Hot, hot hot!

Hi everyone, this month’s theme for Tracy Evans’ FB ATC swap is 

Use Hot Colours

so I decided to make a series of floral ATC’s in shades of red, orange and yellow, using a variety of both older and newer floral stamps by Tracy. I love this monthly swap as the other participants produce such fabulous little pieces of art, so it inspires me to make more than I normally would for a swap as that way I receive a great variety of other crafters’ work 😍

Allsorts is also having a special challenge this week to mark week #800 - wow that is over 15 years of weekly challenges!! They are offering some awesome prizes to mark this milestone, so that is well worth entering - congratulations ladies!

I cut six pieces of white card, each 3.25” x 2.25”, and created a vibrant inky background on each one by smooshing Paprika, Russet Orange and Sundance Elements inks then spattering with water. I stamped a focal flower onto each ATC, then stamped each flower again onto separate snippets of card and coloured the flower heads with Zig pens, adding highlights with white Posca pen. I decided to add some of Tracy’s small die cuts, and this is where I really got going with my last snippets of some very old distressed gold mirri card!

I added some random background stamping to each ATC heat embossed white, before fussy cutting the coloured flower heads and attaching along with the die cut grungy circles and pen nibs. I then added some teeny stamped hearts and the stamped sentiment before matting the finished pieces onto standard ATC size black cardstock. Finally I decorated the flower centres with Glossy Accents.

Stamps: Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE11 Background Elements, TE10 Quirky Birds (hearts); AALL & Create #533 Bring On the Sentiments; 

ATC1: Tracy Evans TE13 Delight In Nature;

ATC2-4: AALL & Create #924 Flower Trio;

ATC5-6: AALL & Create #980 Anemone;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Paprika, Russet Orange, Sundance); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Tulip Red); Versamark; WOW ultra fine white embossing powder; Kuretake Zig Clean Colour watercolour pens; Posca pen (white);

Tools: AALL & Create dies #35 Heartnook.

Here are closeups of the individual ATC’s with the challenges I would like to enter.

ATC1

Moving Along With the Times #170 - Not a Card

Outlawz (September) - Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone - TOP PICK

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2438 - Anything Goes

Triple B (September) - Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies (2nd entry)

ATC2

Allsorts #800 - Anything Goes

Beautiful Blossoms  #21 - Anything Floral Goes

Make My Monday #235 - Create Your Own Background (2nd entry)

Snippets Playground #490 - Use Snippets

We Love 2 Create #9 - Anything Mixed Media Goes - WINNER

ATC3

Classic Design Challenge #9 - Anything Goes

Creative Crafters #80 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations (September) - Anything Goes

A Gem of a Challenge #19 - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon #775 - Numbers - TOP 3

ATC4

Love to Craft #82 - Anything Goes

Path of Positivity #123 - Anything Positive Goes - TOP PICK & DT DELIGHT

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

We Love Stamping (September) - Hand Coloured Image (3rd entry)

ATC5

Ally’s Angels #86 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz #679 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Mix It Up #73 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Paper Funday #69 - Create Your Own Background (3rd entry) - TOP 5

ATC6

The Card Concept #209 - Fall Florals

Love to Scrap #169 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday #667/668 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend, whatever you’re doing. Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,