Birdcage ATC's

     Hello and hope you're doing well! Before the Spring season ends, I wanted to make sure to use these Bo Bunny wooden birdcages that I found in my stash, featured on my latest set of  ATC's (Artist Trading Cards). 

     The soft colors and textures were inspired by the Lindy's Gang May Color Challenge. 

     I started with just enough recycled pieces of kraft board to make three ATC's measuring 2 1/2" X 3 1/2". After giving them a light coat of white gesso, I applied more through a couple of Tim Holtz Mini Stencils (Doodle Art 1 and Doodle Art 2). Then I added color with Lindy's Gang Sprays (Hottie Patottie Hot Pink, Sea Mint Green, and Brushed Nickel) and Magicals (Drop Dead Gorgeous Green and Oom Pah Pah Pink), followed by touches of Finnabair Metallique Wax (Old Silver). 

      The frames were cut from the Bo Bunny (Sunshine Bliss Collection), and the edges finished with Distress Ink (Black Soot). Since I popped up the center frames, I made nests for the birdcages to sit on with some small pieces of colored cheesecloth. I left it white and natural to back my cards with. 

     Each card got a different embossing powder added around the edges, to the birdcages after a coat of white gesso, and to emboss the leaves with LG (Purely White, Spring Leaf Chartreuse, Queen Sheba's Silver, and Black Forest Black) Embossing Powders. 

     The flowers were stamped with (Jet Black) Archival Ink and colored with LG Sprays (Sea Mint Green and Hottie Patottie Hot Pink) and Magical Shaker (Oom Pah Pah Pink). Then they were fussy-cut, layered, curled, and finished with a dot of (Pewter) Liquid Pearls.

     The journaling strips or titles were printed onto white cardstock using Word, smooshed with the same Lindy's colors, and finished around the edges with (Black Soot) Distress Ink. 

Thanks for looking!

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Challenges Entered:

Lindy's Gang ~ May Color Challenge

Lindy's Gang Products Used:

Sprays ~ Hottie Patottie Hot Pink, Sea Mint Green, Brushed Nickel

Magicals ~ Drop Dead Gorgeous Green and Oom Pah Pah Pink

Embossing Powders ~ Purely White, Spring Leaf Chartreuse, Queen Sheba's Silver, and Black Forest Black

Stampotique Designers Challenge ~ #348 Artist Trading Cards or Coins

More Mixed Media Challenge ~ May Anything Goes with Optional Pink

Try it on Tuesday ~ Cut it out

Stamping Sensations ~ May Say it with Flowers

Creative Artiste ~ #60 Anything Mixed Media Goes

A Vintage Journey ~ Beautiful Blooms

Moving Along With The Times ~ #118 May Flowers

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Recycle (Kraft board used for card bases)

Happy Place ATC

     The beach has always been my happy place, as shown on my latest ATC! I still have high hopes of living there one of these days, even though it's not likely. Lol! 

     I started by covering a regular playing card with white gesso. After drying, I stamped the waves with Archival Jet Black Ink, using the Bye Bye Stamp from Emerald Creek. Then I heat embossed the colors, starting on top with Aegean Sea, Dusk, and Lime Baked Velvets. The white on the waves was done with a Versamark Pen and Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder, also used over the twine. It made a pretty cool effect on one of the waves, and almost looks like a splash. A mermaid perhaps?

     The sand was stamped and embossed using Dirty Sand Baked Texture. Then I embossed the sentiment onto a piece of vellum with Onyx Frost EP, and finished it up with some shells. 

     Thanks for looking!

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Challenges Entered:

Emerald Creek Dares ~ High Hopes #ecaugust2019

Emerald Creek Products Used:

Stamp ~ Bye Bye

Baked Velvet ~ Aegean Sea, Dusk, Lime

Baked Texture ~ Dirty Sand

Embossing Powder ~ Soft Fallen Snow, Onyx Frost

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Artist Trading Cards

Let's Craft and Create ~ #150 AG + Option Entwined

Country View Challenges ~ August Textures

The Artistic Stamper ~ August Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More ~ #355 Photo

Happy Little Stampers ~ August ATC Challenge