but I did create this ATC coffin card for a swap in Artistic-Creations and I never got the chance to blog about it. So here it is *lol* It was fun, At first I wasnt sure about it but I think I like how it turned out. :)

p.s the little boy collage image came from Paper Imagery Designs ;)

'Destiny' ATC

'Destiny ATC'

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Today I created another random ATC... Im about to head back into my art room and work on some more, maybe do a challenge or two just for fun. There's alot going on in this little ATC =D I created the background using acrylic paints and the credit card technique. The colors I used were Robin's Egg Blue, Antique White, and Deep Sienna. I used a page from an old dictionary in a few places. The Image used is from a collage sheet freebie by Gaby at http://gaby-cajubrasil.blogspot.com/ The Word Destiny and the definition are printed on vellum and attached with vellum tape. I drew the wings, and layered blue and cream colored fiber flowers and braded them to her hat. I also edged the image in blue ink and edged the entire card in brown ink.

"Control your own destiny or someone else will." ~Jack Welch

Time for the theatre atc

I have been putting off blogging for a few days now and am a little behind so I thought I would catch up with what I have created. I created this ATC for a prize in Artistic-Creations via a Bingo game I was hosting.