"The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit,
the greater your capacity to create."
~Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Every month, our
Paper Traders group has a winner-take-all ATC lottery and this is the card I made for February's entry. I used a leftover "failed" background from my
CNY cards (it was a "fail" because the colors were too blended and brown - the ones I used for that swap were just black & red). The scanner never does very well at picking up the shimmery bits but this card has a gold sheen and some touches from my gold foil pen.
There's another great blog challenge happening over at
Paper Traders. This month it's all about Lace. I actually made this greeting card years ago but thought it was a fun twist on this theme. I laid the lace onto sticky paper and then pressed microbeads through the holes and then gently peeled the lace off, leaving the beads behind... pretty isn't it?
Cathy recently hosted a vintage Love Notes Envelope swap in our
Paper Traders group. I still need to make my covers to bind together the pages that I received... I'll try to remember to post another photo once I've got that assembled. These are the envelopes I made using vintage sheet music overlayed with pretty napkins, doilies, and vellum flourishes. I added rub-ons for some pretty touches. The notes inside said:
Love
is just a word
until someone comes along
and gives it
meaning.
c
Updated: Here's my finished book!
I recently hosted a Mardi Gras themed ATC swap in our
Paper Traders group. I made my backgrounds by using blue and purple alcohol inks on aluminum foil, then overlaying that with a piece of iridescent punchinella. They're really much more colorful and shiny than the scan shows.
