Pocket ATC's

I know its been awhile since I've done anything creative but I'm really trying to get back in the swing of things with all of life's little stresses lately it hasn't been easy. Since I had suggested the "pockets" theme for Altered_stArt's ATC Mingle I felt the need to get one entered into the mingle.

I was so pleased with the first one (despite not having what I wanted to make my pocket) and happy I had done something creative I actually managed to make another.

So here are my two Pocket ATC's for this weeks mingle : )

House Shaped ATC Swap

Here are my houses for the swap on Altered_stArt. Of course these are not what I had in mind but when it came time to actually work on them I ended up going in a completely different direction. Gotta love that creative process.

The Long Road Home

Thanks Gaye for hosting this one. Can't wait to see which ones I get back!

Technique Tuesday: Fun Foam ATC

I recently wrote a new Technique Tuesday for Altered_stArt, I really enjoy doing these for the group. This one uses Fun Foam which is easily available, you can even get it at most dollar stores now so you can save yourself a trip to the craft store. That's where I got these great fun foam letters that were already sticky so no glue was needed. You can cut your own shapes from the sheets of fun foam as well.

My original tutorial is posted to the group as a PDF file so I decided to do a photo sideshow for my blog which is posted below. If you click on a picture it will take you to the album where you can see the comments on how I did this technique. Enjoy!

Stamped Image Swap

Last month I hosted a stamped image swap on Altered_stArt and look at all these goodies I have to play with now.


Everyone stamped 10 sets of 4 different images so everyone got 4 from each player. Then some even stamped extras so I've got over 40 images to work with - yay!

Altered stArt Circle Mingle

My inspiration came from a package of hole reinforcements I spotted at the dollar store. I applied some ink DTP from three stamp pads and then randomly added the hole reinforcements. I then dry brushed the whole card with gesso and then removed the reinforcements to expose the colored circles.

Then I found the center piece of plastic from a roll of tape and dipped that in the gesso and stamped it onto the cardstock around the smaller circles. I loved the way it looked and as always I did not want to cover it up so it has a simple image and a small piece of puncanella. I rounded the corners and finished it off by edging it with more ink.


I may or may not add some text. So far anything I tried I did not like as it takes away from the background. I did just order some small ABC stamps the other day so I might be able to use them on this piece.