Pushing The Bounds

I like the the swaps on http://www.atcsforall.com push my boundaries. This card is for a swap JAPAN. We picked 3 numbers and got 3 words. Mine were Ninja, anime/manga and Washi

Ok - had to look up to see what an anime even was. I think this girl might be either an anime or a ninja. Just googled ninja and maybe she doesn't qualify but hey - it's art so I'm going with it! She might end up even being a practice card - they aren't due until August.

Think with washi there isn't much choice but to put a bunch of washi tapes on a card - not sure how to make that really creative.

Notes to MySelf

Positive notes to myself

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

I love using GOLDEN heavy duty paint. I got a jar of Iridescent Copper Light (Fine) when Pearl's went out of business and it makes a great border to the ATC's. It dries with some depth but doesn't crack. I was playing with that and some Speedball Ink that I got at the same sale a couple of nights ago. Didn't like the look of the dark blue speedball until I decided to throw some glitter on it and make mushrooms.

For the background I used gimmer mists Green distress spray. The bright green dots are Daler Rowney FW Pearlescent Liquid Acrylic.

I wanted the mushrooms to be wacky so I cut them out freehand and created the gills using a white sharpie marker with some gold wink of stella.

found a good way to use some alcohol ink prints and my new goldfish stamp.

This one got traded quickly.

Plain Zentangle - Teddy Bear for ATCsForAll June 2018

These were so much fun to do!

Artist Trading Cards for a swap. These are my Doris Eaton/Zigfield collection. The images are from the book Century Girl.

ATCs featuring Zigfeld Girls

I've been having fun lately creating ATCs. It's fun to work in the 2.5 x 3.5 small format.

I had a challenge for hearts and used images of Doris and Charlie Eaton from the book "Century Girl - 100 years in the life of Doris Eaton Travis. Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies" by Lauren Redniss. Everyone in the follies were beautiful people and it's so much fun to work with thier images.

 My second challenge was mermaids. I was a little hesitant because I'm not someone who draws people. I started by creating cards with just tails going into the water. Hubby wasn't a fan so I decided to see if any of the follies girls would like to be mermaids. It appears that they were very happy to serve in this capacity for me. I was able to use some really old blue foil that I've had for many years on these cards. I like the look of just some foil but not too much.

I sent an email to Tim Holtz about this book. I hope that he can obtain copyright laws to some of the images and create a new series of his paper dolls.