ATC mini album

Hi all. As promised in the last post, I'm going to share the mini album that I created for my latest ATCs. It has pages with plastic sleeves, so that I can easily display the ATCs just like any other photo album.

Here's what it looks like;

I used 4" X 6" plastic sleeves to protect the ATCs (act as album pages too). Minimum embellishments such as ribbons, metal clock face and alphabet stickers.

I will be teaching classes for making this mini album @ Scrappingville in March. Just hop over to their website, and there will be an update on March classes schedule very soon. (FYI, the ATC mini album classes are separate from Making ATC classes). 
Have a good weekend.


XO,
Shahrul

ATC Flutter Series

I have just created some ATCs and have displayed them at Scrappingville recently. 

I have always LOVED winged creatures, hence the name FLUTTERS. I was inspired by Scrappingville's many beautiful stamps in store. And these ATCs are the results ... If you're interested to know or learn how to make ATCs, there are ATC classes held every Saturdays & Sundays @ Scrappingville. Do check out their February class schedule here.

I also quickly made a mini album to store these ATCs, which I'll post soon. Now, I can make many more ATCs to fill this album up. What an incentive to create!. If you don't feel like embarking on a lengthy art escapades or hate to work on long-hour projects or even a layout, try ....ATCs. One ATC a day, maybe. 

For me, ATCs are like cupcakes. 
You can't never have enough of them. So, happy creating.

XO,

Shahrul

Materials used in making these ATCs are:

*Pattern papers: Prima Marketing Inc., Botanical Collection "My Darling", Tracey Whitney Designs "Altered Journal"

* Stamp: Catslife Press, Darkroom Door, Inkadinkado, Margaret Stamp Set

*Rubons: 7 Gypsies Butterflies

*Inks: Brilliance Dew Drop "Galaxy Gold"

*White Gesso: Daler-Rowney Gesso Primer

super-sized ATCs

Hi everyone. This post is actually inspired by Nida's recent blog post on ATCs. They're beautiful ATCs. I just remembered that I learnt how to make ATCs sometime before.

This is an old project of mine, when I first interested in collage. I was just learning how to make the traditional ATCs and read about the whole idea of swapping ATCs, inchies, fat books and a lot of other funky names. I always thought then, that ATC are much too small (3.5" X 5.5") to have anything on it, let alone inchies. Then I thought ... hey maybe I create a giant ATC (they're 3" x 5" in size). That way, I can have a lot more room to play with my photos and embellishments. I genuinely thought it was a good excuse for a beginner like me to feel comfortable in learning this artwork and have fun with it. 

In addition, I get to keep my giant ATCs and I don't have to swap with anyone because one; the size is WRONG, two; each one has different themes and three; who in their right mind would want to swap for gigantic ATCs, right?. So feeling safe, I went on creating 12 pieces of them over a week's time. It was good fun.

So, I'm showing you here just five of my giant ATCs.

* LOL. The girl kissed a cute boy!.

* The old car clippings are from a nice 

wrapping paper from MOOF. Love their products!

* Lovely bird, looks so dashing with its crown on!. I found him in a magazine.

Do you notice that on every ATC, I have added felt hearts at the corners? I was trying to make them looked more like playing cards and I like hearts more than jokers or spades, though.

XO,

Shahrul