My First True ATC's

 

So I have finally made my first ATC's!... and I am in love!! I love how they turned out... the colors the texture. I decided I couldn't part with them! I did make 2 more ATC's and I am trading one of them, but I will wait to post until I know my swapper got theirs. Be on the lookout for a post of them shortly! Have a great day and Happy Crafting!

Dragon Fly 52 Card Challenge

 

Hello, I was asked how I made my recent Dragonfly Heart 5,6, and 7 playing cards. I will try and share the process with you here. All of my images came from Pinterest I find a LOT on there. I just searched Vintage and looked through, saving all the pictures as I went. I started the cards off with a vintage newspaper image. I printed that off on my Ink jet printer. I then tore it up into smaller pieces and glued them to my playing card using matte mod podge. I then laid down a thin coat of gesso using my finger. Next I used my watercolor pencils (Link Here) to color the ripped edges of my paper. Spraying the playing card and dipping the pencil with water when needed. I then added more color using the Tim Holtz Distress Stains in Broken China and Picked Raspberry. I used a paint brush and tried to stay near the torn lines, again spraying as needed. I went back and forth between the stains and my black watercolor pencil. After drying using my heat gun I sponged the edges using Ranger Archival Ink in black. I just use cheap makeup sponges and cut them into smaller pieces to do my inking. I then used a mesh stamp in the black ink then dried before stamping with a script stamp in Archival Leaf Green, stamping then immediately wiping it off with a paper towel so it wasn't so dark. Next the Dragonflies again were found on Pinterest I printed them on my Ink jet printer and covered them with a layer of Tim Holtz Distress Glaze. This will keep your image from smearing when you coat it with a layer of the matte mod podge. I printed the dragonfly pictures off on a thin card stock so I reinforced the back with a small square of thicker card stock. I then used a paper distress tool on the edges to get the ripped effect. I again sponged the edges with the Black archival ink. After that was done I used a 3/4" circle punch with some green card stock to punch the circles and used a small tag punch on some random card stock I had made some time ago in the same colors I was using. I glued the tag to the circle and then to the back of the dragonfly. Using a very thin black pen, I drew sketchy lines around the circle and the tag. To finish up I used some black sewing thread and mangled it up and glued it to the back of the dragonfly piece and then to the card. The last thing I did was splatter thinned out white paint and attach the sayings which again were found on Pinterest and printed out. I hope this is helpful and makes sense on how I made them. I do want to say I do not own the images of the dragonflies, the newspaper nor the sayings. I just found them on Pinterest and are using them for personal use only. Have a great day and Happy Crafting!