Sketchy Leaves ATC's

Hi there, 
Ellie here with you today sharing a fun technique for a large background (masterboard) to be cut up to make several cards and ATC's. 
I will only share the finished ATC's today. 

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Adhere several smaller torn pieces of colored paper and book paper to a large piece of sturdy paper. Choose the colored paper's colors from a moodboard or other source so they will match the colors you want your background to be when finished.
 Leave to dry.  
Cover the whole surface with watered-down white gesso using a palette knife. Immediately dab gesso away from areas you want to preserve more than other parts with a damp cloth.
Leave to dry.  

Stamp with several background stamps in several colors onto the  background as shown. 
Leave to dry. 
Add extra color (I added light green only) to the background. 

Now cut it up to the size of ATC's and cards. 

For today's post I finished the four ATC's only, I will share the four cards on a later date. 
Enjoy!  

Above the four ATC's I've made adhering fussy cut images and words to it. 

This is such an easy way to create multiple backgrounds in one go.

Hope you like it and got inspired.

Please share in our FB group; there's a chance to win a prize from the shop! 

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Art Stamps Shop

Sketchy Leaves

Retro Beach (post card)

Mix A Sentiment 1

Mix a sentiment #2

Mixed Media Marks #1

Mixed Media Marks #3

Book 35 - for series 52

The book has two signatures; therefore the spine of the book has two twigs to which the signatures are attached with thread
(book number 35 in my series of binding books).

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 21

For further info on this series : see this post

For more pictures and information on the making of the set of multiple books I made, see this post please : 
2022 Topic 15: Paper, Seeds & Twigs {by Ellie Knol} with Tracy Scott Stamps

Have fun creating! 

Vintage Antique Botanical Card

 

Today I am sharing a vintagy card on book paper...
 
The flower looks as if it has been made for this .. 

Adding a white watered down white gesso tones down the script on the bookpaper, and also lightens it a bit. The gesso also forms a barrier so the paper will not soke up all the color when adding color to the images. I colored the flowers with Ecoline, a fluid watercolor and added a few more touches with a water-based ink marker.  
The edges were sponged inward towards the image with a light blue distress ink.. where there is no gesso on the edges it will take up more color as to where there is gesso. 

To make the flower pop even more I added more white acrylic (also watered down to blend into the background better) around the image. 
The rest of the card speaks for itself I assume. 

Have a good day!

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Webshop

Antique Botanicals

My Creative Monday for Magenta - Flower Collage

 

A recipe: 
Old Book Paper and stamps... 

.. and color.. 

...and of course white paint splatters! 

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

48.017 Daisy Small 
Ellie Knol designs

Mandala Dreams [14.679.Q]

Bubbles [C.0077]

My creative Monday for Magenta - Technique with tape

 

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I nice and easy technique ATC from me today.. 
Adhere strips of tape to bookpaper and burnish them well. 
Tear them off; it will lift the top layer of paper; adhere these strips to a colorful background.  
Add extra watercolor to add more interest, as shown. Leave to dry. 
Clean up the background with a dry cloth; it will leave the tape a lighter color. 
Add watered-down gesso and leave to dry. Splatter with white gesso too. 
Stamp the focal point to white cardstock and fussy cut it.
Add color to it and adhere to background. 

Have a nice sunny day.. I am in the garden a lot at the moment. 

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

K.0452 Swirl Leaf

My Creative Monday for Magenta - Stencil Fun

I LOVE to create mixed media cards with backgrounds of bookpaper. 

Basically use stencils, Nuance and structure paste
 and just let things happen.  

My Creative Monday for Magenta -

Ellie Knol - DT Magenta

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Produits Magenta utilisés:

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

Mandala Dreams [14.679.Q]

08.066.O Floral Heart

TM321 Duo Feuillages d'automne [TM321]

TM311 Floral Tapestry

All Nuances

My Creative Monday for Magenta - playful cards

Paper napkins, bookpaper and stamps are always fun: it's easy to create playful cards... 

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

Mandala Dreams [14.679.Q]

Inspiration TIMI challenge time

If you fancy to enter a challenge.. go join in with the TIMI challenge.. 

I  LOVE making mixed media cards..

If you join the challenge you could win: 

2020 #3 On This Tag: Giant Tag with ESC {by Ellie Knol}

The theme on the Paper Artsy blog is : On This Tag.. I LOVE tags... 

a sneak peek here, for more go see the PA blog! 

Inspiration TIMI challenge for February..

TIMI challenge .. for February!!

I have a mixed media page today.. a gelliprint leaf on deli paper used to make a collage on bookpaper ..
. The stamp is from Paper Artsy. 

My Creative Monday for Magenta - art journaling

A play page this time...

one from an art journal I tore apart.. the binding was so bad... 

I decided to make cards from the pages. 

I am entering this in the challenge on The Flower Challenge - add leaves

Magenta products used:

Link to boutique

14.678.O Petal Flourish - Flowers and Leaves

Thanks for everything [07.1033.F]