ATC Collection: Childhood Sweethearts

Silhouetted Victorian children.

ATC Collection: Love Innocence

These ATCs are reflecting on that bygone era, where love was keen and innocent.

ATC Collection: Circus Treats

These ATCs are using clown Mamelok Relief Die cuts, and old cigar labels.

ATC Collection: Sewing Nostalgia

Here we go some more ATCs for inspiration. I've made these images smaller to capture the size better, than when I lasted posted my ATCs.

Paper Engineered Scrapbook Pages: Pirates of the South Pacific – Ahoy!

Not quite Pirates of the Caribbean, but alas it's our paper engineered pirate page, all ready for photos to be added.

The treasure chest is the item which pops up and the lid can then be opened, revealing treasures more. (I feel like a kid again).

And yes, that hole was made by flame (kids don't try that at home).

Paper Engineered Scrapbook Pages: Carousel Dreams

I know I have posted these pages earlier on, but my still photography has improved (I think), and therefore I am showing you new versions of this Basic Grey Lollipop double page scrapbook page.

The detail includes pins with tiny eye masks, peel craft masks covered in Basic Grey papers, a tiny horse cut out and layered in cardstock and then embossed with metallic silver giving the illusion it is made of metal.

Plus the background has been 'altered' giving it that aged look.

Paper Engineered Scrapbook Pages: Affection

These paper engineered pop up pages are made with Basic Grey's Sublime Collection (vellum from K & Co). Then vellum in the inside is by Autumn Leaves. The hearts are nested onto acetate paper, to appear as if they are floating in the air.

No photo has yet been put out the sheet, this is to give you an idea of the techniques (plus I have to find a suitable photo!)
Here the page is closed, tied with trim and soldered ephemera paper jewellery.
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Captivations

A selection of ATCs using various techniques such as wrapping fibres around the card, using matting and ribbon, and glass slides and glitter.

Roman Reminisces

Here are two ATCs reflecting the aesthetics of the Roman empire.

Five of Spades of Florence

Hessian Statue

ATC Collection

When scrapbooking a page or doing an altered art piece of work, you may often be left with literally scraps. But instead of throwing these away, keep them, as they make good material for ATCs.

ATC stands for Artist Trading Cards. The general idea is that you make a whole lot of one card and then trade them with others. But for me, well I only make one card, a one off collection, and I keep them. Only on rare occasions do I trade my cards, this is because I tend to use my ATCs more as a focal point for inspiration. They are great for doing when you have lost your creative urge, and they are so simple to make and not very time consuming.



If I am using up scraps I work with the card as if it is an empty canvas ready for some form of artistic treatment. So usually I don't have enough scraps left over to being doing more than one card, and I find it quite ... should I say boring ... when repeatedly making the same ATC card; so my one off ATCs are just that.

Here I have uploaded what my album looks like, as well as a selection of some of the cards (I'll post more later). I hope some of them will inspire you to create your own, or feel free to copy mine.




You can order the ATC Albums from www.scrapbookersdelight.co.nz or call into our store (7 Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland). We also have a special selection in the shop where you can buy ATC papers to quickly create your own cards. Another item we sell are fashion playing cards which you can use as a base for your ATC card.

The Rooms

This is a saucy piece of large art work by Tatjana Stefanovic.

And here are the details:

The Gay Phantom

I've recently enjoyed watching the Phantom of the Opera, both as a live performance and on video. Both were exhilarating. But I didn't like the Phantom, to me he was the evil dude (it's certainly not the story of the Beauty and the Beast).

Anyway, I have been inspired and have done this artwork. Below are some steps I took to create the 'gay Phantom'. That is, this Phantom is a HAPPY chap (well it could be a woman behind that mask).

This is a triptycht work using gel mediums and modelling paste, as well as tissues decoupaged on a background of pastelled red and orange love hearts. Words such as happy, gay and joy were rubbed on. Then there was a spritzing of Glimmer Mist, giving it that subtle iridescent look.





The mask has both eyes cut out, with one in the shape of a love heart. The Phantom wears a headband across his/her forehead with a few orange beads subtlety dangling down.

The embroidered panel down the side, is made from homemade silk paper and then machine embroidered with bits of ribbon and trim attached. It also underwent some Glimmer Mist spritzing.

Below are sketches done using the pastels. These images were done in a visual diary. Visual diaries are good to jot down ideas in picture form. So when I was symbolizing words such as love, laughter, anger, etc I drew colours and symbols that represented those scenes for me.


Close up views.
Here you can notice how the pastel has been smudged and that same technique has been applied onto the canvas and then gel medium pasted over this, followed by modelling paste. It will smear and bleed, but that is all part of the look.


This image above is to show what colours reflected the word happiness for me.