Eucalyptus Tree

I took this photo some time ago at Caversham Wildlife Park Western Australia..I  printed on plain cardstock,painted over the image of the koala and then layered the gum leaves..This is for a round robin swap over at  my website http://www.born2create.ning.com/

The world is at your feet atc-one of atc

A bit hard to read the ttle but i was really happy how it came out anyway,a very me atc..The title is a rubon from paperinklings.The background is matisse gel medium and polished pigments .I then embossed with a script stamp and the edging.lightly painted the image with tim holtz distresss ink to add more depth to the dress.

Hearts atc

My latest atc is for the swap at amandas scrap swaps blog you can click on the link and it will take you there..This month I had to make 8 heart atc's..I used my lovely new stamp from inkadinkado which i heat embossed with fine black embossing powder..MY hearts are done with Matisse gel medium and luminarte polished pigment powders with a little matisse paint mixed in.I used paper shapers decorative punch  for my heart shapes.
OH I have two atc's in  Scrapbook News and review.com/ in Junes online issue which is out now if you'd like to take a look.

LUSH ATC-Black and white themed

THis is my new black and white themed atc.I  glued a larger piece of tissue paper to cardstock,so that i could crinkle it ,i them painted it black and finally sanded once dried..Very happy with my grunged background.Oh isn't Johnny Depp just Luscious,thus my title..TFL

Some more atc's

Panda WAS for my swap this month at http://www.born2create.ning.com.we/  we do a round robin swap where we make 9 no matter how many are signed up..My lovely friend Sarah does the swapping out.Now i misread that it was only black and white so i'll have to keep this little guy for another swap,maybe an animal one or something.After stamping my panda and handpainting him I stamped the background flourish using the tim holtz distress powder in milled lavender.Now I had my image already but needed to add my background so I covered the image with another stamped panda so as not to stamp over him .the background I waterwashed using a little glimmermist and water and just handpainted it on..Now this swap is still running so if you'd like to join in come sign up. Guess i'll have to make some more..Hmm what image to use now??

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this one was for a one of swap i do with my friend Sarah.The background swirls were again with the Tim holtz distress powdermilled lavender,sprayed with juneberry wine glimmermist and crafty notions antique gold .I then heat embossed the side flourish using Allisons designs Gold leaf which i avbsolutely adore this embossing powder.the wings this time I heat embossedAntiquities frosted crystalfrom ranger which gave the lovely gloss effect.

This was for my swap last month at born2create.The theme was acetate which I added acetate wings.Thanks Vicki for running this swap for me

Treefrogs

Don't you just love these little guys..This was for a swap over at http://amandasscrapswaps.blogspot.com/ I had to make eight..Now I started with an image I found on flickr printed up 18 images..For half of them I water washed the background as I thought it was appropriate for the image..Then on the other 9 I painted the frogs,added to a thicker card,cut them out and glued to my background..embossed the edges with Tim holtz distress powder -black soot.quite happy with the overall look.

UNIQUE ATC

Sorry it's been a little while since I've updated my blog. I've been a little unwell .I've used the paper tole technique with this latest atc-UNIQUE.It's for a challenge over at born 2create.The theme was flowers..I found the image on the net,printed it 5 times and cut my different petal layers then idividually glued them..I then painted with dimensional magic and used tim holtz antique linen ink to colour the edges and applied an ink and water wash to the background.Thanks for stopping by!