Peeled paint backgrounds

Hi,

I am back after taking sometime out for family matters.
I have managed to create 3/5 ATC's for the May challenge over H E R E

I will complete the other 2 this week....The challenge set by Gaby a very talented mixed media artist was a peeled paint technique

My first try at it was a disaster as I left out one of the stages however my second attempt is the result on the backgrounds on these ATC's and I am thrilled with them ...thank you Gaby. x

Click on them to enlarge to see the peeled paint.

I wanted to bring a little shabbiness into them and son love the results.

The challenge ends today and a new one begins tomorrow but would just like to thank Gaby for setting this wonderful challenge and I know it took alot of us out of our comfort zone and the results are brilliant.... if you have never paid Gaby a visit ....trust me you should her work is amazing and so inspiring you can find her H E R E

The images are those of Lisa's Altered Art

Hope to get round to you all ASAP.

Also hope that everyone had a good Bank holiday.

Chriss x

FREE MARIE ANTOINETTE IMAGES

This is a free image I used on this ATC it's a swap with Carol who challenged me to a Marie ATC swap.

you can find the link to some fantastic images over H E R E

And if you should ever feel like joining in with our ATC swap club just follow the link above this post.

hope you have the sun where ever you are :)

chriss x

SCD challenge the letter H and TANDA

This week over at S C D the challenge is to create something and it can be anything at all :) lots of scope there, create something using the letter H and as you can see mine is Hosiery and I just adore the main image stamp from T A N D A.

Why not join in with them the Design Team are a great bunch.

Wishing you all a great weekend I know have a fab one as I have Chris here for lots of crafting :))

UPDATE.

After visiting Zoe's blog I see that this weeks challenge at TANDA is vivid colour and as this is one of their fab stamps I will enter it for the challenge over there why not pay them a visit.

Chriss x

Psssst, Chris' Zetti link

Just a quickie to give you a link to Chris' zetti eye candy over at her place HERE. this is one of them, I watched her create all of 5 for the challenge and more when she was at my place last week, she made it look so easy.

Be sure to also check out her journal pages on her blog, they are fantastic.

May have to get her to set us a challenge on here... OMG HUSH MY MOUTH SHE MAY READ THIS..LOL

My Zetti ATC's are on Sundays post below it's been a great challenge over on our ATC blog and the response has been unbelievable if you would like to join in you still have 'till the 31st January to get them to me....want to know more then check out HERE in the header and on the 31st December post.

lOVE

Chriss X

New ATC challenge blog

There is a NEW ATC challenge blog here in blogland you an find them over HERE.

I HAVE COPIED AND PASTED THE FOLLOWING

Welcome to Fun with ATCs. We are an ATC-Challengeblog.
Every second tuesday we will post a new Challenge.
We hope that you will enjoy our blog and that you will participate!
Please post the direct link to your ATC(s).
If you don't have a blog, that's no problem - please send us your pictures by mail or post them in our forum.

Now here is our first challenge. You have no idea how excited we are!

As you know it's Valentine's Day soon, so our first theme ist LOVE.
Because it's our first challenge we thought of something special:
You can win 3 ATCs per designteam-member - there will be 3 winners.
If you want to win our ATCs please create an ATC to our theme and link it to our posting.
The winners will be drawn in a fortnight.
Have fun!

Here is mine for the challenge a bleached ink effect.

Why not join in the fun and wish them luck.

GOOD LUCK girls.

SEE ZETTI ATC's BELOW FOR THE MY MONTHLY ATC CHALLENGE

Chriss x

NEWS UP DATE, Zettiology ATC challenge

Over at our ATC swap blog this month we have a challenge set by the talented and gorgeous Hermine, to create 5 Zettiology ATC's.

Zettiology is new to me the 1st one I created I wasn't keen on, the 2nd I quite liked the 3rd and 4th were a completely different style altogether, which I do like but will save those 4 for another time as the next 5 ATC's are the ones I am entering for the swap over HERE.

I was soo lucky to receive some wonderful NEW stamps from Crafty Individuals on Wednesday and fell in love with the BIRD stamp and just had to use it on my Zettie's

The first ATC I created using a stamp from Cherry pie over at Scrapz.

