Artist Trading Cards

On Friday I went to another workshop, Mini ATC Art Journal,  at Artist Trading Post.   Anneliese showed us how to make ATCs and we made a little book to keep them in.    We made a few of the cards in the morning and then in the afternoon inked and stamped the pages of the book.

Yesterday I made these 12 ATCs to go in my book.

Here are the covers of the book

And now all the pages ready for me to journal and to doodle to my heart's content.

Of course, there's a real possibility that it will never get any further.  The journaling is always the hard part.  However I've booked to go on a journaling workshop ~ so you never know it might get finished!

Not a tag!

This week I've tried to restore some sense of order to my days with a to-do list each day.   I gave up on the one that had 26 things on it and have tried to have a more sensible 4 or 5 things each day.  The ironing was listed on Tuesday, then Wednesday, then Thursday etc.  You get the picture.  It still isn't done, but it is on today's list as was making a tag, working on the Soul Restoration course I'm on, and do the January church accounts!   So the cover of a book didn't really feature! 

But it is what I have spent the day doing!

On 17th February I will be at Art From The Heart in Harrogate attending the 'Artful Journal' workshop being taught by Tim Holtz, and hosted by Dyan.  On the following Thursday as you know if you've been reading my blog for the past few days, I'm attending the ArtsyCrafts day being taught by Tim Holtz, Lin & Leandra.  

So I decided that I would make a grunge book to keep my 12 tags in (see posts for the past few days) and photos of the two events.   I won't be doing much more to it now until the end of the week as I thought it would be great to include any new techniques that I learn or new products that I purchase!

The cover is a sheet of grungeboard inked with Distress Ink (Faded Jeans), clear embossed and inked over with DI Brushed Corduroy.   The letters have been painted with Paint Dabbers in copper and stream and then stamped with a Paperartsy stamp.   Finally I used Sepia Accents to seal them.  The pins, tags and fragments are all from the Ideology range.

Tag 5 and some background pages

I got going early today ~ something to do with having an 8am appointment at the hairdressers - so started on my tag at 9 o'clock.   I have linked this tag to the  Studio L3 Compendium of Curiosities and will hopefully try to link it to All Things Tim Yahoo group

Here are a couple of backgrounds I've started (around midnight last night) using the ghosting technique I described before.  I used the Dylusions inks and a Crafters Workshop stencil.

I did this one with Dylusions acrylic paints and a baby wipe.   The pattern underneath is where I had wiped a stencil I was using somewhere else.   Then I used the baby wipe again to stencil the orange birds.

And here's one I made earlier.   This was a page I started when I was doing a Dina Wakley online course.  I'm planning on writing on this one and collaging some words and pictures.