ATCs giveaway, first come first served. If you would like one, please leave a comment saying which you would like, and email me your postal address and I will send it too you when I return from my short break .
These were all made from bits and pieces left over from previous projects. (Except for the beads)
Hand dyed and printed fabric before it was used to make the cover.
This started life as a piece of cotton which my friend Karen gave to me. I ‘dyed’ it using various sprays in blues and greens. The printing block was made by taking an impression from a large Indian print block with a piece of Penscore. I then stamped this with green and blue acrylic paints, which I then overprinted with white.
Front of Cover Back of Cover
To start I painted a piece of Pelmet Vilene, using the same colours as I had used on the fabric. I used the same impressed stamp in white, which dried to a subtle design. I then put this aside to use later.
Once I had cut the fabric to size, and attached some medium weight Vilene, I melted Angelina fibres to make a fairly dense fabric.This I cut into various shapes, and attached to the fabric with machine stitching. I then dug out a couple of images printed onto fabric with my printer, and again attached with machine stitching.
I coloured the ‘pearls’ with acrylic paint, and when dry stitched on.A bit of hand-stitching finished off the cover.
I made ties by using some dyed tape, and sewing a couple of lines of stitching along it.
A piece of batting and the painted pelmet Vilene were cut to size and pinned to the cover ready to sew. The ties were pinned into place, and the whole was double zig-zagged around the edges.
The inside came from photo albums, bought very cheaply a couple of years or so ago.
3 ATCs for a swap, the theme being purple.
I decided to use Tyvek paper which I’d had for ages. Firstly I painted it with a thin covering of Golden Acrylic Fluid, just enough so the white still showed a little. Whilst it was drying I made a page on the computer, using purple ink and one of the special brushes, falling ivy leaves, and once the Tyvek was dry printed it out. Not that it is very evident…..I then attacked the tyvek with the iron to distress it a little. I didn’t want it to be completely distorted as I intended to use the heat gun on it.
I took a piece of purplish coloured organza, and using a cotton thread stitched more or less straight lines in a grid pattern. I then used the heat gun, to remove some of the organza. I cut this into pieces of approx. 6cms x 8.5cms , and machine stitched them to coloured tyvek cut to a normal ATC size.
I then cut some of the remaining tyvek into small squares and oblongs, and stamped onto these using Brilliance Victorian Violet, which I then attached using a metallic purple thread.
To finish off I sewed a button to a small piece of tyvek covered with a piece of organza, which I then melted around the button. This I attached with super glue. I then used a touch of Stickles to add a little glitz.
Alphabet ATCs, and as soon as I heard that a song started running through my head. You know the one? A you’re adorable etc…….
So I am going to try and do a whole alphabet based on the song….of course , mnop I could go on all day, qrst, alphabetically speaking you’re ok,and wxyz will take a bit of sorting out!
Here are the ones I have done so far:
Great fun doing these, all made with bits and pieces from my scrap bags and boxes.
This is the cover of the first one. It was made from a piece of fabric that had been previously coloured and printed on. Some Stewart Gill texture glitter was added to give it a bit of glitz. When it was dry it was cut to size, and, using Wonder Under was attached to a suitably sized piece of bump. The fabric for the inside cover was attached in the same way, and the two pieces stitched together.A ‘spine’ was made with three lines of straight stitching, one in the middle and one each side.
