Vintage Glimmers

Under the Big Top ATCs

So these were a lot of fun to make.  I wanted them to look vintage because of the images I had but I also wanted them to be bright like the circus.  I shaped some thin gauge wire into shapes and covered them with layers of tissue paper and gel medium.  When they dried I painted them red and then sprayed them with layers of candy apple Glimmer Mist which made them really shimmery and vibrant.  I liked the contrast of the vivid red against the faded backgrounds.

  

Fabric Cards

I bought some new paints for an online class I'm taking and they are sooooooooo pretty and creamy and luscious!  Some of them are even glittery and irridescent so I'm thinking I need to make some more fabric paper with them.   But that means I really should use up some of the fabric paper I already made over the summer.  I did make some ATCs with them for the Collage-a-thon over at ATCs-for-All but that barely made a dent in my stash.

  

ATC Mania

It's official - I'm hooked on these little trading cards.  Since nearly all of my art supplies are packed away in the basement while we figure out just what it is we want to do about renovating the upstairs I've really got only the basics to work with.  But I'm not minding too much.  I've joined the most wonderful trading site and I'm making tons of ATCs.  Even better, I'm trading tons of ATCs! 

These cards were a trio I made from some old dress patterns.  I collaged the images onto watercolor paper along with pieces of the sewing pattern tissue.  Added some silk flowers with glazed beads in the centers and little phrases. 

           

Tuesday Again ... Already

It's a mystery to me how fast a week can go by, but here it is Tuesday again.  Making an ATC last week reminded me just how much I love these little cards.  I surfed the web a bit afterwards and found the greatest site for trading ATCs and other artful creations.   I signed myself right up and dove into a swap called Layers, Textures & Glazes.  I worked a bit on them here and there throughout the week in between birthday celebrations and weekend barbecues and finished them up this morning.  It will be so fun to see everyone else's cards for this theme.

ATC Tuesday

That's right.  I've decided that every Tuesday I will make at least one ATC.  Hopefully I'll make more than one each week.  You see I've got one of those 7 Gypsies ATC carousels that's nearly empty and taunts me every time I see it.  I want to start remedying that situation.  My mind's eye pictures it positively ready to explode with little 2.5 by 3.5 inch works of art.  I want it to be so filled with ATCs that I have to post a caution sign warning guests to, "Spin at your own risk - contents under pressure."  But in order to trade them I've got to start making them again.  So here's my first Tuesday ATC.  I used up some of the leftover stuff cluttering up my table from the past couple of days.  A bit of old sheet music, some pieces of a waxy latin dictionary page and my favorite part, a picture of my father when he was a little boy looking like the cat that swallowed the canary.  Let me know if you want to trade!