Anesha's finger painting ATC's for March

Just thought that I would show you Anesha's ''finger painting background'' Artist Trading Card swaps for the month of March

I just love these stamps from the man himself T.H. I also have them in my collection of ever growing 'rubber', just don't seem to be able to stop myself from buying a little something each month.... I am sure it's an illness once over it was shoes until I saw the light. lol

Anesha the backgrounds are even more gorgeous in real life and the colours are perfect together.. whoever receives one of these in the swap will be very lucky.... do you want to be in with a chance of owning one in your collection I know I do.

Will be back later this weekend with some fab easel ATC's to show off plus some of our stunning Masculine challenge atc's to show you too.

Hope that you have a great weekend and if you want to join in with us just drop me an email.

See post below for March ATC challenge.

Chriss x

March challenge ''finger painting backgrounds on an old book page.''

We have all at sometime or another done a bit of finger painting..... I just love getting my hands dirty with paint and so for the month of March I have chosen 'BACKGROUNDS' once again it's an open theme.

Here I took an old page from an old book I have been altering chose acrylic paints in pink, green, white and gold.
I rubbed white paint onto the page first but not covering all the words and then splodged on the other 3 colours as each colour dried so as not to end up with a pool of muddiness.



Once the page was dry I glued an Artist Trading Card blank to the page and cut round it.

All ready to create my ATC's, here I have so far completed 2 for this months challenge.

Many thanks to Chris for hosting February's challenge of 'Easel Artist Trading Cards' Once I have taken photos of the swaps I will upload them for you to see Thankyou for joining in.

From April it has been decided to add Mr Linky to the monthly challenge post allowing you to upload your ATC swaps to your blog then we can come and visit you.

Thankyou and welcome to our new people who have taken part in Chris' challenge also welcome to our new followers.

We have had alot of enquiries as to how swappers outside of the UK can cover the cost of postage for their returns and as our international swappers are growing it has been made so easy rather than send dollars etc...

On posting out your Artist Trading Card swaps you just pay the postage into my Paypal account please email me for more information....It's so simple to do It's already up and running thanks to those who have deposited your postage to cover the cost... I don't know why I didnt think of it before.

Thanks to Chris for pointing me in that direction. xxx

There will be a few changes to get the ATC swaps running as smooth as possible getting them out to you faster than they have in the past...thanks for hanging in there.

Hope that you all have a great month and look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Doodle Artist Trading Cards Showcase

Happy Sunday everyone.

I know these Artist Trading Cards's have been a long time coming sorry for the delay.

I took photo's of the Doodle ATC challenge entries as my Scanner was what you might call kaput
at the time.

I am also croping and putting your names on from memory and so if I get them wrong please do let me know and I will change them.


Things are slowly getting back on track here and I hope to catch up with visiting you and catchig up with blogging your Artist Trading Cards .

SEE THIS MONTH FAB ATC CHALLENGE ON THE POST BELOW SET BY MARGARET

Have a good day with your Artist Trading Cards

MORE BLOG CANDY AND CCC GIVE AWAY

The very last of our Zettie ATC's...see post below for Fay's grab bag blog candy

Hey look what turned up Missy K your lost ATC... think he had been in another file with Mona up to no good... lol

Below 3 of Penny Bearcroft 1st timer and my laptop has eaten one of yours sorry :)

Thanks Penny x

Below Sheila K's

Thanks She x

3 of Jenny's lost 1 in the files somewhere... think I have a hungry atc-apillar in my laptop. lol.

Thanks Jenny x

Below are 3 of Vonny's ... can only find 3 in the file...sorry.

Thanks Vonny x

If you would like to be in with a chance of winning this fab blog candy below from Karen at CCC

Then pop over H E R E
GOOD LUCK.

REMEMEBER OUR 3 FREE GOODY BAGS UP FOR GRABS ON THE POST BELOW YOU GOTTA BE IN IT TO WIN IT.:)

Sue, Lyn and Martina Zettieology swaps

Almost at the end of our Zetti swaps.... I think just 2 more sets to show after the 3 sets below.

1 to 4 are Sue R

Thanks Sue x

Fairy land park Lyns

Thanks Lyn x

4 above from Martina.... thank you Martina x

I am trying to get round everyone's blog and I am half way down our long list of wondeful ATC'ers and will hope to get to you all soon :)

Thank you to everyone for joining in the swaps because without you this blog would not be as it is.

