MINI ATC ALBUM

Artist Trading Cards (ATC's) are very popular in the stamping world and here is a little album I made to hold my special cards. I cut up a shirt size gift box to make the covers and pages. The cover and pages were decorated with stamp pads and the direct to paper method, rubber stamps and stickers. Two holes were punched on the left handside of the cover and all pages. A coated pony tail elastic was pulled through the holes and a tree twig was used to secure the pages. Fibers were tied to the twig.

The pages on the inside of the album are decorated and then a clear plastic ATC sleeve is run through a Xyron machine and adhered to the center of each page. The ATC's are then slid into the clear sleeves

Encaustic Kimono

I was playing around my my encaustic waxes today and attempted to make a kimono with the waxes. My freehand drawing with the stylus writing tip needs a lot of work. Actually, what I need is drawing lessons.

Blossom Necklace

I made this necklace for an on-line challenge. The gold flower is made from Ultra Thick Embossing Powder.

Cat Pin or Pendant

In April I attended the Heirloom Rubber Stamp Convention in Allentown, PA. I was fascinated by stamped and jeweled pins made of Outline Rubber Stamps. I bought the cat stamp and the tear drop stamp. Here is my first attempt with the cat stamp. I haven't decided if I want to make the cat a pin or a pendant.

WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THOSE SCRAPS

I save every little scrap of paper and finally I decided to use some of them. I have a lot of scraps that are strips from around a quarter inch to an inch wide. I decided to glue them on a piece of cardstock on the diagonal to make a background for an Asian card. I like the results and the fact that I used up some of my scraps.

MORE ENCAUSTIC WAX

Using my trusty wax iron and blue wax, I made this background. It looked like a seascape to me so I added some fish and a turtle (Posh Impressions stamps from Stamp A Mania) and some glitter glue bubbles (Stickles by Ranger). I had a corner punch that loosely resembled a scallop shell so I punched out the four corners and mounted the panel on a hot pink card. It makes a nice summer card.