Tag Archive: Altered Art
Ok I had an aha moment this afternoon with the ATC I just posted. I have a feeling you will either love it, or scratch your head saying you don’t get it….
I was looking through an old dictionary from 1960 that I use words and pages from. Over the holidays I ripped apart an old laptop computer and have a bag full of parts now. Well, in 1960, computer was not even listed in the dictionary, and keyboard was referred to as piano keys, and a typesetting machine.
I know, rather an esoteric ATC — but art none the less.
FInally played a little the past few weeks. Here are 3 new Artist Trading Cards that I made for a swap…
Land of the Free
Mayflower Journey
Winterland Baby
Here is the one I did for an art group exchange:
Cover
Inside
slides
I finally have some new art to post. This was my first attempt at a microscope slide mailer. I had a lot of fun with this one, and plan and doing a couple more very soon.
Imagine Cover
Imagine Inside
Imagine Slides
I am not sure the title “he cracked up” will make sense in the picture, but if you look closely it appears the joker is behind cracked glass. I coated him with UTEE and sprinkled in micro beads. After it cooled, I bent the card in different directions to make it crack.
He Cracked Up
I have been having trouble coming up with one more unique page. As I said in the beginning, I wanted to try different things on each page using different ideas and materials.
I went to make cookies this morning, and the butter box was an eagle carrying the word butter. A light bulb went off, and I ran upstairs to craft (No the cookies are not even started yet).
Flying Butter
Our church has an annual auction every year for raise money for various programs. It is called Make It/ Bake It. Members make and bake things thats that are offered in both a silent and live auction. Here are my contributions for this years.
First I made 8 domino magnets and a key chain. Nothing fancy, just alcohol ink, dominoes, and sealant.
magnets and keychain
My second contribution were 4 frames that I embellished with vintage game pieces, then sprayed with a sealant.
Bingo
Pokeno
Concentration
Scrabble
This was my first attempt at altering a mint tin. The theme is “at the beach” The outside was done with stream and silver alcohol inks. The shells on top are images stamped in translucent oven bake clay, then painted with alcohol inks.
The lid
The diarama inside
