The Stampman ATC Swap Blog - OPEN!

And the theme is WINGS!

The Stampman have launched a brand new ATC swap blog you'll find HERE

You can post your entries on the blog and then send them in to physically swap them with other players - how fab! The details of how to enter can be found on the blog so pop over for a looksie! You never know you might even get one of the DT cards back from your swap! I'd like them all but cannae have em!

For this swap I have made a landscape gatefold ATC. I love portrait gatefolds so this is a first for me! I've stamped onto Claudine Hellmuth sticky back canvas and coloured the ATC using starburst stains. I coloured the centre of the heart with rambling rose pink starburst stains then used a paintbrush and bleach to remove colour leaving just a band over on the right. The front and inside panels are also starburst stains and I used a cuttlebug folder (divine swirls) and the tiniest labels 4 nestabilities for the little button on the front.

The stamps are all from the Aspects of Design Artistic Elements sheet.

All materials are available at The Stampman.

I'd lke to enter this into...

Gingersnap Creations (Chestnut theme) - Wings (3rd entry, everything I make seems to have wings lol!)

The Glitterbabes Challenge - Sparkly! Starburst Stains are very sparkly :D

Jill said "Hey Vix, how'd you fancy...."

Jill from The Stampman likes to challenge her brood from time to time and this time as I was helping pack up following Port Sunny Jill says, "Hey Vix, how'd you fancy having a play with this?" and hands me a packet. The packet is some 12x12 sheets of Claudine Hellmuth sticky back CANVAS. Canvas I ask you!! Jill says maybe play with your starburst stains offering some helpful advice....


Yesterday I had a bit of a rampage and tidy up and I like feeling new and fresh around the house and I took out a sheet of this sticky back canvas and thought Hmmmm, hmmmm. Had a quick flick round some challenges to inspire me and decided I wanted to use my promarkers but not only that to colour "The Eyes" in skin tones as well I'm challenging myself using something new so I think I'm pretty good at colouring The Eyes in greyscale and have never actually tried it regular colours yet. Now to do The Eyes the way I do it requires a huge amount of the blender so this was no different only normally I use whisper white cardstock which lets the colours float around a bit so I can manipulate them, on canvas it doesn't, put a promarker on and it spreads like wildfire so I just adjust the way I colour to allow for the different surface. Its quite stiff so you can punch it and shape it too so watch this space for more playing with it!

And as I was in one of "those" moods I also made the background with luna lights paints I've had forever and overstamped with one of the bubbles stamps from the same set as the eyes (Alluring Ladies by Tracey Coates available at The Stampman)
I was actually going to layer and whatnot but once I'd done the stamping on the luna lights background I thought it looked quite sweet as is :)

So the image is indeed coloured with Promarkers on canvas using the blender pen and also some help from adirondack blending solution, I've also used sakura stardust pens in black and clear and smudged them. The flower is made from leftover luna light background and moonshadow ink punched out and I've used a Martha Stewart punch on some white card sprayed with iridescent gold glimmer mist. Added some sparkly hearts and gems (the hearts are from the papermill)

So Jill did I pass the challenge (Blows raspberry!)

Entering into...

Sir Stampalot - Punch It
Mixed Media Monday - Personal symbols & myths
One Stitch at a time - Something new
Crafty Creations - Favourite Stamp