More Versamark Resist & Others...

Below are the last two atc's I made for the Versamark Resist class for Artability.   I think the girls enjoyed another great way to use the Distress Inks on gloss card by using a brayer to lay down the colour over the Versamark clear embossed stamping.  Loved some of the colour combinations they came up with for their atc's and their covers.   I find it hard to believe we're starting Book Number Eight!

"Trap"...

"Smile"...



These next two are foil tape background, then run through the Cuttlebug embossing folders.   I've gotta say, foil tape would have to be my absolute favourite product, it's so versatile and makes quick and easy backgrounds as well as being able to use the metal letter punch sets to make words.  On Fragment below, I've stuck one of my clear sticky words on a plain piece of foil tape then double mounted it on black and red card stock.  Just another way to use this magic stuff!

"Fragment"...



"Kilt"... (what can I say, lovely

kilt, lovely body)



Finally, this is from the Glue Backgrounds class I taught quite a few months ago.   It's going to be a raffle atc at the Stamp Camp I'm teaching at in Canberra this weekend (14th & 15th July '12).  I'm teaching 5 different techniques from my Technique Book over the 2 day period and the girls will be making their own mini Technique Book complete with sample atc's.  Thought I'd give away a raffle atc for each technique, same as I do for my normal atc classes.

"Haunt"...



Better get packing... lots of stuff to take to Canberra for 2 days!

Texture Paste Backgrounds

Texture Paste is another one of those products that has been around it seems like forever but it's one of those great standby's for when you're looking for that extra bit of dimension, it's just perfect! I've used texture paste before in my classes, several times in fact but each time I do I try to give it a little twist so the girls who have been doing my classes for several years will still learn something new about an old product. So we have texture paste backgrounds coming up in this fortnight's ATC Technique classes at Scraptivate. Samples below...

"Breath"...
"Dreamscape"..."Wild"...

"Bewitch"...

I'll have more of these to show after I've done this class again.

The atc below is one of the Glue Backgrounds from a couple of posts ago that I've just finished. It's going to be a raffle atc for the Paperarts Yahoo Group that I belong to. Each month we do a WTA (Winner Takes All) Raffle where we submit an atc and then a winner is drawn and everyone in the raffle sends their atc to that person. As a consolation prize as I don't like losers (who does!!!), I also send an atc to the loser too so they don't have to feel bad about not winning. Just a bit of fun and it's the only other atc's that I send out on a monthly basis. Apart from my raffle atc's for each of my classes that is, oh, and also apart from my naughty atc swap I do with Mands each month....come to think of it, I don't do too bad after all.

If you haven't noticed my new blog link up the top right for the naughty blog.....take heed of the warning, but if you're open minded, take a look!

"Fallen"...

Reflective Microscope Slides & Glue Background ATC's

Yay....I'm actually early with this post! So we'll be using microscope slides for this fortnight's ATC Technique at Scraptivate, but we won't be wrapping them in the normal way AND we'll be making them reflective with foil tape as well. It's why it's kind of hard to see the images in the samples below. Plus I have the final 7 of the Glue Background atc's (yep, loved this technique!!!). Firstly, the reflective microscope slide samples.


"Permanent"...

"Admit Nothing"...
"Too many freaks"...

Now the final Glue Backgrounds. Firstly, my favourite one...

"Every second"...

and my second favourite one... (lol)

"Pointe"...

"Nymph"...
"Failure"...

"Love without passion"...

"Mortal Destiny"...

"Damaged"...

There will be more of the microscope slide ones after my classes as I demo the technique for the girls so I always end up with more. Just need to finish them off after the class is done! The images from these first 3 are from the Itkupilli blog. She has great images! This is the Itkupilli etsy store where I buy them from. I'll have another good link for more collage sheets in the next post.

Glue Backgrounds & more Corrugated Card

Glue Backgrounds is this fortnight's technique. What a great way to add texture and of course if you paint it after with Golden Paints, the colours are fantastic!!! I've only got two samples to show to start with as I left another 2 at work and haven't scanned them. That will come in the next week or so. Something a bit different with these two, I normally mount my small images onto chipboard for extra height to the cards but I didn't want to take away from the texture of the background so I cut a window and the image is underneath. Nice for a change!



"Sooner or later"...

"Ballet dancers"...

Below are the last few of the Corrugated Card atc's from the last class.

"Observe"... (love the look of the little microbeads in the valleys on the corrugated card!)

"Balance"..."Automaton"...

"Repose"...

That's it until I get some more done. I know the classroom is going to be HOT, HOT, HOT tomorrow with all the heat guns going while we cook the glue! ;-)