art ATCs

Another book page background swap came along on ATCsFORALL. I love using text as a background, so I got to work.

Started with 140lb watercolor paper and glued text from an Italian novel to them. I've become infatuated with black stitching on everything, so I stitched up and down one side and across the top.

Then I cut crumpled circles from (Vogue!) dress pattern tissue and trimmed some flowers from a panel of lace. I layered them and stitched in a rough spiral out from the center. Glued those to the card, then cut out a bunch of little pennants from the edge of the book page, stamped 'art' on them, and stitched them along the top.

The black stitching picks up the black text and I really like the simple color scheme.

Kinda vintage, kinda shabby. I'm quite happy with them.
 

book page background swap ( and returns)

For this one, the background of the ATC had to be a book page. You could do anything else on top of it but some of the page had to be visible.

The three cards I made are all very similar - the same rubber stamps, then one with an image, one with some doodling, one with postage stamps. The title of the book, Woman Without A Past, lent itself to those rubber stamps, I thought.

The cards I received were this nice Little Women one,

this hand drawn sail boat,

and these lovely peaches on a painted and stamped Italian background. Very nice.