Faith

I love this stamp and have not used it for a while so I thought I would get it out to make 2 ATC's I owed. Stamped onto cream card with Versamark watermark stamp pad and the chalked over with pearlescent chalk. Set in place with cheap hair spray. I like the end result.

Slide Mailer

I made my first slide mailer this week. After a couple of troubles getting the paint even i finally managed to get a base i was happy with. Base paint is metallic acrylic paint, rain drops stamped with stazon on the front. Words stamped onto white card with brilliance pearlescent ink and daubed over the top with a lighter normal ink.

Inside words done the same way as the outside. Glass stamped with stazon and coloured on the back with sakura souffle pens. The glass was stuck down with stickles glitter glue.

Melting pot fun turned into an ATC

After a few failed attempts with the melting pot i finally got the hang of it and decided to turn my one successful Comedy/Tradgedy mask into an ATC. Background is alcohol inks, mask secured with pinflair glue gel as i find this product very strong and easy to use. The stamp is from Hero Arts and comes in a set called 'Artistic branches', stamped with stazon black.

Arte y Pico Award

I have never won an award in my life before and to receive this award is so very special to me. Thank you Joey for thinking of me.

Now I have to nominate 5 blogs who I think deserve this award too. BUT ... my winners then are requested to do the following :
1) You have to pick 5 blogs who deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material and also contributes to the blogging community no matter what language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to the blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and the link to the blog that has given her or him the award .4) Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "arte y pico" blog so everyone will know the origin of this award. (Cut and paste the info into your blog to make things easier).

My 5 winners are:
1: http://siansbitsandpieces.blogspot.com/
2: http://nicksartystuff.blogspot.com/
3: http://duckfacealtermyworld.blogspot.com/
4: http://smellihelli.blogspot.com/
5: http://www.joeysworldofstuff.blogspot.com/

WyvernSians 1 Stamp 5 ATC's Swap

For Wyvernsian's 1 stamp 5 ATC's Swap

1) I did the first in my melting pot by laying a thick piece of card in the bottom and sprinkling bronze embossing powder evenly over the top, once melted I inked up the stamp and pressed it into the enamel carefully.








2) The second i made using masking paper, which is sticky very slightly on 1 side. I stamped my image 3 times onto masking paper and carefully cut it out to be exact to the image. Stamped first into the middle of the ATC, then masked it, stamped again then masked it and repeat moving your masks around.







3) The 3rd one is very easy. Alter a domino piece with alcohol ink, stamp the image onto a matching background paper and then stamp part of the image onto the domino. Match it up and done. I prefer to use pinflair glue gel for this as it doesn't smell and is very strong.








4) The 4th one is a bit more difficult. Alcohol inked background, stamped on the background the image in white and then again in black but slightly offset to make a shadowed effect.








5) The 5th is my favourite. Background hand made with ink and sponges. On a piece of stampboard stamped my image and sponged the same background. With stampboard tools I scratched into the design and then coated with embossing powder to stop it for being scratched by accident.

PMC3

Went to my first PMC Class a few weeks ago and this is the end result. I added a chain to the pendant and the ring fits me perfectly, I wear them all the time!

Jacob's Ladder Book

After stumbling upon a pattern for a Jacob's ladder book I decided to take the plunge, Here is the finished result.

A few mistakes were made and i must admit I didn't think about it before I did it. I decided to make it ATC sized and found I had nothing thick enough so I glued 3 pieces of thick card together for each segment. Covered with monochrome paper from a papermania book and stamped using small square face stamp sets from crafty individuals. Hope you like it.

I have since been to the local DIY shop and had some wood cut to size and got some nails as the original instructions suggested.

Melting pot

So my birthday pressie arrived yesterday. A brand new melting pot with lots of goodies to go with it. I was up till 1am playing, pics to come soon.