Collage background

Hello, this is Cuchy.

I made a slide-video that shows how I create a collage background for my ATCs
Hope you find it useful.

If you like my work, you're invited to my blog. Thank you.

Brayered background

Hi all, Cuchy here.
My friend Noe gave me yesterday a new brayer and I couldn't wait to start playing with it.
I made a new ATC using my fave background technique with bubble wrap.
I started with a few drops of acrylic paint in a white cardstock.

Then start to spread the paint with the brayer in different directions

Continue adding drops of paint and spreading them with the brayer until the cardstock is completely covered.

Now, the fun part.

Cover the brayer with bubble wrap (bubbles outside) and pour some paint in a palette.
I used a plastic lid and white colour.

Cover the bubbles with the paint.

And start painting over your background

The quicker you roll the brayer, the thinner will be the print.

I cut the cardstock to ATC size.

Ebellish as desired.

This is my final result. Hope you like it.
You're welcome to visit me at Hecho a mano

Clear Tape Transfer

Hi all,
You've seen some other similar tutorials about how to transfer an image using clear tape.
This is how I do it.

Materials:
Clear Tape
A page from an old book, newspaper or any photocopied image.
Water
Base cardstock . What I use here is a scrap of a "gessoed" cardstock from a previous project.


Cut and stick a piece of tape over the page. The pressure you must apply depends on the thickness of the paper.


Lift the tape up carefully.
What we want here is to stick on the tape only one layer of the page, the one with the text.


Wet the side of the paper And start rubbing until only the letters remain in the tape




The tape will already remains a bit sticky. Just enough to adhere to the cardstock.


This is my finished ATC.

You can also use this technique with images, like I did here.



Hope you like it.
I'd love to see your creations with this technique.
Thanks for stopping by. You're invited to visit me at Hecho a mano

Slide Mount - ATC

Hi all.
I'm M. Carmen, from Spain, and this is my first contribution to this fabulous blog.
Hope you like what I do.
You're invited to visit me at "Hecho a mano"

I recently bought the book "Artists' Journals and Sketchbooks", by Lynne Perrella and among so much techniques and interesting projects, she shows how to alter a slide mount in very different ways.
I incorporated mine on an ATC and I'd like to show you how I did it.
Materials:
An old slide mount, including the film
Tissue paper or napkin
Mod podge or similar
Acrylic paints
A film sized image
Mulberry paper
Tim Holtz’s word keys or any other embellishment.
A Background stamp
Embossing powders and versamark

Take the film off the slide frame
Glue the frame with a mixture of Mod Podge and gold paint.


Put a layer of a napkin over it and continue glueing and painting over. Let it dry.




Glue the image over the film strip, letting the holes uncovered.

Stamp the background over a black cardstock and emboss it with clear powders.

Using the embossing resist technique, paint over the whole card with gold acrylic paint. Before it dries, rub smoothly over it with a damp piece of paper or cloth, so the image reveals the black background.

Mount the film strip over the slide frame

Tear a piece of mulberry paper and glue it to the cardstock.

Mount the slide over the mulberry paper and embellish it with a Tim Holtz's word key

That's it! What do you think? Thank you for stopping by.