ATCs and Postcards and a bit of rambling from yours truly

hello Readers!

Not much of anything happening in my world. I'm a bit on the downside of the weather...not feeling well these past few days. All I want to do is sleep and when I'm not asleep all I want to do is art. I guess I shouldn't complain. There are those who would kill to live my life...no work, no obligations..just sleep and do art....well, let me tell you it is not all it's cracked up to be! It would be fabulous if I felt well all the time, but I don't feel well all the time. Making art takes little out of me physically, that's part of the reason I'm so prolific at it.

There is a Collage-a-thon going on over at AFA (the link's up there on the sidebar to the upper left). I've made a few cards and traded a few.

I got a kick about mushrooms and you'll see a few of those here today.

Next post you'll see more Bottle Cap Kids as I have joined an ART DOLL SWAP and will be making new kids for that.

Guess it's on to the art:

Enjoy!

Birds on a Fence

ATC

18 March 2010

Collage--Background is green paper tape painted with glitter paint, birds are metal foil tape cut out with an exacto knife. Wire came from somewhere or another, not rightly sure just where it came from and the sticks are craft sticks (they were green when i bought them) cut to size. it's all attached to a UPS envelope backing. This one is headed to Michigan when I make it to the post office.

Cheers and Applesauce

ATC

18 March 2010

Collage--Background is done in the herringbone technique with a map from a fishing magazine. Images come from various sources including a children's reading text book, a note from an ATC trade, and junk mail. The text comes from junk mail and/or magazines. It's all attached to recycled chipboard backing from a snack cake box.

Sitting Green

ATC

19 March 2010

Collage--Various images from various sources including a children's reading text book, fishing magazine, scrap recycling magazine, gardening catalog and a medical institute newsletter. The mushroom is a pc of red velvet ribbon and white cardstock with white acrylic paint for the dots. (I just realized this picture does not have the mushroom on it!) And there's a calendar sticker that came in junk mail. It's all attached to a recycled chipboard backing from food packaging of some sort...maybe a cake mix?

Red Cat

ATC

19 March 2010

Collage-- Background and backing are two different kinds of paper and staples holding the strips to the background. I got it as an extra goodie in an ATC trade some time back. The cat is a plastic Netflix card cut free hand. He has wire whiskers that came from an old christmas ornament, googly eyes and a plastic triangel cut from a large sequin for his nose. The stone on his chest is a polished cabachon. Not sure what kind of stone it is. The quote came from a magazine interview with Cesear Milan (? The dog fella). As usual, I was impatient for the glue to dry and scanned it with white glue spots still showing. The glue has since dried clear! This guy has been traded.

Amanita muscaria CAT

ATC

19 March 2010

Collage-- Background is insides of a security envelope (from my telephone provider), and green crepe paper. The mushroom cap is red velvet, glittery Christmas bow ribbon dotted with gesso. The stem is drywall repair tape. the strip across the bottom is wallpaper with the words written in black sharpie. It is all attached to recycled chipboard from food packaging.

The Lonely Elf

ATC

19 March 2010

Collage--Background is security envelope inside (again from my telephone provider), mushroom is asian text sent to me in an ATC trade as an extra goodie colored with markers, theres a bit of palm tree bark and two different colors of yellow paint samples. The elf is hand drawn on sketch paper, colored with markers. It is all attached to recycled chipboard from packaging of some sort. The lonely elf is headed to Washington State when I get to the post office.

Red French Mushroom

ATC

19 March 2010

Collage--Background is a yellow paint sample card painted with green glitter paint and attached to recycled chipboard from a snack cake box. The mushroom is constructed from red velvet Christmas ribbon, red postage stamps from France, Spain and Britian cut into tiny triangles with an exacto knife and glued to the ribbon. The ribs of the mushroom are the white strips from the sides of the stamps. The stem is a piece of thick chipboard from a game box that I was using as a glue pot for putting on the stamp triangles. It's a rather hefty ATC, but still thin enough to fit in a 9 pocket page protector. This one is headed to London when I make it to the post office.

Walnut Mushroom

ATC

19 March 2010

Collage-- Background is security envelope insides (again from my telephone provider), magazine image and green crepe paper. The security envelope inside was dusted with pink glitter before the next layers went on. The mushroom is text from a nature encyclopedia finger painted with walnut ink. It's all attached to recycled chipboard from the back of a sketchpad.

Red French Fish

ATC

19 March 2010

Collage-- Background is a recycled UPS envelope painted with glitter paint, then dusted with gold dust (used in resin molding). The fish is a piece of chipboard covered with red velvet glittery Christmas ribbon with pieces of red French postage stamps glued on for scales and a googly eye. There is eyelash yarn and  red string from a large bag of dog food on there as well and the little silver thingies are microbeads. It is all attached to recycled chipboard from the back of a sketch pad. This one is headed to Finland when I make it to the post office.

Gold Mushroom

ATC

20 March 2010

Collage--The background is a woven rattan placemat with cork crumbles and glitter glue along the side. I made this background over two years ago and just now figured out what to do with it!  The mushroom cap is a piece of sandpaper heavily dusted with gold dust (used in resin molding), the stem is a piece of drywall repair tape (very much like canvas) dusted with gold dust and the little strings are yellow rubber strings from a toy. The whole thing is glued to a chipboard backing, probably a cake mix box. This one is headed to London with the other mushroom when I make it to the post office.

I also did a couple of postcards over the weekend.

Fish Postcard

18 March 2010

Collage--The background is part of a greeting card recieved with an ATC trade. Fish are also from a greeting card recieved with an ATC trade, freehand cut and the white is acrylic paint pen, black is sharpie pen. The star is orchard paper. The backside of this postcard is a postcard with a red shoe in the center of it surrounded by a patterned yellow border. Plenty of room for a message and an address. I found the quote at quoteland. com by entering the search term 'fish'. It is 4 x 6 1/4 inches.

Strive Postcard

20 March 2010

Collage--There's a lot of stuff on this postcard! The base is a part of a greeting card recieved with an ATC trade. The backside is security envelope insides, a yellow marbled envelope and a couple of yellow stripes that are stickers. I left the saying on the greeting card to show. It says "happy day every day". Images come from various sources including a children's reading text book, a magazine subscription envelope, my isp provider's junk mail, catalog of home gifts, coffee junk mail, eyes from a magazine, grocery reciept, book club mail, purple crown came from an ATC trade as extra goodies. The man at the bottom was on an envelope from an ATC trade...T.Beagler drew it. The letters all came from magazines. It's 4 x 6 inches.

I have two more ATCs drying right now but you aren't going to see them till next post! There will more than likely be much more art than these two ATCs and a few art dolls. I'm going to make more postcards as well.

You all go get some hugs today! I missed out on hugs cause it's kinda hard to go get any hugs when you're snuggled into the blankets all day!

Peace

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