ARE YOU A WINNER?

Time for our blog candy winners

All week my camera has been playing silly beggars not letting me down load my photos onto the computer so no Marley pulling the names from the hat :( instead we used the random org thingymajig....


I received 13 correct answers to the treasure hunt.


This is the order in which I received them.


Good Luck everyone.... in reverse order


13 Chris



12 Carol P



11 Debbie



10 Jan Smith



9 Nigel



8 Sheila J



7 Jan





6 Jo





5 Dawn





4 Rosie





3 Electra



2 Tina



1 Yvonne D



Here are our winners


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Enjoy your fab grab bag of goodies.


Thank you to Fay our very generous sponsor. .. check out her EBay shop in the side bar her blanks are quality and a great price buy more than one item the postage is excellent


Have a great Sunday

Our May ATC Challenge from Gaby xx

The 1st of May and another challenge has been set for us by our lovely guest designer, self taught multi-media artist Gaby.... this lady is soooo talented please be sure to check out her blog over H E R E



Scroll down her pages and see some of her AMAZING artist trading cards... OH, those rust miniature ATC works of ART are to die for.


Now then anyone who knows me will know I LOVE backgrounds and Gaby has set us a background challenge for this months theme, I myself have never tried it and so out of my comfort zone once again, lol :))


Over to Gaby....

For those of you who don’t know me yet, I’m Gaby from Germany.

I am a self-taught mixed media artist. I have a lot of interests, with a focus on collage.

This form allows me to use so many different methods and materials. My art is spontaneous.

I like the creative process, layering of many different materials including paint, ink, paper, photographs and found elements.

I love all kinds of art, but my special love is the ATCs. I’m always interested in new techniques and challenges, so my art can continue to evolve… only my everyday "job" sets the limits...

It’s a real honor to be invited as May’s guest designer. Thank you Chriss!

My theme for this month is “The Peeling Paint Technique” that Claudine Hellmuth popularized in her College Discovery Workshop book.

I really love this peeled paint effect and I use it often for the backgrounds.

A short explanation for those who don’t know this technique:

First Step, apply a base coat of paint on your card stock.

Wait for paint to dry fully.

Than apply petroleum jelly intermittently over surface areas, covering areas that you want to expose when the paint peels during a later step.

Apply the petroleum jelly thickly enough to cover the surface that you want to peel. You can use your fingers or a paintbrush.

Paint over the entire surface using a different color of paint. . Allow the paint to dry.

Apply a second coat if desired.

Remove the petroleum jelly, using a soft cloth or paper towel.

The second colour of paint peels off at the same time.

Clean the surface to remove lingering traces of petroleum jelly.

If you like, seal your surface with an acrylic medium such as Golden medium.

Decorate as desired.

You can apply the petroleum jelly over a collage or piece of art work, and then paint over top.

However, you must seal the collage surface first with a coat of acrylic medium. Otherwise, the jelly soaks through your paper.

Have fun!

Have a good one, Gaby

Thank you Gaby it is an honour that you have agreed to be our GD for May 2010.

Thanks Gaby for the tute I can see the sales of Vaseline going up this month...lol.

Time for a huge thank you to Patty for doing us the honour of being our guest designer for us last month, Patty you did us proud, your ATC's arrived and IRL they are even more wonderful xxx

I am thrilled to say that Patty is now one of our newbie club members so we will be seeing more of her work. :)

Welcome to our new followers and thank you for the millions at least it feels like millions of enquiries from new readers about our club, I have been kept very busy this month behind the scenes.

All Swaps have now gone out... I held back on the international ones due to the Iceland troubles so you should get them soon.

We have a lovely sponsor for this month, Fay who runs an Ebay shop selling blank ATC's, inchies, twinchies, rinchies and much more however she is away on business at the moment and has closed her shop until the 9th May.

We will be putting her delightful blog candy grab bag of goodies up then so do pop back on the 9th.

When you have created your ATC's please put them on your blog and leave a comment on this post so that we can come and visit you I do hope that I didnt leave anyone out last month.

Thank you to all who pop over to visit each others blog when they have posted their ATC's.

Wishing you all a brilliant Bank Holiday weekend.

Thanks for joining us.

We Have A Winner

We have a new Blog Candy helper today DGD4 Jessie, she organised the draw herself thanks for the help Jessie x... click on Jessies name to go to her blog.

Lucky winner

And this girl sure is lucky when it comes to The Artist Trading Club give-away's

lets see who I am talking about....

Susan, congratulations and celebrations find Susan over H E R E

Jessie picked out 2 runners up both will receive an ATC made by me...lol... for your sins.

