Burnt Orange

I love making ATCs. These are for a colour themed challenge - orange - definately not my favourite colour to work with! However choosing a burnt orange and toning it down further with stamping and text seems to work. All stamps used are from The Artistic Stamper. I have used a text stamp with rust ink on the coloured paper and then overstamped this with part of a flouish stamp around the edges in black. Most of the flourish stamp is used again on the bird ATC to act as a branch, again in black. The bird and the butterflies are stamped on the cards with black ink and then again on a book page. These are then cut out and paper pieced (one of my favourite techniques) over the original images. Edges are sponged with Black Soot distress ink and a few 'jewels' added to accent.
Entered for the Mixed Media Monday challenge

ATC

I have some time to blog again. This is another ATC from our swap group. The theme was texture but I couldn't do this without adding a picture focal point. This is the end result - the card has several layers to build texture. The base is painted muslin machine stitched with a zig zag to card, then a cuttlebugged layer with similar colours of acrylic paint and inks which is also machine stitiched but with a straight stitch this time. The small picture is triple embossed with UTTEE (a lovely smooth texture) and I have added some crumpled tissue to accent and give another textured layer.

Polka Dots

This little Mabel Lucie Attwell girl from The Artistic Stamper was just begging to be paper pieced.

Christmas Cards

I need more Christmas cards! This one uses stamps from The Artistic Stamper Mini Christmas plates 1 and 2.