Atc RAKs and Postcard for a Swap

12 - 18 February is RAK week and 17 February is RAK day. I am in an ATC swap group and thought it would be a good idea if we randomly selected people in the group to send ATC RAKs too. Today I made five to send out.

I am also in a postcard swap for UKStampers FB group, so carrying on with the same theme as the RAKs, I made this quick postcard, the theme is faces. It's very plain as it has to be posted naked, ie as it is, no envie or anything!

Pocket Letter Atc Set

Chris enticed me into a swap of 9 atcs with a theme running through them all. I got to choose the theme for her, so I chose shades of pink, black and white and butterflies. Now apparently they are called pocket letters as they are meant to have an element of surprise.

So my element of surprise was on the back. These are the backs, basically another set of 9 atcs with a theme.

We are at a Powertex workshop in Nottingham today, so we are swapping them there, hope she likes them and the surprise!!!

A Couple of Quick Pages

A couple of quick journal pages as I fancied a play been as though all the food shopping was done yesterday.  This page is just literally panels of pictures because the page was mostly black around the top half because of what was on the previous page, so I needed something to cover it up. Still enjoyed putting it all together though.

And this page is made up of magazine pieces and printed pages. As you can see I attempted some lettering as I've not done any for a while.

That's Crafty have an anything goes challenge for the last one of the year, so I'm entering these pages.

Teesha Moore Style Pages

Playing with images from magazine, some stamped images and some collage sheets.

Did start off in the garden, but sun went in and wind got up and stuff started blowing around, so came back in.

Next for some borders

And alterations to the faces

Coloured the backgrounds in with portfolio pastels

More portfolio pastels for these backgrounds too

Doodling with white pen and stamping in cactus stazon 

Doodling with a black pen and hearts stamped in red stazon

Smile, on safari!! Doodled some map lines in the background

Dotty doodles in white pen

PaperArsty have a theme of paper piecing, so I'm entering my pages.

Friday 13th

I started making a tag last night for the Friday 13th, That's Crafty challenge.

So this is where I was up to last night. But when I saw it this morning I felt it needed a little something else.

I added a few white dots, outlined the hearts in black pen and the main image in smudgy black pencil and then I was happy with it.

As I threw it to the side, it landed on this open page of my journal, and I loved it on there, so it's now become a journal page!!

I used DecoArt chalky paints in black and white and pyrrole red media paint for the background and the stamping of the tag.

Left Handed Doodles

Covered the pages with various colours of paint using a baby wipe to blend them. Stamped white paint with bubble wrap. Using my left hand, black paint and a paint brush I doodled as best I could on the pages.

With my right hand I added some further doodling, some stamping in black paint and hand wrote the words.

I know you can't see them very well, but they are there, so I am entering into this weeks PA challenge with a theme of hearts.

Another Dabble

I felt the need for another play when I got home tonight, this is what I ended up with.

B&W Flip Flap Journal

I made this for a Christmas gift way back in October but absolutely loved putting it all together.

I created all the backing papers myself and printed them off.

I decided to leave a black border on all the pages. 

Panels were cut into 5.5" square and 2.5" x 5.5" pieces.

I picked out some images and built up the pages, also using magazine images.

I added tissue tape to some of the pages, used portfolio pastels, pencils and pens to shade and doodle.

I also stamped some shapes in Decoart everlasting chalky paint.

This is an aerial view with all the pages covered apart from the middle one on the back which needs to be blank as that is the one you stick onto the cover.

And I did umm and arrr but finally I added some words!!

Not to all the pages, but enough!!

And the finished piece. You can see where the cover has been added to the middle panel and you can see the two front flaps (the stripey ones at the back).

Triptych Teesha Style

I had a bit of a brain wave last night and rushed off to gesso three square coasters, I didn't get any further as Fraz wasn't happy I'd moved, so I had to retreat back to the settee so he could sit on me through the rest of the fireworks!! So this morning I painted them in dylusions paints, but it wasn't thick enough and you could still see the writing on the beer mats, so I went over them with the Dina Wakley heavy bodied paints, that sorted them out. Made the border from odd bits and bobs and then created my main image.

Stuck the middle section on first and then cut the top and bottom off the main image and lined them up on the respective mats. Outlined the image with a black fude ball pen as it works great over Dina's paints, added a few lines and doodles and filled in the backgrounds with a white sharpie pen.

Once I'd taken the previous photo above, I decided it needed more doing to it, so I added some colour to the cheeks and some freckles. Spruced up the hair a bit more, gave the shoes a colour lift and added a few dots to the borders.

Over at PaperArtsy they have a theme of triptych and Stampotique have a theme of bright colours.

Let's Dance

I wanted to experiment with my set of Lindy's today as I wanted to try them direct onto the page, ie without gesso, and was quite pleased with how they turned out. I added a bit of background stamping in purple and olive green stazon and the main Dina images are stamped in black stazon and masked off to create the line.

Shades of Green

Another journal page. I've not done anything green for a while.

PA challenge - circles

Atc's

Today I had an urge to re-visit my neglected distress inks.

I just took a few colours of distress inks, covered the atcs and flicked some water on them.

This one has a piece of embossed acetate over the top of the stamped Teesha Moore image which has been outlined with a smudgy pencil.

Again more acetate, this time attached with brads and the edges of the acetate coloured with moss pearl DecoArts dazzling metallics.

I stamped this image directly onto the atc and was going to re-stamp it and cut it out without all the fiddly hat pieces, but I quite liked how it looked so I went with it and outlined some of the image with a white posca pen.

And finally very simply just an image stamped directly onto the atc, words stamped and cut from white card.

A Couple More Art Journal Pages

For this one I created a very deep border using stamped images on paper and fabric and added 5 of the same main image and an odd one to the right.

And outlined everything with a black smudgy pencil.

Red Dylusions and then created a border using only words cut out from magazines.

Played around with some images.

Finally stuck everything down and then................

added some writing and some doodling. Whilst we were away at the James weekend we had various attempts at different styles of writing. I did the lower case non joined up for this one!