Friends Last a Lifetime

Artist Trading Card

Clip Art by Lisa's Altered Art

Background - acrylic on a security envelope

Another Image from Lisa's Altered Art

This will go into my collection for the monthly Vintage Artist Trading Card swap I belong to:

Clip Art from Lisa's Altered Art

Background - Acrylic Paint

Vintage Collage ATC

The inspiration for this Artist Trading Card came from a browse through a great book:  Scraps: An Inspirational Field Guide to Collage.

Clip Art from Lisa's Altered Art

Background - watercolour

Playing with New Toys

I was playing recently with distress stains and a new JustRite background stamp.  This artist trading card was the result:

Stamps by JustRite, Stampendous, and Kelly Panacci

Love

Here's a little bit of love for you all - a recent journal page.

Oil Pastels

Stamps by Stampin' Up

Stamp It! 3 Ways Part 5

Please see this previous post for an explanation of the Stamp It! 3 Ways project.

 

I really like this next card, by Laura Williams.  The bird houses are stamped on different coloured papers and then cut out.

I thought I would do the same thing, but my birdhouse stamp suited some pencil crayon colouring.

Stamps by Studio G, Maryse Carrier

Sentiment by Daisy Bucket Designs

Stamp It! 3 Ways Part 4

Please see this previous post for an explanation of the Stamp It! 3 Ways project.

This delightful card by Mariana Grigsby was my next inspiration: 

I'm not a huge ribbon fan, unless it is small and flat (for mailing), so my card doesn't have one:

Stamp by Impression Obsession

Greeting by Hero Arts

I learned something about using chalk ink on clear stamps from this project:  DON'T.  At least not on solid stamps like these frames.  I don't mind that the chalk doesn't clean off, except the next layer of ink will clean it off, and then the colours become muddy.  Grrrrr.  (That's the noise I make when I'm frustrated.)