ATC

A little ATC that I did just for fun. Background stamp is part of a Club Scrap stamp. Then I did the crackle paint on the side and ink distressed the rest. The grungeboard element is painted with Aged Mahogany Crackle pain. Image is cut from a vintage book. I just thought he was kind of funny.

Old book pages

I can't post what my main project has been this week, as it is a challenge for 2Peas Stampoberfest and want to save the surprise. Hint: it involves glass Christmas balls and alcohol inks.

So I found an old book that I bought at a yard sale and am going to use the pages for different projects. I really liked this rose. It was black and white but I chaled the rose to give it definition, then ink distressed the edges.

ATC: Background masked and ink distressed.

Second ATC is also masked and ink distressed.

ATC's

When we were visiting Dave and Lydia Jensen she showed me some of her artwork and craft projects that she's been doing lately. She has always done something, like myself, and one of her projects now is felting. She uses that a lot in her atc's, and I was fascinated that she doesn't use a drop of ink or a single stamp on them. I wish I had some pics of her work. But it inspired me to do a few myself to send her to show her how fun inking can be. The first is a ink distressed masked background with Tim Holtz products. The picture is my great grandparents, scanned and printed on cardstock, then misted with reinker and water. The same distressed background without the mask.

Stamped on canvas.

There were a couple more with some cool background techniques. At least it got me doing something somewhat productive.