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.)

Stamp It! 3 Ways Part 3

Please see this previous post for an explanation of my new project.  

Here's another card by Ambre Daigre.  (Please ignore the blue ribbon on the left side; it is from another card on the same page of the magazine.)

I'm seeing a couple of trends in my choices so far:

• I'm drawn to single layer cards
• I'm enjoying these creative uses of border stamps.  I keep buying them thinking, "Oh, how versatile!". But then they don't get used as much as I thought they would.

Here is the card I made:

Border Stamps by Autumn Leaves

Greeting by Studio G

And a few observations about my creation:

• I'm sticking with the colours used by the original creator, but after I'm finished I can envision all kinds of other choices.  This is good for me.
• Freed up from design decisions, I can concentrate on matching the greeting font style to the stamps.  This is good for me!  (Did I say this already?)
• This is fun!

Stamp It! 3 Ways Continues

Please see this previous post for an explanation of my new project.   


Next up is a masculine card by Jaclyn Miller.  Don't you love what she did with these border stamps?  

And here's my attempt:

Stamps by Fiskars

Greeting by Biblical Impressions

Coloured with Prismacolors