Scrap Around The Clock June CyberCrop ~ challenge 6

Vintage ATC is Vicki's second challenge on Scrap Around The Clock. She's asked us to use:

1. A vintage theme

2. Ink

3. A title

Mine is called "Time Travel"

Thanks for looking
Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

UKS Music ATC's

I recently took part in a music ATC swap on UKScrappers. We had to make 10 ATC's based on .... music!!!!!!!!

I chose to do mine using the song Handbags and Gladrags by Rod Stewart. To do the gladrag image, I opened the Madison Goes To The Ball image (from the Holly and Madison download collection) in Paint.net and coloured her in with a contrasting background before re-sizing and printing onto watercolour paper.

Closer look at one of them

All 10

Each one is slightly different

I hope everyone liked these. I loved receiving my envelope and each one I was given will be treasured. Thanks ladies for all your hard work.

Take care,

Love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Take 3 Cards

I made an ATC the other day and decided to turn it into a birthday card for a friend. I've made it in advance, so have covered the sentiment or it would have given the game away somewhat! I cut an arched window aperture and stuck an ATC sleeve behind it to hold the ATC.

As some of you are aware, I have a wedding to go to on Saturday. After 20 months of planning, my little sister's getting married. I made this card for her which should arrive tomorrow (Friday). I've used a pre-coloured image from the back-to-front Dottie and George collection by Lou and available only from Charmed and printed it onto watercolour paper. I cut an arched aperture so that I could back the images and it would look like she really is looking out of the window. The open frames have been backed with acetate.

This card fits with My Time To Craft's latest challenge 'WOMAN'

Inside the front

The wording inside follows on from the front and reads: to go before your prince sweeps you off your feet and you become ..... Mrs Norman

Here's their wedding card. I've once again used pre-coloured images from the back-to-front Dottie and George collection by Lou, available from Charmed and printed onto watercolour paper. I wanted the card to be fun as that's what they're all about (as well as love of course!). And yes, I am safe putting these last 2 cards on here early as she doesn't have internet access at the moment and he's staying at his brother's.

Thanks for looking

Take care,  love and hugs to your all

Sarah C xoxo

Lady In Red

I printed and watercoloured one of the Madison downloads on Friday and today decided it was too small for a card. So, what do I do with an image like that? Make it into an ATC of course! To complete the ATC, I watercoloured the background, fixed a champagne glass to some ribbon and added them to the side.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Shell's Challenge

Over on 3C's, it was Shell's turn to set the sketch challenge. LO, card and ATC using the sketch and any extras she decided to set. Here's the sketch and what she said.

Layout - For the LO, I want you all to use just 1 piece of cardstock and 2 pieces of patterned paper, nothing else, no stickers, rub ons, ribbon, flowers etc.......everything you use on the LO has to be made using the c/s or pp or both, so any flowers, lettering, fake ribbons, etc must be made from the c/s /pp.

A challenge and a half I thought, but I gave it a go and with one sheet of Bazzill, 2 sheets of Basic Grey, a black Stazon ink pad and a journalling pen, here's what I came up with:

Card- Christmas is coming so for the card I would like you to make a christmas card, you can use anything you like, the more the better, but I would like sparkle, sparkle and more sparkle, glitter, sequins, the more the better.

Here we go then. I used to hate glitter, but thanks to Stickles I'm converted and the whole tree has been coloured in using stickles and gems. Dome sticker says "We wish you a merry Christmas"

ATC - Again anything goes for this, it can be any theme you like and you can use whatever you like. But I would like to see a hidden element on the ATC, something that makes it interactive. This could be a hidden tag that needs to be taken out, a window/ door that needs to be opened etc........

I've created a pocket using acetate and hidden a stamped flower behind it.

Thanks for looking

Love and hugs

Another LO & Some Rare ATC's

I have weeks where I craft a lot and others that have hardy anything done in them. I was crafting a bit on Thursday evening and yesterday and this is what I did.

Firstly, it was my turn to set the challenge on 3C's on Wednesday. I chose a 2 part challenge and completed the first part yesterday. My challenge was:

The saying goes “March winds and April showers, bring forth May flowers”. Heading this, my first challenge is:

To do a Lay-Out using a photo of flowers or plants. Easy? Maybe a little too easy, so I challenge you NOT to use: glitter, bling, pink, photos of people or pets

I used small photos of various flowers in my garden. I stuck them onto a piece of yellow Bazzill and doodled around the edges and the top using orange and green brush markers. I also used those pens to draw wavy lines and to do the journalling. I didn't think the LO needed a title and will be used as the front page for an album about my flowers and garden.

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I used to make and swap ATC's until some people started getting very fussy and nit-picky about what they looked like. I always thought an ATC was a way to show case your work using whatever medium you liked to use ~ papers, inks, stamping, watercolouring, stitching, beading, rub-ons, peel-offs etc. How can you say that someone's ATC is not good enough or right if it's what they like to do? So, I had quite a long break from making them and decided to just 'go for it' and join in again. If the recipient doesn't think my work is good enough for them and feel they have the right to say so, so be it. If I like it, then surely that's all that matters. These little works of art aren't often made with the recipient in mind, they are made to your tastes, with your craft loves and techniques on.

Here's 3 identical gatefold ATC's I've made for an organised swap. I haven't shown the right hand side of the open ATC as that has my contact details on. To make them I inked a piece of white card using orange, yellow and green VersaColor cube inks. I then cut the ATC's out and gate folded them. Inside, I stamped an image of roses using orange, green and brown brush markers. I tried to do yellow roses, but they didn't show too well. I added written details with the brown brush marker. To make the band thing (yes I know it has a technical term, but Ive forgotten it!!) to hold it closed, I inked some more white card and cut 3 lengths of it. I wrapped them round each ATC to get the sizes correct and stuck the overlaps down to form a wrap. I punched a hole in each at the joins and used eyelets to hold blooms which I'd taken from dismantalling layered blooms (from a cheap shop).