Watching
someone layer up elements is always a treat. Claire has built up each
layer with care, so each one is distinct and amplifies the textural
effect. Her favourite colour pink is loud and proud going from the
purple pinks right through to the orangey hues and is definitely the
star of these beautiful ATCs.
~ Keren
Hi everyone, it's Claire Snowdon here with
you today to share a trio of ATC's I created using my favourite colour -
PINK! To be honest I was pretty surprised about the distinct lack of
love for pink during this topic......I think I'm only the second blogger
to choose it for this topic.
Creating
on multiple pieces at the same time is one of my favourite things to do
when I'm not using a journal - it leaves plenty of room for error as
you can just discard one piece if you don't like it.
So to start with I took my three ATCs and swished on Fresco Finish Chalk Paint in Blah Mange, Sorbet and Cerise to create a kind of marbled effect.
Once dry I used a Tracy Scott stencil (PS201) and Grunge Paste on each ATC to create some texture and extra interest.
Whilst my Grunge Paste
was drying I moved onto the focal elements for the ATC's. I stamped two
of the flowers from Tracy Scott set 61 (TS061) onto some PaperArtsy
Smoothy card then used watercolour pens to add colour. Then I fussy cut
the flowers into three separate elements and inked all the edges in
black.
Now that my Grunge Paste stenciling was nice and dry I went in with the Infusions to grunge them up a bit more - I used Magenta and Raspberry.
Spritzing with water, dabbing and drying until I was happy with the
effect - I really love using Grunge Paste and Infusions together as the
paste takes on some of the colour in places and then the infusions
puddle in the grooves too so every time you use them it's unique.
I decided the cards needed some black - so I went in with black ink and a crackle stamp from Tracy Scott set 52 (TS052) and added the stamping at random to each card. I also edged around each card using the same black ink too.
I also added splatter to all three cards using three colours of Fresco Finish Chalk Paint - Little Black Dress, Cloud 9 and Gold.
The
last thing to do was assemble each card - I took some black cotton
thread and added it to each card underneath the main floral image. I
attached the flowers with foam pads to give them some extra depth.
And the very final touch was adding a quote sticker to each card.
Here are some closer up photos of the finished ATCs - I really love how textural they turned out.
The black cotton thread was another textural element that created another layer of depth on the cards.
Here
are the three completed ATC's - you can see how the theme running
through each card is consistent however they are all very individual.
And some close up's of each of the flowers from Tracy's beautiful set (TS061).
And one final photo of the three ATC's together.
I
love how my ATCs turned out - the techniques I used to create them
could be used for any number of projects for example cards or journal
pages.
Creating these in my favourite colour has been so much fun - but any colours would work equally well!
Thank you for joining me today,
