Autumn fat page

I haven't made a Fat Page for aaaages, thought I'd show you what I came up with for the September swap I'm part of- the theme is autumn.

I stamped one of my favourite Lost Coast stamps of a gorgeous tree scene onto cream card in Versamark and clear heat embossed it. Once it was dry, I blended Distress Inks in Rusty Hinge, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade and Aged Mahogany to make a sunset (or sunrise I suppose), and give it an autumnal hue.

I didn't know what to do to finish the panel off, but on Friday night I spent a lovely couple of hours with some crafting mates- Angy, Kay and Margaret and Angy had the saying stamp.....a bit of tissue paper later and the panel was done! It's mounted onto gold hologram card and brown to make it up to the requisite 4 inch square.

Here's the back.

Purple and brown ATC.

I recently discovered the Fun with ATCs blog (thanks to Susi posting a lovely comment on one of my posts). The current challenge is to make an ATC in purple and brown, and the idea must have stuck in my brain because last night I dreamt about it and woke up knowing exactly what I wanted to make.

So, here's my entry into the Purple and brown challenge, pretty much exactly as I imagined it. The background is a book page watercoloured with Dusty Concord Distress Ink, and the moon is cut out of white card sponged with a little more purple ink. The trees are a lovely Lost Coast unmounted stamp and I stamped them in Sepia Versafine.

This is the original version which came out a little bit blurry - I wasn't happy with it, so I stamped the trees again onto tissue paper, ripped a section out and now it looks much crisper.

My tip for tissue paper is to use a glue stick to adhere it to your ATC, it sticks really well and you can usually see your background through it slightly. The bits I tore off will be used on something else! The little phrase just happened to jump out at me from the book page and it seemed quite apt, so on it went! I also sponged through some sequin waste for a little extra purple, I think I'm addicted to sequin waste!!!! All in all, I'm very pleased with it.

Autumn colours

This month's Pass It Forward swap on Do Crafts had to have the word Autumn on. I made two in my crafty day with Kay yesterday, but the first one shown here is the one I'm using for the swap. The background is made with a shaving foam technique (I promise to blog on how to do it at a later date), and I thought that this one was lighter and looked like a sunset. The trees are a Lost Coast designs unmounted stamp, that I just HAD to have after trying Kay's out!!




This second one was actually my first attempt. Again, it uses a shaving foam technique background but this time I'd stamped over it with a leaf outline stamp before adding the trees. I stamped the trees first in a chocolate brown Impress ink....argh!!! Disaster, it was blurry and patchy and just awful!! I wiped most of it off with a wet wipe, but it darkened the whole piece. I restamped in Stazon but I still wasn't happy, so out came the trusty Cosmic Shimmer misters. A quick squirt of Mango Blaze and it looked all warm and glowing!!! Amazing what comes out of a mistake isn't it?

A little bit of faux stiching and a word stamped onto an offcut of cosmic shimmered card, and I'm happy with it!!

I made a couple more ATCs yesterday using shaving foam technique backgrounds.


Queenie is heat embossed round the edges with a pale shimmery golden powder that's just gorgeous. She's from a Paperartsy set with some quite rude ladies in it!!



On Creative Thoughts, I stamped the flower over the swirly background for a nice warm orangeyred effect, then restamped onto white card and cut out. Spot my favourite, some Stickles glitter glue in the centre :) This is a See D's mini stamp, great because it's unmounted with the image printed on the reverse, so you can work out where you're stamping it.

Roll on next week's crafty sesh with Kay!