More medication card

Yet another in my series of cards using the faux mother of pearl technique and a playing card by Anne Taintor. This color background is the new Ranger Distress Ink color Stormy Sky. I added a stamp by 100 Proof Press (am I nervous?) and a collage element by Crafty Secrets. A die cut with my Silhouette finishes the card.

Until my next post,
Diane

What I "really" want to do card

Here's another card using the faux mother of pearl technique with an Anne Taintor playing card. This time I used the new Ranger Distress Ink in Barn Door. The stamps are from 100 Proof Press and Stamp Francisco.

Until my next post,
Diane

Housework is a snap...card

Just about all of the Anne Taintor playing cards are of women but I had this one for a guy in one deck and made this card for a brother-in-law. The background is another of the Faux Mother of Pearl using the new Ranger Distress in Pumic Stone. I cut the swirl with my Silhouette SD and stamped the image with a stamp by 100 Proof Press.

Until my next post,
Diane

Just what you...card

This is yet another of the cards I recently made with the faux mother of pearl technique. This one uses the Ranger Distress Ink in Wild Honey, a playing card of Anne Taintor and a rubber stamp by 100 Proof Press.

Until my next post,
Diane

Masculine ATC

Was it Peary or Cook that was the first to the North Pole? I'm not sure. I do have Cook's book but haven't read it yet but I have read a bunch of other books on North and South Pole adventures. My real polar hero is Ernest Shackleton; he'd be on my short list if I had to pick a few folks from the past to spend an evening with.

Anyway, the theme for a recent TGIF ATC at the Altered Arts Yahoo Group was masculine. I used a stamp advertising Peary's book by Tanda and another stamp by 100 Proof press on this ATC. I added a Tim Holtz embellishment with the word Courageous.

Regardless if he was the first to get to the North Pole or not the undertaking was courageous indeed.

Until my next post,
Diane

Travel ATC

Here's another of my twisted humor ATC's. I made this one for the Altered Designs Yahoo Group with the theme of travel. I used paper from DCWV and then overlayed some printed (look carefully for the footprints) vellum to tone down the color. I used a stamp by 100 Proof Press and came up with this phrase. The "Are We There Stamp" is by Cloud 9. I attached the vellum using the corner brads.

Until my next post,
Diane

Oh Baby ATC

The theme for a recent ATC at the Altered Designs Yahoo Group was "Oh Baby". My strange sense of humor got the best of me again. I used background and border stamps by Hero Arts. The woman stamp is by 100 Proof Press. I got the picture of the baby from Tack-O-Rama. I was looking for an embellishment and came across the "Surprise!" in the exact colors I was looking for.

Until my next post,
Diane

Summer Themed ATC

The theme was "Summer" for the Stampers Corner Yahoo Group ATC Lottery. I used paper from Marcella and a stamp from 100 Proof Press. I inked it with VersaFine and embossed with ultra fine embossing powder. I got the sun image from an old book on astrology. I found the Frankfurters tags and knew I'd be able to work into a crafting project some day.

Until my next post,

Diane

Altered Designs TGIF Paris ATC - two for the price of one

I recently did two Paris ATCs so I wanted this one to be different. On top of my brown base layer I used a piece of patterned paper from the Travel stack by DCWV. I used the world clocks by 100 Proof Press and stamped with StazOn on clear vellum. The final touch was cutting out two quotes from the paper and raising them up with pop dots.

Just in case you were wondering, my internet translators say, joie de vivre means "love of life" in English and c'est la vie means " that's life. Two semesters of college French and I can't remember much except for counting from 1 to 10.



So here's the thing...I actually did the second one first, at least part of it. I painted over the paper with a thin coat of gesso. After it dried I used the same stamp but stamped directly on the paper. I used Glossy Accents to highlight the Paris time. I knew it was supposed to dry clear but for some reason I was uncomfortable with the way this was going to turn out so I made the one above. After things dried I finished it and then added the embellishments and background paper.

I think I like the one on the bottom better, what do you all think? Let me know.


Until my next post,
Diane

A Fishy Challenge

May was Sid's choice to choose a theme for our ATC swap. He chose "Fishy". I'll have to admit I almost wrote "pick another theme", but replied I was up for a challenge. Turns out it wasn't so bad after all.

The blue one was made with a small section of scrapbook paper that came in a bundle. I over stamped with a stamp bubble looking stamp from Stamp Camp in clear embossing powder. I picked the various sections and colored in with Ranger Distress Inks to try to make the bubbles pop. I layered that on top of glimmery white paper from the Paper Cut that I also colored with the distress inks. After that I looked at it and decided something was missing, so borrowing from Dr. Suess I used the title of one of his great books -- one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

The middle one was made with a stamp by Rubber Stampede that I stamped on some thick handmade mulberry paper. I colored it in with some shimmery watercolor paints by Yasutomo. After that I sprayed it with Polar Glimmer Mist and layered on a metallic paper by DCWV and added the fiber.

Two down one to go. This last one shows a bit of my weird humor. I had this stamp of the woman holding her nose and thought it would go great with a picture of a fish. Then I found this quote and it all came together. The stamp is from 100 Proof Press.

Until my next post,

Diane

Finally a bit of crafting....

Between yesterday and today I finally accomplished some creating since my operation. I patterened these after a Sheetload layout using paper from the Hanna Scrap Pad collection by K&Co. The paper is double sided so I was able to get four cards from one 12x12" piece of paper. The typewriter stamp is from 100 Proof Press and the sentiment is from my somewhat new Just Rite stamp.

Until my next post,

Diane

Postal ATC

I may have jumped the gun a bit but I was looking at Photo folders in the Altered Designs Yahoo group and noticed that there were two folders for the TGIF ATC swaps with dates in the future. I made this one for 24April and as I post this on the 9th we'll see if it ends up actually being one I send or hold onto for a later trade. I made this using Ranger Distress Inks on stamps from Inque, Impression Obsession, River City Rubber Works, Stampers Anonymous, Non Sequitur and 100 Proof Press.

Q: "Diane you sure do have stamps from a LOT of companies...just how many stamps DO you have".

A: "I'm sorry you have dialed a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. Please try your call again". One could also say that it is an UNLISTED number.

I used some extra mat board as the surface for this ATC. I also used glue stick. I had stopped using it -- probably because I was a cheap a** and bought lousy glue stick then cursed when I didn't get the results I liked. In this case I am still a cheap a** but finally some Uhu color stick. I found it at Michael's on discount. I guess they stopped carrying this size. It goes on purple but dries clear. How cool is that?

Until my next post,

Diane