ATC's 2 3 4 5 I have incorporated CI papers and stamps although the cup and saucer and the penny farthing are not there's and I cannot remember who's they are, sorry.

The striped limbs are those of teesha moore ...love them.... love them... love them x


1 removed for publication :)

Thank you Hermine for being our Guest ATC Designer for January.

See post on the 31st December over HERE

thanks for looking.

Chriss x

UPDATE,

KAREN OF SCRAPZ IS BACK IN TOWN WHY NOT POP OVER TO HER BLOG AND SAY HI, SHE HAS SOME NEWS, HER BLOG LINK IS ON THE RIGHT.

Happy New 2010

Wishing you all a Bright and successful 2010.

Thank you to our lovely blogging friends for all of your visits and encouraging comments throughout 2009.

Sorry that we have not been around much of late however that is about to change.

Take care and Happy Creativeness.
The Papergirls. xxxxxxxx

P.S. Do you want to be in with a chance of some fab blog candy and our 1st ATC swap challenge of 2010 then click on HERE

BIG HELLO !!! you have been missed

BIG HELLO,
This is a very quick post as I just want you to know I have not left the country....once again my PC crashed on me but I was unable to get it fixed as my son was on holiday...HOW DARE HE IN MY HOUR OF NEED...LOL.
We now know the problem, a part of my Acer laptop does not like AVG so every new update was causing it to crash... don't know if anyone else has had the same probs with an Acer and AVG.
Before it crashed I managed to take on the Fiskarettes 1st ATC challenge the theme being ''Wings'' below are my 9 entries for the challenge. Hope that you like them.

All images are from 'Lisa's Altered Art' arn't they just gorgeous.

I hope to catch up with you all very soon as I have missed you and your wonderful art.

Take care. Chriss x

Happy Monday

Hello and a Happy Monday....
doesn't the week fly? before you know it we are a week closer to Christmas...oh, sorry about that...every year I say that the year went fast and I am convinced that 2009 has already gone faster than other years...Do you know it's only 5 more pay days to Christmas!!!

Over on the our ATC blog HERE we had a challenge to recycle an old Calendar here are my ATC's for the said challenge.


The backgrounds are all Cosmo Cricket's fab papers and the images are from the 2005 Ordinary Women Calendar.... I just adore those images.
...sooooo much fun.

The second picture of my mini sewing machine... (see post below) Hope to get it finished to post the completed project for Wednesday...why not pop back then and see another of my bracelets too.
Have a great week

Love Chriss x

ATC's using Cosmo Cricket Papers

Hi, today I am sharing with you 3 of the ATC's I have completed for the 'Friendship' challenge on the ATC blog over HERE.

All 3 of the gorgeous backgrounds were put together using Cosmo Cricket papers...you know how much I love their papers...lol.

Good to see Chris is back in blogland... she has created some brill projects why not click on Chrissy on the right and see what she has been up to.

Catch you again later today with my Tag your it challenge and The artygirlz challenge.... having a bit of bother getting them cropped.

love Chriss x

artygirls blue and yellow

Hello once again for the Arty girlz challenge the theme being Blue and Yellow for this week..now I may have told you at some point that that colour combo is not one I would use I am a real Autumn girl...however I did play with inking backgrounds last week and the above is one of them...so on seeing the challenge this morning I came up with this ATC.

The image and words are both from 'Lisa's Altered Art' sheets... the background branch used to give more depth to the sky is one I purchased from Karen at Scrapz over HERE.... It is from 'The Cherry Pie' collection.

This fabulous 'Birds of a Feather' ATC is from Denises in Dubai her take on Blue and Yellow colour combo.

for the Arty Girlz...Thanks Denise.

If you fancy having a go at this challenge click on HERE for more information.

Thanks for looking

ROFPMSL..LOL... you have not gone crazy...I posted the top Moon Fairy ATC earlier however I went back to it a while later and thought ...this is not yet finnished...enough for me... so out came a franked postage stamp to complete it ..now I am H A PP Y with it. xxx

Denise and Chriss xx