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

Art and Soul Hampton 2009 ATC

Art and Soul starts tomorrow and I've got 46 ATC's ready to trade. I'm excited, I'm enrolled in SEVEN classes! I'll be tired but artfully revived after this intense event. The theme this year is Rock and Roll. I took the official logo and transformed it to a rub-on using Grafix Rub-onz. First I took an 18x24" piece of Strathmore watercolor paper and cut it into ATC size. Then I took some Daniel Smith Gold gesso and watered it down to make a wash. I wet the watercolor paper first to minimize the warping. After the wash dried (each one is unique and that's neat) I stamped the background sheet music stamp from Inka Stamps. I then took my Studio G $1 stamps and spelled out "art n soul" and "rock n roll" and intertwined them. I added the rub on and another music stamp in black by Rubber Stampede. The finishing touches are the brass embellishments by Fancifuls Inc. and the gold outline using the Deco marker. Some of the brass embellishments are almost covering (or in some cases do cover) the letter "l" in soul. I hope it doesn't deter from the overall ATC.

Until my next post,

Diane