"Gothic"

is what we ask for as challenge theme at FunwithATCs this time! (Please, scroll down to the previous post if you want to know this fortnight's challenge theme over at TioT!)

As I love gothic style I curiously look forward to seeing your awesome ATCs made for this challenge!

My ATC for your inspiration from the DT features a dark, creepy scenery of a "House on the Hill"...wooaahhh....anyone seen the movie? (had my hands held before my eyes - peeking through the fingers of course - most of the time *lol...).

The background was created by using alcohol inks on some glossy card (I cut from a paper plate). I dabbed some darker tones to the card using the blending tool with the felt pads, but also added them directly to the card and let them run down to create "traces of blood and decay". After that I stamped and heat embossed the image using black embossing powder.

Some of the areas that were too dark to make the shapes of the house and the tree sufficiently visible were lighted up by removing some of the alcohol ink using cotton swabs and nail polish remover. (You have to reheat the embossed image to get the shine back after that procedure).

The words were stamped onto card, cut out, blended with adequate colours  and glued to the ATC. Done!

So get yourself into a dark and creepy, gothic mood and create! And have fun - I had a lot of it making this ATC!

Hugs,

die amelie x

Masking - "A Halloween Farewell"

"Our Creative Corner" asks for Halloween Projects done using masking technique. As I love this one very much, I had to do a last-minute Halloween-tag for that challenge.

I started up with some light grey card, which I cut to tag format. Then I stamped all the images I wanted to use in my "single-layer-collage" on Post-it-sheets and cut them out.

Here's a look at the materials I used. Stamps are from Chocolate Baroque, Darcie's, RedLead and Unity Stamps.

Then I stamped the background, using the "halloween" word stamp from Chocolate Baroque's "halloween raven" stamp set and stamping it way down, covering the spaces of the images with the cut out post-it-pieces. 

After that I gave the tag some sprays of Glimmer Myst "Marmalade" and Mr. Hueys "Passport", to add at least a bit of colour.

The hardest part was stamping the images in the right order, to get the collage-image, I had planned, having the right ones covering the other images where they are overlapping each other.



For a finish I blended the edges with "black soot" distress ink and added an orange knitted ribbon.

Hope you like this one!

Halloween ATC Brochure

I wanted to do some metal leafing again - had done it years ago, covering found objects (rhinestones and driftwood for example) thus turning them into paperweights - and ordered some of the gorgeous Mega Flakes from Indigo Blu. The "Brighton Pier" mixture has some warm colour tones like reds and orange and a small amount of contrasting blues in it too, which I really love about it.

As it is still Halloween season, I decided to go for a little booklet with three ATCs in it, that are to be torn out, as I perforated the binding edge instead of just creasing it.

For the background of the ATCs I used an Impression Obsession "cover a card" stamp with a scratched design. (Love this one so much!)

I also did some embossing with clear embossing powder (on the covers) and black "Sternenstaub" (inside the brochure), namely the border on the front cover , the pumpkin picture on the back cover and the Halloween postal stamp images on the ATCs.

Stamps used for the ATCs and the front cover picture are from Paper Artsy, Darcie's, Chocolate Baroque and the Unity Stamp Company. Distress inks used were "black soot" and "barn door" (last one to blend the distressed edges of the ATCs). The white scratches on the front cover, which first looked to plain, were stamped with white chalk ink.

I punched two holes into all of the ATC-pages and covers and used a black organza ribbon to bind the brochure. Done.

Happy Halloween!

die amelie x