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! ;-)

Corrugated Card & Faux Leather atc's

The technique for this fortnight is corrugated card. Love how versatile and grungey this stuff is and how great it can be for masculine atc's or cards. We have it at Scraptivate in 12" x 12" sheets in both the kraft colour and white.


"Desire"... (I've used microbeads in the little channels of the corrugated card for this one)

"Smitten"... (This one has the edges and ridges embossed with silver embossing powder)

"Temptation"... (Just thought you might like to see a pic of my hubby.....lol)

"Voyeur"... (Self explanatory! Card painted with gesso, burnt umber light and silver)


The atc's below are from the last class I taught - Faux Leather.

"Vision"...

"Flagrant"... (This one is almost identical to the one from the previous post but something I did differently with this class was show the girls how to put chipboard under the tape to create the depth. In this case, the chipboard corners from Collections.)

"Disobedient"... (Another similar one to last post though with the little squares that come from the same pack of chipboard corners...waste not, want not!)

"Contracted"... (A chipboard keyhole also from Collections wonderful chipboard products.)

More samples from the Corrugated card class in the next post.

Magazine Gesso Images

Using magazine images and altering them has been around for a while. It's a technique that I've taught before in my atc classes and there's nothing that scares the girls more than knowing they have to actually "draw"!!! Not hard to do though, you can stick fairly close to the imagery and simply change the colours or you can go all out and totally alter the picture. I'm a bit of a traditionalist and don't change things up much....yep, strange I know! Anyway, here's some samples.

"Potential side effects"...

"A true story"...

"For rent"... (yep, tacky huh!)

"Relative's"...

"Clue Deficit Disorder"...

More to come.....

Intaglio Shrink Plastic

Shrink Plastic has been around for probably decades in the stamping industry. Great product and always a treat for people who haven't been exposed to it before. Of course, the worst thing that happens is it occasionally gets stuck to itself....always when you've done a great job of colouring and stamping and everything looks wonderful....'til it sticks! A light dust with talc and brush off the excess before you shrink and it shouldn't stick anymore!

For this technique I'll be teaching the Intaglio method of stamping into shrink. In other words, shrink first, stamp after. A nicely impressed piece of shrink plastic is the result. Of course because you are stamping after shrinking, the stamped piece will be the normal stamp size instead of shrunk, so take this into consideration. Some samples.

"Side Effects"...

"Bound"...
"Underwater"...

"Organically Grown"...

There will probably be more of these shrink plastic samples in my next post coming up after my other two atc classes on Tuesday and Thursday of next week.

The atc below is my final one from the previous technique, credit card backgrounds. Love the colours in this one.....first coat was Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold (Golden Paints), then Carbon Black (Jo Sonja) and finally Titanium White (Jo Sonja).

"Lustful"...

Finally, an atc from a couple of techniques ago - Hammered Chip. It's the frame that's been dusted with the Perfect Pearls and then hammered to give a textured surface.


"Delicate Creature"...

Credit Card Technique Book Cover #6

So begins another ATC Technique Book....#6 which will have a dozen different techniques in it. The cover for this one is one of my old favourites, Credit Card Technique. Wonderful way to use paint to create an awesome background. I've kept this fairly simple to showcase the technique, just a few chipboard numbers that have been painted with black and then rubbed with Treasure Gold, a little flyscreen and some washers.

"Cover"... (8" x 6" in size)

Some atc's with credit card technique as the background.

"Ransacked"...

"Male"...

"Perfect Person"...

"Portrait"...

Watercolour Stamping

The technique for this fortnight's atc class is Watercolour Stamping. I did this technique several years ago and it's always such a simple but spectacular look that I had to revisit it for the benefit of the newer girls in my classes. The better quality crayons work best - Lyra or Caran d'Ache - as they have more pigment in them and produce a more vivid coloured image. Of course, the old stand-by of Ranger Distress Inks work perfectly for this technique too!

"Stay Calm"...

"Damaged by seawater"...

"Arise"...
"Beyond the city gates"...


More samples to come!

Hammered Chip, Stringy ATC's

Hammered Chip is the current ATC Technique class I'll be teaching this fortnight. It makes the humble chipboard shape look more like hammered metal using Perfect Pearls, black paint and either a texture hammer or the end of a paintbrush.

The first couple of samples I've also shown a close-up of the chipboard pieces so you can see the texture more clearly.

"Cine-matic"...

"Disreputable"...

"Like a Star"...

"Organically Grown"...

"Peace"...

Here are some more samples from the Stringy ATC Class as well...the first one is actually an atc that's been attached to the front of a card. Just shows that you can do something else with your atc's besides just make them as atc's!

"You Own My Heart"... (card)

"Bionic Robotic"...

"Art is not a thing"...

That's it for now though I'll probably have some more Hammered Chip samples to show in the next post.