Fold-out ATC Class

Next up in my atc technique book series is Fold-out ATC's. There are several ways of making these atc's and for those of you who look for more room to add either extra images, wording or stamping to your atc's, these are for you!


"Rules"... (closed)

"Rules"...(open)

"Mavis & Sue"...(closed)

"Mavis & Sue"...(open)

"Serene"...(closed)

"Serene"...(open)

I do have more fold-out atc's but need to scan them...check back in the next post for more!

The following atc's are from the last class I did on Emboss Resist.

"Be still"... (yep, same picture as above, look how versatile it is!)

"Annie Marble"...

"In the heart"...

"Ancient Tragedy"...

"Insufficient Funds"...(a personal favourite! lol)

Finally, a late webbing spray atc.

"Blood night"...(notice how well Tim's film strip works on this one. I thought it was fitting seeing how the image is from Twilight, the film - which of course you'd know unless you've been living under a rock these last couple of years!)

I'd fallen behind a bit in making sample atc's for in my own book but have now caught up and surprise, surprise....I'm even ahead now!!! I've made 7 atc's today that have fabric transfers and beading on them. That's the next class coming up. The girls will need to bring their good glasses to be able to see the beading needle and little beads!

Emboss Resist Technique

The new class for this fortnight is Emboss Resist Technique. Another of those wonderful backgrounds that can also be used as a main focal point if your stamps can tell a story by themselves. These first atc's are like the latter, the stamps can stand alone as the main focus of the atc.

"Twilight"...

"Fear Not"... (yes, I know I've used the same stamps but I wanted to tryout some different colour combinations)

These next ones have the emboss resist as the background.

"Remember"...

"Moan-a"...

"Go confidently"...

"Canvas"...
"Women and cats"... (love this combination of Tim's new distress ink colours - Victorian Velvet & Pumice Stone - which are all available at Scraptivate now!)

I still haven't downloaded the pictures from my camera and I don't yet have any pictures of my son's wedding. Not really an issue if you're only here to look at my arty pursuits!

Webbing Spray ATC's

After a wonderful 2 days spent with Jen Crossley & Dawnie in Ballarat at yes, a previous house of "ill-repute" (pics to follow!), then 4 days at the Creative Soul Retreat at The Country Place in the Dandenong's in Victoria, then a 9 day drive from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide.....I'm home! I'm having a few modem issues so this blog post is a bit late. I have yet to upload my pics from the camera with previous mentioned massage house in Ballarat as well as pics of the retreat so these may be in the next post....possibly....don't hold me to it.

We have a bit of an exciting day happening this Saturday (10th April) and as we are so close to it, and also as none of my family actually read my blog, I can tell you it's my son's wedding! It's a big surprise, starts out as an engagement party (for only an hour), then the wedding kicks in. Hopefully to the total surprise of everyone attending!

Anyway, back to the reason for this blog post. The technique I'm currently teaching in my atc classes is webbing spray. I like to use webbing spray on all sorts of backgrounds, credit card technique, smoosh technique, resin fresco, in fact any background will benefit from a little spray with the web. If you only have one can of it in a particular colour (it comes in gold, silver, black & white), then if you're quick you can pour embossing powder over the webbing spray immediately after spraying as it stays wet long enough to grab the powder, heat it and you've changed the colour!

Some samples...

For Sale (wording up the top is fun foam stamped into with a word stamp)...

"Steel"...

"Nothing risque"...

"Poe"...

"Length of life"...

Even a simple glimmer mist background looks better with a little webbing spray. Steel and Poe above are both done on plain copy paper with Graphite glimmer mist and then black webbing spray. Length of life, For Sale and Risque are all done with gold webbing spray then coated with Antique Brown (a combo of copper and black powders) embossing powder.

Glad to be home in my own bed and after Saturday my life will settle back down again....phew!