HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! And my latest ATC creation for you!

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY BEAUTIFUL Bloggers!! I hope that you all have a blessed and prosperous New Year and that all your prayers are answered! Make it a scrappy New Year and USE YOUR STASH!! That is one of my Resolutions! I love learning new techniques...and unfortunately there is always something that I need to try that technique that I don't have or must get...well this year...I vow to SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTE as much as possible and USE MY STASH! :o} Wish me luck on that! LOL Anyway...before I go to bed I thought I would post the ATCs I created for my December ATC swap at the Scrap Shack ...I think these are my best ones yet! I am super excited that they came out more or less how I envisioned them too...but WOW was it a lot of inking and work with all the little bits and pieces...I got my inspiration from one of Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas from 2008. I basically scaled it down from an 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 tag (I think that is how big his are...it is the #8 tags) to a 2.5x3.5 ATC!!! Feast your eyes!!! TFL!

Vintage "V"

Evening Friends!

Last Saturday I went to my friend Kathy's B-Day Crop. At her crop, she had a make and take challenge for us to do!


We each received a chipboard letter of our first name and we had to decorate it using distressing, ribbon or lace, embossing, flowers and a button. I did my letter "V" vintage and used some of the baby prima roses that I made on them.Oh I MADE those mini roses from a tutorial that Kathy from Paper Phenomenon did on making knockoff baby Prima roses...IT LOVE making them! I have a bunch in a jar...well so much a bunch cause I RAKed a lot of them away...but LOVE making them and they were perfect for my V..I just distressed them some more to make them more vintage. I followed all the rules except using a button. There was no button appropriate for the vintage theme I wanted to create.

I inked white strands of pearls to make them vintage and added them to my V. The tag reads forever...like V Forever or Forever V... I aged it by crumpling it in a small ball then opening it up and inking with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink...then I misted it with water from my mini mister...let it dry and then misted it again with gold Glimmer Mist. I painted the edges of the "V" with gold metallic acrylic paint by Folk Art (I believe). The paper is from K & Company (I can't remember what paper pad).

I LOVE LOVE LOVE how it turned out! It now is displayed proudly in my scrap space.

Thanks for looking!

Vintage Fashionista ATCs

Hey Bloggers and Crafters!

Sharing another of my ATC creations! I am in a swap at Urban Scrappers and the theme was "Fashionista"...so I took my ATCs one step further and created "Vintage Fashionistas"! I wanted to do this swap using the image transfer technique but that proved to be trickier than I anticipated...so I scrapped that idea for this swap...but say tuned...I am determined to get it right for my other November ATC swap over at the Scrap Shack...that theme is Black and Vintage...so stay tuned for those ATCs! I think after this last ATC swap...I am going to take a break from ATCs and work on more of my layouts and mini albums that I need to create! (We shall see! You know I LOVE me some ATCs)

On to the pictures! Enjoy and thanks for looking!