ATC ~ Journey

Had messy fun with this one. Layers of acrylic and crackled paint, Perfect Pearls, stamping as well as using Beadazzles.

Close-up of the cracks, sheen and various textures.

ATC ~ Bloom & Grow

This ATC is made from repurposed corrugated cardboard and splotched with a bunch of Mica Magic Inkpads. Parts of the edges are inked and embossed. The layered flower is distressed and stickled, while the leaf is stamped, distressed-embossed and cut-out. Got a few more stuffs I'm working on (at snail's pace) involving corrugated cardboard ...


A close-up of the textures from the various embossing effects and the metallic sheen of the Mica Magic Inkpads.

ATC ~ J's Garden

J made this ATC some months back but it somehow got lost in her stuff and only recently reappeared again. This is done with colour pencils, depicting a butterfly hovering above this strange, err ... I mean, extraordinary flower. This is a 'special' rainbow butterfly - so says J.

ATC ~ The Cools

Made these for a swap via Malaysian Scrappers Society blog. Must apologise for the blah photos - it was deadline for mailing out these babies and the only chance I had to photograph this ... the weather is crummy. So anyway, I had fun playing with inks again, everything created from scratch (with use of inks and masking and reinkers and embossing, and so on), except the blue-green pattern paper (which I LOVE) from Autumn Leaves.



Some close-ups. But sheesh! I still hate how 'dreary' the colour looks with the crappy lighting.

Favourite foil heart colour (at this angle, at least).

Supplies - Inks: Adirondack Inkpads, Tim Holtz Distress Inkpads and Reinkers, Adirondack Alcohol Inks; Ranger Embossing Powders; Autumn Leaves pattern paper; Prima stamp; Bazzill Cardstock; Cuttlebug; Foil Tape.

ATC = A Travelling Card (?)

Sweet! A couple of my ATCs have been featured in a new blog a dear friend set up. It's no big biggie, but it's still a teeny biggie at that ... haha. Anyway, this fella and this fella have now travelled to this new home - how cool is that! Makes me wish I was an ATC too *wink*.

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ATC ~ Love II

This is the last ATC using the same swirl stamp, this time done with a different colour-combi ... forest colours. Less of a mess this time so I decided to 'crack' the fella. So here's what 'happened'.

Distress-embossed on vellum and I love the aged effect it produced. Also a clearer view of the cracks.

Supplies - Stamp: Autumn Leaves; Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Inkpad, Colorbox Mica Magic, Tsukineko Brilliance; Flower: Prima; Others: brad, vellum, Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder, Ranger Crackle Accents.

ATC ~ Love

Another ATC I made using the same Autumn Leave swirl stamp (there will be a last ATC using the same swirl stamp coming up). This one's simpler but still lots of fun. See the blue? I'm totally in love with the colour - Nick Bantock's Reinker in Cerulean Blue - if I could, I would paint an entire room in this colour!





Okay, this baby was 'tortured' with reinkers, acrylic paints, crackle paints, embossing and Memory Foil Tape. And somewhere amidst the chaos, tissue paper came into the picture too ...

Supplies - Paper: water colour paper, tissue paper, recycled chipboard (heart); Inks: Nick Bantock Reinkers, Colorbox Fluid Chalk Inkpad; Paint: Making Memories, Ranger Distress Crackle Paint; Others: Embossing Powder, Ranger Memory Foil Tape, Modge Podge.

ATC ~ Savour The Journey

I love mixed media art, love playing with inks and paints and what-nots. This is a result of all that and a whole bunch more. The plus point? I had LOADS of fun. Can't wait to play some more!





Edges are inked with Mica Magic inkpads - love the gorgeous sheen. Before that a whole 'mess' of other stuff happened. The butterfly was stamped and embossed at certain areas for the extra texture. Picked up the wonderful tip of running paper through those good ol' tag makers from Tim Holtz's blog and loved how it turned out.

Supplies - Paper: water colour paper, text paper, Fancy Pants pp; Stamps: Autumn Leaves, Inkadinkado; Inks: Nick Bantock Reinkers, Mica Magic Inkpads, Colorbox Cat's Eye Chalk Inkpads, Distress Inkpads; Paints: Making Memories; Others: 3D adhesives, Modge Podge, SnC Embossing Powder, Dymo Tag Maker.

ATC ~ Dreams

It's amazing how a few drops of inks can transform, from this ....

... to this, by spritzing with a mister ...

... to this, by drying with a heat tool ...

... to this little baby. Enjoy the process!

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Supplies – Inks: Nick Bantock Reinker, Tim Holtz Distress Reinker, Tim Holtz Distress Inkpads; Pen: Zig Writer; Stamp: Inque Boutique, Hero Arts; Others: Ranger Inkssentials Memory Foil Tape, SnC Embossing Powder, EK Success 3D Dots.

ATC ~ Travel

Had fun playing with inks and made this little ATC. The left backgroup strip is foil tape and the right strip is paper with inks with smudges embossed with Tim Holtz's Distress Embossing Powder.



To show the details of the stamped transparency which I had 'stickled' from the back - you can see little specks of glitter through it. It's background is done with alcohol inks on foil tape (love the shine!) and the textured part (the bottom) is done with reinkers on tissue paper.

Close-up of the 'fun' part - the texture with the ink mix. The edges are embossed in copper.

Supplies - Inks: Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Inks, Ranger Nick Bantock Reinkers, Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinkers; Inkpad: Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inkpad, Tsukineko Staz-On; Embossing Powder: Scrap-n-Crop, Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Emboss Powder; Others: Stickles, foil-tape, transparency, tissue paper.