SEE POST 1st MAY FOR THIS MONTHS ATC CHALLENGE WITH GABY X

Our May ATC Challenge from Gaby xx

The 1st of May and another challenge has been set for us by our lovely guest designer, self taught multi-media artist Gaby.... this lady is soooo talented please be sure to check out her blog over H E R E



Scroll down her pages and see some of her AMAZING artist trading cards... OH, those rust miniature ATC works of ART are to die for.


Now then anyone who knows me will know I LOVE backgrounds and Gaby has set us a background challenge for this months theme, I myself have never tried it and so out of my comfort zone once again, lol :))


Over to Gaby....

For those of you who don’t know me yet, I’m Gaby from Germany.

I am a self-taught mixed media artist. I have a lot of interests, with a focus on collage.

This form allows me to use so many different methods and materials. My art is spontaneous.

I like the creative process, layering of many different materials including paint, ink, paper, photographs and found elements.

I love all kinds of art, but my special love is the ATCs. I’m always interested in new techniques and challenges, so my art can continue to evolve… only my everyday "job" sets the limits...

It’s a real honor to be invited as May’s guest designer. Thank you Chriss!

My theme for this month is “The Peeling Paint Technique” that Claudine Hellmuth popularized in her College Discovery Workshop book.

I really love this peeled paint effect and I use it often for the backgrounds.

A short explanation for those who don’t know this technique:

First Step, apply a base coat of paint on your card stock.

Wait for paint to dry fully.

Than apply petroleum jelly intermittently over surface areas, covering areas that you want to expose when the paint peels during a later step.

Apply the petroleum jelly thickly enough to cover the surface that you want to peel. You can use your fingers or a paintbrush.

Paint over the entire surface using a different color of paint. . Allow the paint to dry.

Apply a second coat if desired.

Remove the petroleum jelly, using a soft cloth or paper towel.

The second colour of paint peels off at the same time.

Clean the surface to remove lingering traces of petroleum jelly.

If you like, seal your surface with an acrylic medium such as Golden medium.

Decorate as desired.

You can apply the petroleum jelly over a collage or piece of art work, and then paint over top.

However, you must seal the collage surface first with a coat of acrylic medium. Otherwise, the jelly soaks through your paper.

Have fun!

Have a good one, Gaby

Thank you Gaby it is an honour that you have agreed to be our GD for May 2010.

Thanks Gaby for the tute I can see the sales of Vaseline going up this month...lol.

Time for a huge thank you to Patty for doing us the honour of being our guest designer for us last month, Patty you did us proud, your ATC's arrived and IRL they are even more wonderful xxx

I am thrilled to say that Patty is now one of our newbie club members so we will be seeing more of her work. :)

Welcome to our new followers and thank you for the millions at least it feels like millions of enquiries from new readers about our club, I have been kept very busy this month behind the scenes.

All Swaps have now gone out... I held back on the international ones due to the Iceland troubles so you should get them soon.

We have a lovely sponsor for this month, Fay who runs an Ebay shop selling blank ATC's, inchies, twinchies, rinchies and much more however she is away on business at the moment and has closed her shop until the 9th May.

We will be putting her delightful blog candy grab bag of goodies up then so do pop back on the 9th.

When you have created your ATC's please put them on your blog and leave a comment on this post so that we can come and visit you I do hope that I didnt leave anyone out last month.

Thank you to all who pop over to visit each others blog when they have posted their ATC's.

Wishing you all a brilliant Bank Holiday weekend.

Thanks for joining us.

Blog Candy Winners

No Marley today, football calls and so we have RANDOM GENERATOR to do the honours.

Good Luck everyone.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

12....... The stamps

7..........an ATC from me

4 .........an ATC from me

Timestamp: 2010-04-24 07:48:49 UTC

Even I do not know at this point who has won.

I am off for a look now.

Have a great weekend

BLOG CANDY GIVE AWAY

We are so lucky to have some more BLOG CANDY stamps from Xelacrafts

and to be in with a chance of winning them both all you have to do is leave a comment on this post...what could be simpler?

And 2 runners up will receive an ATC from me... lol

More Zetties below

These 4 ATC's are those of Karen G from Dublin her first time with us she joined us for the Zettie swap :)

Thanks Karen x

The names for the blog candy will be drawn on Friday at 12 noon.