I have just joined a group who meet monthly to share ideas and scrap with. Each month we are given a theme and make a ATC to trade. Here are the ones I have made so far.
The theme was VINTAGE and as it was the first time I had done this I was not too sure what was expected so I made two cards.
The theme for this month is a CITY. I visited Chicago several years ago and loved the city. The blue colour and music represents the strong blues culture and the little stars represent the snow that was falling when I was there. The city scene is the skyline of Chicago showing the Sears tower.
It has been a while since I blogged but I have been busy with all sorts of projects. Over the weekend the weather was bad so I had an opportunity to spray and play. I was inspired by a a similar project I spied on Pinterest by Georgia Heald who is such clever artist. She does similar work to Ingrid Bolme who is another extremely talented person. I don't do too much palying around with ink spray and so on but love it when I do. You really do have to have the time to sit and play, plus you need your special box or what ever to use when spraying or you get the ink everywhere ( well I seem to anyway....LOL)
I have added texture with modelling paste through a stencil, cut up paper that looked like distressed wood and inked areas with distress ink colours Peacock Feathers, Ripe Persimmon, and Dusty Concord.
Some mesh was stuck to the page randomly. I stamped through a stencil to get the wire mesh image. The film strip was cut from a Tim Holtz die, and inked with coordinating colours. String and flowers were used from my stash and the paper chip hinge, keyhole and '&' from my stash. These were coloured using distress inks, glimmer mist and distress paints to get the right look. The little letters were adhered straight on the page or onto card. A couple of stamps were used to add the final touches.
