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Teal(ish) Flower ATCs

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Teal(ish) Flower ATCs

Over at scrapbook.com “MarciLB” hosts a monthly ATC swap with four categories. For July, “Flowers” was one of those categories, and these are the ATCs that popped into my little head! I’m also entering in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge! The background is some thin, self-adhesive cork that I didn’t even remember owning until I went digging through my stash looking for inspiration! (I believe I bought it at Hobby Lobby)

That “fishnet” ribbon got a total make-over! I’ve had it for years, and had used the majority of it previously. It was originally a dark teal and green with glitter. I changed that. I could have worked with the dark teal piece, but I didn’t have enough for all four ATCs! I slapped on some Tim Holtz Distress Grit-Paste pressed the ribbon into it and used Tim Holtz’s Tiny Attacher to hold the ends in place. After it dried I started painting the background with white acrylic paint! I used paint instead of gesso because it is thicker, and I needed coverage! (As for the origins of the ribbon, I know I received it in one of my first kits from “Birds of a Feather,” and I received kits for close to 18 months I believe. Unfortunately as of February 2016 kits were no longer offered.)

Some old bits of fishnet “ribbon” that got a make-over!

The flowers are made up of a combination of Prima E-line flowers and flowers from Prima’s Wildflower Pillar Pack. The gems came in the same kit as the ribbon.

A closer look at the flower cluster!

Those two metal filigree pieces are even older that the ribbon and gems! After I added them I painted them with the white acrylic paint as well.

After everything was glued down and coated with some acrylic paint (The gems are the only parts I didn’t put paint on!) I started spritzing on some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in “Tinsel” and “Sweet Mint,” and some Shimmerz Vibez “Jeni B Bleu.”

List of Products:

  • White acrylic paint
  • Tim Holtz Distress Grit-Paste
  • Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Tinsel and Sweet Mint
  • Shimmerz Vibez: Jeni B Bleu
  • Prima Flowers: white E-line mix and Wildflower Pillar Pack
  • Unknown: Filigree, ribbon, gems
  • Cork Background: Probably from Hobby Lobby

No Spell Check

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No Spellcheck {or backspace}

This is the typewriter I learned to type on! The kind where you need reinforced fingers to “hammer” those keys down! I still own this typewriter, it was my dad’s, and I still use it when I want authentic typing.

Kaisercraft “Art of Life” Collection

I dug out some Kaisercraft papers I’ve had hoarded for I don’t know how long and decided they would work perfectly for my vintage style page about my vintage typewriter!

Transparent gesso; nuvo “Aquamarine” mousse; Shimmerz “Coal” Paint; Tim Holtz “Typo” Stencil
Distress Oxides “Vintage Photo” and “Broken China”
Distress Crayons “Vintage Photo” and “Black Soot”

I knew I was going to be folding down some of the top of this paper, I didn’t want it to be white, I didn’t want to add gesso, and I didn’t want any inks to possibly bleed through. My solution? Distress Crayons!

Before adding “Broken China” Distress Oxide
Inked up with Distress Oxides & sprayed with water to “activate”
The button is from {A Flair For Buttons}
Some Thickers Corrugated Letters, and some puffy alphas from Hip Kit Club!
 Product List: 
  • Shimmerz Paint: “Coal”
  • Hip Kit Club Exclusive Alphas for “Spell” 
  • The button/flair: {A Flair For Buttons} Etsy Shop  
  • Advantus – Tim Holtz – Idea-ology Collection – Ephemera Pack – Expedition
  • Thickers – Corrugated – Kraft Charm
  • Fancy Pants – Swagger Collection – 12 x 12 Cardstock Stickers
  • Kaisercraft – Art of Life Collection – “Film Strip” & ” Remember”
  • Martha Stewart Crafts – “Scallop Dot” Edge Punch
  • Maya Road Chipboard Shipping Tags
  • Tim Holtz Distress Crayons Set 3 (Vintage Photo & Black Soot)
  • Tim Holtz Distress Oxides – Broken China & Vintage Photo
  • Tim Holtz “Typo” Layering Stencil
  • Tim Holtz Journaling Tickets
  • Tonic Studios – Nuvo Embellishment Mousse – Aquamarine 
  • Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – Paper Distresser 
  • The papers under the photo, the swirly gold paperclip, the heart, and “captured” all came in a RAK from Vivian Lake @ scrapbook.com (May 2017 Not To Be Squared Challenge) 
  • A bit of hemp twine  
  • Teal thread

Anchor’s Away!

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Another ATC to share! I don’t have photos of the process along the way, mostly because the process took way too long! But it’s a rather straight forward ATC…I think! But, I am going to give a list of products!
Anchor’s Away ATC!

