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Play with some clay today!

 

I love making ATCs with cardstock backgrounds, but I'd like to expand my repoitoire of backgrounds.  What else can we make ATCs from?

 

Linda Donnelly shares this fabulous technique, using clay!

This is my best and most unusual aceo mixed collage card. I made the card itself from DAS an air hardening modelling clay in white. I rolled it out in the correct aceo card shape 3.5" x 2.5". Then I added a 3D circular mount for the picture of the renaissance woman. I let the card air dry for 2 days. Then I painted the background with a mixture of different Ranger Adirondak paints in greens and golds. The indented sides were painted with green paint. Then I glued a utee encased image of a beautiful woman to the circular mount and added an epoxy word "Beauty " to the side. There is an epoxy faded pink rose in the upper left side. Finally, I sprayed the entire card with a high gloss spray and let it dry. It dried with one side slightly tilted up which adds to its artist flair.

Nothing to blow your nose at!

I've heard that there is way to use bandanas to create cool art tags.  Can you tell me how?

Riley K provides these tips for us:

This is called the Bandana or Staz-On technique. Make sure you use very bright colors in the background for this technique. The first thing you want to do is to color the background using very bright colors. I have used staz-on colors, adirondack dye pads, and alcohol inks for my backgrounds. After you get the colors the way you like them, start stamping images on the colored background. After everything is dried, start highlighting different areas with a white gel pen. Try to draw the white lines next to the black lines as this will help the image pop. I used the Inkssentials and Sharpie pens but there are others out there.

As you can see, finely detailed stamps may not work so well with this technique but you can always add your own doodles on the stamped background. Have fun. Thanks.

Rock and Roll!

I've heard you can use a brayer to create different textured backgrounds for your artwork.  How do you do this?

Bernice Wagnitz shares the following:

 Wrap your brayer with texture! Cover rollers with double sided tape, adhere lace, bubble wrap, etc., roll into ink or paint, and roll it over your fabric! Carve any design on Replacement Rollers and create a variety of textured rollers. Available in small, medium and large sizes.