Wonderland ATC 4

Number 4 in my Wonderland artist trading card set.

• To a base of cardboard food packaging, adhere glossy DCWV ruler/measuring tape paper.
• Mute the patterned paper by adding two layers of glossy gel medium with a little white and metallic champagne acrylic paints mixed in. Brush a little silver acrylic paint around the edges as a border.
• Once the tinted gel medium dries, stamp Alice and the sentiment in black Staz-on ink, then color Alice with markers.
• The arrow is a wood piece, colored with blue marker and then muted with white acrylic paint. The non-flower embellishment is a metal piece tinted with black Adirondack alcohol ink and an adhesive crystal added to the center.
• Final steps: adhere the arrow, metal, and flower embellishments; add some pearl drops and highlight the flower stigma with a Viva pearl pen.

Entered in:
613 Avenue Create - Challenge #160 anything goes
A Bit More Time To Craft - Challenge #12 anything goes
Aud Sentiments - Challenge #147 anything goes + a sentiment 
Craft Stamper - January "Take a Stamp" challenge
Crafty Catz - Challenge #308 Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Crafty Girlz - Challenge #11 anything goes 
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - January challenge
Creative Fingers - Challenge #101 anything goes
Get Creative - Challenge #31 Fantasy, Mythological, Etc... 
Lunagirl Moonbeams & Lunagirl.com - January Babies & Children challenge 
More Mixed Media - January Blue challenge
Not Just Cards - Challenge #28
Simply Papercraft - Challenge #21 anything goes 

Impatiently Awaiting Spring

This week's sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches gave me a few firsts this week: first time I've focused on a sketch challenge, first time I have tried a CAS (Clean And Simple) challenge, and first time I have used my fancy dies to make a custom-shaped card. Hooray for stretching my skills!

 

This was a quickie card:

• Die cut card base from black cardstock using Spellbinders Labels 24.
• Stamp corner flourish stamp (from Close To My Heart "Adorning Corners" set) with Versamark ink, wet emboss with snowy, frosty, glittery embossing powder.
• Adhere glitter snowflake embellishment.
• Stamp sentiment with white pigment ink.

{Crafted while listening to "Carrie & Lowell" by Sufjan Stevens}

Entered in:
Crafting By Designs - Winter, Glitter, Sparkles Challenge
Freshly Made Sketches - Challenge #220
Moving Along With the Times - Challenge #12 Embossing (Wet or Dry)
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #114 anything goes with a twist of frosty 

Wonderland ATC 3

Number 3 in my Wonderland artist trading card set.

• Start with pale yellow ledger background paper, add strip of faded black paper with yellow polka dots to right side, and sponge card edges with black pigment ink.
• Cut black paper doily down to size, adhere to bottom edge of ATC.
• Stamp "Do bats eat cats?" quote in top left corner, and adhere two black bat die cuts around quote.
• Stamp Cheshire Cat in vintage sepia Versafine ink on ivory cardstock, fussy cut image, add pop dots to back of cat image.
• Position, but do not adhere cat image. Glue down feathers behind the cat, and glue brown twine bow below cat. Adhere cat image.
• Add three clear adhesive rhinestones to bottom right corner of ATC. Finished!

Entered in:
Craft Stamper - January "Take a Stamp" challenge
Craft Your Passion - Challenge #295 anything goes
Crafting From the Heart - Challenge #95 anything goes 
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - January anything goes
Crafty Girlz - Challenge #11 anything goes 
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - January anything goes
Create and Inspire - Challenge #37 anything goes
Creative Fingers - Challenge #100 anything goes 
Eclectic Ellapu - Dec/Jan "Cards to Die for" purple team challenge
Get Creative - Challenge #30 Something New 
Moving Along With the Times - Challenge #11 Spots & Dots 
Not Just Cards - Challenge #28 anything goes
Scrapper's Delights - Challenge #51 anything goes
Simply Papercraft - Challenge #21 anything goes 
Sisters of Craft - January anything goes

Wonderland ATC 2

Number 2 in my Wonderland artist trading card set.

• Black acrylic craft paint on food-packaging cardboard background.
• Glue patterned paper to bottom of ATC.
• Add gray acrylic craft paint "cloud" to right side of ATC and also thinly along the edges of the card.
• Stamp Bill the lizard image over gray paint cloud and paper using black Versafine ink.
• Stamp "I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much" quote in Versamark and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.
• Stencil black and glitter modeling paste dots onto left side of ATC. Allow for drying time.
• Brush glazing medium over entire ATC.

Entered in:
Anything But Cute Mixed Media - Challenge #9 "Ring out the Old, Bring in the New"
Craft Stamper - January "Take a Stamp" challenge
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - January anything goes
Creative Fingers - Challenge #100 anything goes
Get Creative - Challenge #30 Something New 
Moving Along With the Times - Challenge #11 Spots & Dots 
Not Just Cards - Challenge #28 anything goes
Sisters of Craft - January anything goes
Your Scrapbook Place - January anything goes

Wonderland ATC 1

My first ATC, and the first in a set of Wonderland artist trading cards.

• Dictionary page background, edges inked with black pigment ink. Blue and purple gelato streaks added to background
• Mad Hatter stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.
• Washi tape stamped in Versamark with Wonderland quote, then heat embossed with white embossing powder.
• Wood asterisk painted with white acrylic craft paint, then coated with glazing medium for gloss and adhered to ATC.
• White gel ink pen embellishments to Mad Hatter image and "Lateness" dictionary background.

Entered in:
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - January anything goes
Naughty or Nice - Challenge #23 Let's get silly!
Not Just Cards - Challenge #28 anything goes
Your Scrapbook Place - January anything goes

Refuge

...and on earth peace, goodwill toward mankind.

My idealistic wish for 2016 is to see people treat each other with kindness and grace, regardless of race, religion, identity, or any other manner of categorization.

Entered in:
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog - January anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - January anything goes
Eclectic Ellapu - Dec/Jan "Cards to Die for" purple team challenge
Sisters of Craft - January anything goes
Your Scrapbook Place - January anything goes