All rounder OLCs!

I recently fell in love with an uber-CAS card designed by Kathy K (see the second card on THIS POST) which I just had to pinch - er, I mean CASE!

With her permission I had a go . . .

I liked them so much I made 5 in total!

Everything was stamped with black archival ink. Once the circles were dry, they were coloured with numerous Distress Oxide inks and a water brush. I used three different Distress Oxide colours on each circle.

I reckon these make fab all-rounder unisex birthday cards (depending on the colours used). Very easy to batch-make as there's only a little stamping and colouring involved! Thanks Kathy!

Wishing you a wonderfully crafty week!

Artist Trading Cards - Snippets

Hi there!

Thanks for dropping by.

Up in the new and improved Snippets Playground Treehouse, I've been having inky fun making some Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) from what were originally longer strips of white card, left over from making my own base cards.

The GRAND DRAW RESULTS have been put up, and there's been a little celebratory party going on in the Treehouse over at DI'S SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND. There's new bunting in place and lots of comfy chairs, plus an extended bar and some nice new desks for homework too! Vicky H smuggled in some Sherry and leftover Christmas cake in her satchel and Carol L made some flavoured Pretzels, so we've been enjoying ourselves. The Playground swings and roundabouts and the seesaw have all had a lick of paint too!

Want to see the process? If so, read on:

First of all I cut a longer snippet of white card into 2.5" x 3.5" pieces, then sprayed each one separately with a variety of Dylusion Ink Sprays and left them to dry on newspaper.

Next a bit of splattering with my White Dylusions spray. Unfortunately, the sprayer was clogged, so what you see below are splatters done by pulling out the sprayer bit, dipping it in the white ink and flicking it at the ATCs!!!!

Another longer snippet I sprayed for future use.

Longer snippet used to stamp & colour
(see finished ATCs above)

I ended up adding some text to the eye ATC - which finished it off nicely:

I had a lovely time making these little cards over a few days.

Wishing you a wonderfully creative day.

INKY Artist Trading Cards

Hi there

I recently had loads of fun making some Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and thought I'd share them with you today. Apologies in advance to my regular ATC swap partner (Kathy K) as some of these will no doubt find their way to her. 

I started by spraying various colours of Dylusions ink sprays onto white cardstock. Once the sprayed backgrounds were dry, I added all sorts of things over the top:

• pastes, paints and inks were pushed through stencils;

• a white Posca pen was used to highlight and splatter with;

• sponge daubers added ink around edges, as well as "dabbed on" circles;

• I did a lot of stamping and heat embossing;

• dimension was added to a couple of the ATCs by stamping and heat embossing butterflies and sentiments which were fussy cut and glued on.

Come and see the results:

Click on the photo to see more detail

I hope you liked looking at this colourful collection of 2½" x 3½" mini works of art!

Thanks for dropping by.

HAPPY CRAFTING!