Artist Trading Cards - Turquoise

Turquoise is the theme over at Think Monday-Think ATC this week, and that's a pretty good thing, because turquoise is my favorite color right now. And that's why I made two artist trading cards last night. I pulled out several paper choices, and couldn't make up my mind, so I just made both. And you know what? I didn't even bring out the rubber stamps!

On the left, I simply cut some elements out of one sheet of scrapbook paper, layered them onto the alphabet paper, and attached that to solid turquoise cardstock. I then punched a 1/4" hole and tied on a charm with a bit of grosgrain ribbon.

For the atc on the right, I used some petals I had cut out from a free sheet of collage elements, and some scraps of printed paper. The stem and the piece of green at the bottom are tiny scraps of fabric I had left over from a bag I made the night before (See, there's something to be said for not cleaning up after yourself right away!). Everything is decoupaged onto a piece of canvas I had painted a while back with acrylic paint.

Tonight I'll probably work on a square pincushion from a free Heather Bailey pattern download. I'll try to post photos in the next few days.

Artist Trading Card - Games

I haven't posted an artist trading card in a while, so I thought I'd play along this week at Think Monday - Think ATC, where the current challenge is games. I honestly don't know why I have pieces of a child's jigsaw puzzle in my house (since all my children are of the 4-legged, furry variety), but somehow they've made their way into my stash of stuff and are therefore fair game for artwork. For this ATC, I roughly edged one puzzle piece with a Krylon leafing pen, and glued a crossword to another piece. The background paper is "Guy's Life" from American Traditional Designs. As always, the folks participating at TMTA have produced some fabulous ATCs, so head on over there and take a look.

TMTA - Cats

Monday's prompt at Think Monday-Think ATC was cats. Above, I've used an image transfer of my cat, Daisy, that didn't quite work out for another project. I'm so glad I saved it! It has been lightly tinted with Prismacolor pencils, and surrounded with cutouts from scrapbooking paper. I've been hoarding that piece of ribbon forever, but decided that Daisy was worth using a bit of it.