Another one.

Here you are another card hot off the presses! Just love this colour combination:)

Bird House

Late last year my german stamping friend Ingeborg and I agreed on an ATC swap on the theme of birds. When I had made my ATC's I thought it would be fun to put them in a birdhouse to send them to her. So I designed and made a birdhouse and decorated it. The roof lifts off and the ATC's are tucked inside. Then I packed it very carefully and posted it off to Germany! I have just heard from Ingeborg that it arrived safely...woohoo.

Altered postcard

My friend Marion gave me some old postcards her mother had collected, she thought I may be able to use in my card making.
Well 0500 one morning recently I could not sleep so got up and needing to make a card for my aunt's 80th birthday I took a good look at the postcards I had been given.
After adding a bit of silk ribbon, some artifical leaves and flowers and mounting the image on suitable matching paper and cardstock this is the result.

Old technique

While looking through some folders I have that hold info on all the different techniques I have tried or plan to try at some stage I came across the instructions for a background technique that a friend Sue Thiel had used on a birthday card for me. The date of her answer to my query on how it was done was November 2000!

Well I read and re read the instructions and thought I understood but felt if I could just see the card again it would gel better in my mind. I am a very visual type person:) Now I am also a hoarder, yep I have every card ever sent to me by stampers from when I first started stamping! I am also a bit "obsessive" so everything is in boxes or folders pertaining to the year they were received! So after climbing up onto the table which has a large bookcase on it as well as my computer...to get at all these boxes of cards...yippee I found my birthday cards from 2000. Sure enough there was the card Sue had sent me. The instructions had been quite detailed but it was still nice to see the real thing.

Next was to have a go and this is the result.

The pink one is my version of Sue's card.

A DTP (direct to paper) and sponging technique. Make a mask for the whole card then tear a large corner off it. Sponge the torn border with white ink- move the mask over the white a smidgen and then start with the coloured inks. The small white border gives the whole layered effect. Then use the other piece of the mask to go back the other way with coloured ink. Now stamp some background images using your mask to avoid getting any colour on the white line. I used a script stamp and a spray splatter stamp. Your main image can then be stamped using the mask again so it does not show on the white line.

The rest of my creations.

Here are the other ATC's, all very 3D and as my husband pointed out very difficult to post...why does he have to be so practical...it takes out all the fun....LOL

I have had a very creative day.

Well what a day .... I have done nothing but make ATC's!!

Last night at the monthly ATC group I attend one of the girls was smitten with Melissa Phillip's "shabby chic" style and was making an ATC accordingly. I got home and figured I could do that and promptly made an ATC before going to bed, as you do:) Then today I got up and started again only leaving off to go out and purchase some flowers and ribbon needed to complete my projects.

This is last nights effort, I even made my own roses, thanks for the impromptu lesson Bev.

Update on Alphabet Swap

There are 4 ATC's in the alphabet swap that you needed to see the inside of to get the full message. Here they are.
Bev Robinson's letter I for Image. This is Bev's also letter F.

This one is by Joan McAlpine and is letter D.

This is one of mine also for letter D.