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.

Mini Album ~ My World

I decided that I had time to attempt Smidapaper's June challenge of coming up with a "mini book with soul" at the very last minute. Was completely inspired by the colour combination of the blues, greens and blacks. The cover might be temporary though as J is demanding for "her" notepad holder back. Anyway, it remains an album (for now) until she next looks for it.

A close-up of the little 'window' I made with the Hambly.

One of my favourite quotes by Oscar Wilde.

Update:-
To use the words of my 3-year-old ... Holy Toledo! I'm so excited!!! Okay, so before I got a chance to post this original post, I found out that I had actually won the challenge ... and this now resides with me. Can't stop smiling.

J's 'Journal'

J's been trying her hand at 'journalling' (if you can call it that) and has written something about herself, Papa and Mummy on this piece. You can sort of make out Ps and Ms around the place.

Here, she's trying to write about Bubbles (our dog). I guess you can vaguely make out some Bs and U along the way, but the rest leaves a lot to the imagination.

So it's not much of a journal, but I guess it has to start somewhere. And her excuse? "But I don't go to school yet!" She always has plenty of excuses on hand, only that this excuse it actually the truth. Yup, sicko Mummy doesn't send J to school ... maybe next year?

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*.

Do pop by to here to check out what the space is all about, tips, techniques and a whole lot more artsy-creative related stuff.

Undiscovered Picasso

I'm totally inspired by this colour these days - Cerulean Blue ... according to Nick Bantock, love that ink colour to bits. Finally managed to get off my busy schedule *ahem* (read: lazy butt) to participate in a little challenge ~ using little one's art in a LO. Remember J's artpiece from here? Well, I hope my LO does her piece justice.


Distressed the blue cardstock and the blue splashes of paint on the background is actually J's handprints ~ which by the way, she LOVED doing. I had to submit some kind of torture technique to the piece so I messed up the alphas with some copper ink and copper-embossed them for that kinda-rusty-kinda-dirty look.

J loves butterflies - this one got stickled a teeny bit.

More paint and a little journalling. Ce'st fini!

Sadly though, J asked if this was done for her and when I told her yes, she was disappointed. Apparently it's not "pink" enough ... exact words were "But Mummy, you know I like pink ..." yes, as in THAT shade (fuschia), oh well!



Supplies - Paper: DaisyD's, Fancy Pants, Making Memories, Bazzill Cardstock; Paint: Making Memories; Ink: Nick Bantock Reinker, Tim Holtz Distress Inkpad, Tsukineko Brilliance; Alpha: Heidi Swapp; Embellies: Making Memories, Kaiser Craft, Stickles; Pen: Pigma Micron.

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.