Artistic Envelope - Autumn

Here is a photo of the technique that I used for the background on my envelope. I used 3 shades of Adirondack Acrylic daubers - butterscotch, terracotta and copper. I decanted a little paint into 3 Ranger mini mister bottles added water and misted the envelopes with the paint.

ATC - "M" is for music

Another alphabet swap where we had to make 18 ATC's. Here I have used Adirondack acrylic daubers - copper, cranberry and raspberry, this time I swiped them across the cardstock. Once the paint has dried I overstamped the background with Brilliance black ink and the

Crafty Individuals stamp. The ATC is embellished with black velvet ribbon, a lace flower and pink diamante.

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ATC - "L" is for leaves

Happy Monday everyone, hope this week is a great one for you!

Here is my contribution to the alphabet swap letter L. I thoroughly enjoyed making this one. I am really having fun "playing" with my Adirondack acrylic daubers that Amanda introduced us to at World Card Making Day. I am already thinking about the next exciting 2010 WCMD as the last one was fabulous!

I used lettuce and copper daubers on cream cardstock to create the background and overstamped it with 2 PSX leaf stamps in Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate and Coffee Bean inks. I tore the page of an old book and glued it to the ATC with an old South African postage stamp which was cancelled with a post office stamp from Dark Room Door Venetian collection. The edge of the card was sponged with Brilliance Pearlescent chocolate and it is mounted onto brown textured card.

Artistic Envelope Challenge

This is my contribution to an Artistic Envelope challenge. 15 ladies participated and we had to decorate a C5 envelope for each one of them and one for a local magazine for possible publication. They were all posted on 15 February and everyone should have received their by now.

The images are from a Dark Room Door set of red rubber stamps called Venetian collection. I love the quality of the stamps as the images come out so incredibly clearly and are very detailed. I am able to supply you with Dark Room Door stamps if you want any. The black images are stamped in black Brilliance.

After World Card Making Day in October last year I was very taken by the Adirondack Acrylic Paint Daubers and got a whole lot for Christmas from my family. But life has been so hectic that I had not used them yet and this was a good opportunity to try them out.

I painted white card with the Lettuce dauber and over stamped it with black Brilliance and a frame stamp. I cut the frame out and mounted it over the computer printed address on the envelope. I also coloured wording by dabbing the dauber sponge onto the stamp and quickly stamping it onto the envelope. The paint dries quickly so you need to work fast when stamping with it.

Adirondack Daubers

I just love the Adirondack Acrylic Paint Daubers that Amanda demonstrated to us on WCMD. And a lot of you have been asking why I am trying to get them. After a lot of searching I have found them at Paper World in Jhbg at R33 for non-metallic colours and R47 for metallic. The one photo is of Amanda's samples on our work table and the other is of the cards that I made using this product. They make fabulous quick and easy backgrounds and their colours are beautifully vibrant. They dry incredibly quickly too. For the backgrounds there are 2 different methods, simply drag the sponge on the bottle across your card in parallel lines and the other you make little random "splotches" on your tag. They look like a mess until you overstamp them. This technique is fabulous for a 10 minute card.