Lead Me! August Pocket Pals ATC Swap

Hey Journey Friends!

I think it's now safe for me to share my contribution to the August Pocket Pals ATC swap hosted by my awesome upline Christine Pennington.  Christine has been hosting this swap for a few months now and it's soooo fun!

Here's a second look at the card I created for Christine and carefully tucked into the swap envelope. You can see more about this card by clicking on the picture (which will redirect you to the original post). :)

As I have gone back to school and am crazy busy with other stamping commitments, I'm not participating in the September swap.  I look forward to the October swap.  When I have some time to focus on that special collection, I'll start working on my October ATC's...Until then, I've got a few "singles" that I will be making and posting along the way...The non-traditional kind, OK?!

See you soon!

35 ATC's down...

Hello there Journey Friends!

Convention is just a few days away and I'm busy stamping and creating my projects/swaps/trades...After three days of work, I finally finished my ATC's.  I think they turned out the way my muse wanted them to.  :)

Lots of collage work to create this project.  I started out squirting some Beach Breeze reinker on an acrylic block.  I let it drip a bit then applied the inked block directly to the watercolor paper.  After that, I added the "fishy net" background image with LemonGrass ink then applied the American Sun stamp in the corner with Lemon Drop ink.  I think that created some great sun rays!  The final few steps before mounting on cardstock included adding Silver Silk and a stitched line to carry my "tags" along on their journey with the bottle...

...Oh that bottle...I stamped some Shrink Film with my Black Licorice ink then heated it to set it and shrink the film.  I applied some Sparkle dust to the underside of each bottle with Journey Glaze.

 The tags were stamped with tiny sentiments from the Bezel Block ATS set.  I just LOVE that set because of it's versatility and tiny size...Perfect for little cards!

I used one of the smallest circle dies/punched circle dies to create the sun.  When that was complete, I mounted all the pieces onto black licorice cardstock then onto Beach Breeze cardstock.  FINISHED! Now on to project 2!