New Life

Hello crafters, today I would like to show you my latest homework for the Snippets Playground challenge. I find a great way to use up snippets is to make ATC’s, and my stock is currently very low as I haven’t made many recently so am not in a very good position to trade .. so I thought I’d make a start in replenishing my stock by making a couple of spring ATC’s. 

For this pair of ATC’s I took a medium sized snippet and roughly brayered two colours of Distress Oxide ink onto it, then spattered with water. When dry I cut it into two pieces each 3.25” x 2.25”, then stamped the flowers, hare and background wording using Versafine Clair. I stamped the flowers in green, and then coloured over the flower heads with white Posca pen to look like snowdrops … a technique I have seen several people use with this particular stamp on FB. To be honest I wasn’t very happy with the result as the flowers weren’t initially very white when I used my size 1M pen and the texture was not at all smooth .. I tried again with my 5M pen which was much whiter but not really fine enough for the job. Eventually I coloured over with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen which smoothed things out  - a bit!!. At that point I decided to leave well alone, but I recognize I need to experiment and practice this quite a bit more! I stamped my sentiment onto separate tiny snippets of stamping card, cut out and attached.  Finally I rooted through my stash until I found an appropriate colour snippet for matting, which explains why I didn’t photograph my snippets before I started - I never know how these things will turn out until I get there! I edged my image panels with marker pen before matting onto standard ATC size card pieces.

Here is a closeup of one of them. The flower heads are actually very sparkly, but not even an angled picture seemed to capture that!

Stamps: Lavinia Fairy Bells, Flower Collection, Pipin, Spring Words; sentiment - Visible Image Sketched Tulips;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Tumbled Glass, Bundled Sage); Versafine Clair  (Nocturne, Verdant, Shady Lane, Warm Breeze); Posca pen (white); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear).

Challenges I would like to enter:

Art Impressions #345 - Bloom Where You Are Planted

Crafter’s Cafe #294 - Cute

Creative Crafters #61 - Anything Goes

Dream Valley #287 - Add Some Bling

Make My Monday #194 - All Creatures Great and Small (2nd entry)

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2306 - Anything Goes

Path of Positivity #109 - Anything Goes Positive 

Shopping Our Stash #490 - Anything Starting With Letter B

(Blue, Bunny)

Snippets Playground #447 - Use Snippets

Word Art Wednesday #583/584 - Anything Goes

That’s all for today - as always, take care and thanks so much for visiting. 

Hugs,