**The anchor is a cut file from the Silhouette Store.

**Machines used: Silhouette Cameo & Sizzix Big Shot.

Products:

  • Lawn Fawn: Dye Ink Pad: Peacock (used with the Compass Stamp…which bled more than I expected!)
  • Distress Grit Paste (used with the Echo Park stencil)
  • Shimmerz: Dazzlerz: Spun Sugar (I mixed the Broken China Distress Oxide in it before applying)
  • Creative Essentials Laminated Burlap (white, for the BG)
  • The little bit of burlap looking stuff under the sand dollar is from The Paper Company
  • Hemp twine
  • Water color paper (anchor)
  • Chipboard with white gesso on it (seahorse and sand dollar)
  • Eyelets from I don’t know where
  • Echo Park – Summer Fun Collection – 6 x 6 Stencil – Beach Towel
  • Ranger Ink – Glossy Accents
  • Distress Collage Medium – Vintage
  • Distress Oxides Ink Pads – Peeled Paint, Broken China, & Iced Spruce
  • Distress Stains – Fossilized Amber & Cracked Pistachio
  • Distress Spray Stain – Rusty Hinge
  • Sizzix – Tim Holtz – Framelits Dies and Repositionable Rubber Stamps – Compass Blueprint
  • Spellbinders – D-Lites Die – Seahorse and Sand Dollar
  • Prima – Snowflake Paste
  • Prima – Watercolor Confections – Decadent Pies

Elixir of Life

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Hello everyone! Today I have a set of ATCs I created for the June ATC Swap over at scrapbook.com hosted by MarciLB (A Scrap From Marci)! The category? Medicine! And here’s the story of how I came up with these ATCs! I kept thinking and thinking of what to do for this category, and it really had me stumped! I wasn’t even sure I’d get them done I was so stumped! Thankfully MarciLB has a “your interpretation” rule! As I sat at my computer one day sipping on coffee it made me think of how the husband has always referred to coffee as the “elixir of life,” which led me to think about how an elixir is “a magical or medicinal potion.” Therefore, coffee is medicine! (And let’s face it, it is rather magical…)

Elixir of Life ATCs
Elixir of Life ATCs
I used (half) of a manila folder as the background material for my ATCs, and added a layer of Shimmerz AcriTonez 3 Sheets to the Wind as my base coat and used my heat gun to dry it. I wanted to use a make-up wedge to spread the Vicki Boutin paint on, but I couldn’t find package of them! I am the only (human) female in the house, and I lost my own make-up wedges! I did end up finding an old sponge in my make-up box that disintegrated after the one use, but it managed to serve it’s purpose.
Saltwater Taffy – Acrylic Paint Set 2 (American Crafts)
Old sponge from the center of the applicator in a pressed powder compact!

After heat drying the layer of Saltwater Taffy I added a layer of Daiquiri Ice with a baby wipe!

Daiquiri Ice – Acrylic Paint Set 2 (American Crafts)

After the Daiquiri Ice was spread on and dried I cut out my ATCs (2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″)! At first I had only planned on using Barely Beige Dye Ink by Simon Says Stamp for the stamping on the background, but as I inked the edges of the ATCs (after lightly sanding) with Ground Espresso Distress Ink, I decided to “re-stamp” the backgrounds! I didn’t want full coverage with the Ground Espresso, so I placed the stamp (Stampabilities: Grungy Grid Background) on it’s back, placed my ATC on the stamp, and randomly pressed and tapped the ATCs on the stamp!

Only stamped with Barely Beige by Simon Says Stamp

Edges lightly sanded and inked with Ground Espresso Distress Ink

Adding the Ground Espresso to the background!

After I had the backgrounds finished, I worked on the Mini Crazy Cats (Tim Holtz Mini Crazy Cats & Dogs stamps & dies). As the cats were drying I worked on the cup of coffee and the phrase, both from Simon Says Stamp Coffee and Tea Stamp Set.

Almost done! Just adding the steam!

The cup of coffee was stamped with Lawn Fawn’s Fake Tan and embossed with a la mode clear embossing powder, and the phrase was embossed with Wendy Vecchi’s Watering Can!

The quick overview of the cat and milk bottle! They are stamped with Ranger’s Black Archival Ink, cut with my Sizzix Big Shot using the (extended) magnetic platform & extended cutting pads, and colored, using a Ranger Water Brush (Nib), with the following:

  • Abandoned Coral, Black Soot, Candied Apple, Fossilized Amber, Ground Espresso, Picket Fence, Tumbled Glass, Weathered Wood, and Wild Honey Distress Markers.

The coffee cup and saucer are colored with:

  • Fossilized Amber & Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxides
  • Shimmerz Orange Sherbet

And, the coffee is Distress Paint Ground Espresso! 

    1st Altered Book

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    I had been keeping this generic black pleather journal around for quite some time but I always knew it was missing something. That something was apparently me getting the idea to alter it, originally inspired by various “Steampunk” journals I had seen. The most I had ever written in it was my name for “This book belongs to:” and a couple of thoughts on the first two pages. That was it!! Now I am going to make it something more. Over the past year I have taken a major turn toward traditional healing a.k.a. herbal healing. I got tired of seeing “if you or a loved on took this medicine and is now dead or permanently messed up you may be entitled to compensation.” Money isn’t going to return quality of life. Anyhow, being someone who is required to have some sort of medication on a daily basis I went back to nature, and this is going to be my “recipe” book.

     This is the new front cover. Some fabric flowers that I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink on … they used to be much brighter colors! A couple of resin black roses, some Tim Holtz gears, a few brads … Also, I did make that leather Triquetra on my own! I cut the slits on the background leather and wove the other strips of leather through. I am currently adding some silk ribbon embroidery to the cover as well. And yes, I am covering the pleather with leather … well suede.

     Inside the front cover with my “This book belongs to:” window in the fabric. I had to add this fabric because after all the treatment to the pages and spine I wanted to give a clean finish.

     This is at the very center of the book. Just some rub-ons for the flowers, some self-stick butterfly boarder, and some tissue tape.

     Blank pages. It was a long process of spraying and drying. And to help with the drying and aging I utilized my oven … and melted the glue in the spine … but I like it better this way, it’s more aged.