BF February ATCs

The topic for this month's BF forum ATC swap is 'stamping'. I love stamping and had a hard job choosing what to do.

Last night I had a play with one of the Tim Holtz eclectic collection: 'fairy garden, experimenting with inking up with various distress inks.

This morning I spritzed two A4 pieces of white card with a mixture of perfect pearls, water and a couple of drops of broken china distress re-inker. These then had to be dried with a heat gun.

I then inked up the stamp with shabby shutters, aged mahogany and a touch of spiced marmalade on the butterfly and stamped lots of them - I did more than the nine that was needed for the swap because I wasn't sure how the end results would be.

I then distressed the edges firstly with stormy sky DI and then very gently with aged mahogany (to hide where the stamp hadn't quite gone far enough to the edges).

I'm pleased with the results - I ended up with 14 ATCs, so I'll be able to use the spare ones on cards.

While making these this morning I had QVC on in the background, with Tim Holtz demonstrating. When I'd finished these they showed the eclectic set of stamps and things that had been made with this particular stamp.

It's difficult to get good photos because of the subtle sheen of the spray, but you can get some idea:


On this close up on an individual ATC, the spray looks more exaggerated than it really is:

I'm linking this for these challenges:

Little red wagon 68: use your mist
Moxie stamp it technique week: stamping with shimmer sprays
Delicious doodles 13: shimmer
There she goes 95: stamp simply - only lined art
Let's craft and create 13: anything but a card
Stamp insanity 47: the ABCs of an ABC - anything but a card
C.R.A.F..T. 90: not a card
Sunday stamper 142: route 66 - numbers
Creative inspirations 53: distress
Anything goes: distressing
Rubber cafe 5: no patterned paper
Frosted designs fabulous Friday: no patterned paper
City crafter 45: nothing to it - simple one dimensional
Crafts and me: time to spread your wings
Just for fun week 3: on the wings of a bug
4 crafty chicks 25: butterfly
Oldie but a goodie 13: spring is in the air - the Tim Holtz stamp is quite an oldie, but I still love it
ColourQ 73: I used the colours given (there is still a little white left in the middle of the backgrounds):

I am celebrating with some candy - you can read about it and sign up here