The lucky 2 are Nigel and Anesha :)

Thanks to all 28 for joining in, another freebie coming up soon.

FREE BACKGROUNDS

Look what the lovely Chris from bling-kin-ek has put on her blog for your art and craft use fabby SLOSHED PAINT backgrounds and yes Dawn it is a technical term...lol, pop over and see the others why not collect them all...they is FREE...LOL.

SEE ALL OF TODAY'S AND ALL OF SUNDAYS POSTS BELOW FOR EVEN MORE 'BIRTHDAY GOODNESS' XXX

Thanks Chris. x

30,000 visits and Key ATC's,

Hi Girls and Nigel,

Some more of our KEY challenge ATC's and as you can see I have been playing and managed to put your names on your ART.... thanks for taking part.

Thanks for such a wonderful response to January's challenge, the Zettie ATC's are arriving thick and fast with emails still coming in asking how they can join in with the fun and become a club member.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE.

WOW, last week we went through the 30,000 visitor on our counter and so to celebrate I shall create 6 ATC's and put the names of our club members in a hat, pull out a winner and that person shall receive all 6...because without you all there would be no ATC blog for people to visit and take inspiration from... thanks to all of you who create and send in your challenge ATC's when you can.

Okay, I spent the weekend making ATC's.... how awful is that ...lol... I managed to create 17 to send out to those who entered but didn't win our blog candy draw... so please could you send me your snail mail address.

See more Key ATC's in earlier post's and still more to come in furure post's.

Please check out our Zettiology challenge for January.

Luv Chriss x

JANUARY 2010 ATC CHALLENGE and BLOG CANDY.

H A P P Y N E W Y E A R

A huge welcome to our very talented ATC designer for Jan 2010, hey where did last year go?

Some of you may already know Hermine, I found her on my first day of setting my blog up and have admired her work ever since, she is a great inspiration to so many and a wonderful blogging friend too.

Our 1st challenge of 2010 is... Z E T T I O L O G Y .....AND I AM SHAKING IN MY BOOTS...LOL.. AS LIKE MANY OF US IT TAKES ME WAY OUTSIDE OF MY COMFORT ZONE.
But we all love a challenge ....don't you agree.... I hear you groaning and calling me names, haha... just don't call me too early in the morning...lol.

Below is a small Bio from Hemine....

Hi,
I am from The Netherlands.

I love doing arts and crafts as long as I can remember and I love to do many different things, like mixed media, rubber stamping and my latest addiction is felting.

I have been published many times in the Art Specially Magazines, Art Specially books and was featured artist in Craft Stamper.

I am designing rubber stamps for Joan Gevaert Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking under the name STUDIO Art Stamps and last year my dream came through, I made a book called Hermine's Choice.

The ATC's I made for this challenge are all made with my own designs, except for the script and scratches.

After watching Teesha Moore's You Tube film I simply had to try this technique with stamps only.

Me again,

See Hermines Zettiology ATC's for this challenge she has used all of her own stamps and I think you will agree they are fabulous.... the stamps and the ATC's.

If you would like to watch Teesha Moores video then YOU CAN FIND IT ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE BLOG.

Thank you so much to Hermine for being our Guest ATC Designer for Jan 2010 xxx

Why not pop over HERE to see her amazing blog BE WARNED THOUGH YOU MAY NEED A CUP OF TEA AND CHOCOLATE BISCUITS...LOL... AS YOU WILL BE THERE SOME TIME.

UPDATE

If you would like to be in with a chance of owning one of Hermines Zetti ATC's please join in the fun by creating 5 Zetti style ATC's send 4 into me to be swapped and keep 1 for your own collection.

BLOG CANDY

We have some F A N T A S T I C blog candy up for grabs and all have been designed by our talented artist Hermine....there is the lovely

'Free to be me' plate and the 6 stunning Twinchies below... they have soooo kindly been donated by Joan over HERE and because she was so generous I have decided to split it into 3 prizes....YES 3 fab prizes..... so don't delay keep reading and find out just what you must do to be in with a chance of winning some of this blog candy.

To be in with a chance to own some of this fantastic BLOG CANDY pop over to Joan's shop and find out the price of the 6 gawwwwgus TWINCHIE stamps.

put the answer in an email to me and leave me a comment to let me know you are taking part...remember the total price of all 6 is in Euro's.

I have never seen so many different style of stamps on one online shop....such choice.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL. X

The 1st prize will be the large plate and 2nd and 3rd prize will be 3 twinchies each.

Closing date for the blog candy is midnight UK time 05th January


Thank you soooo much to Joan for her very generous blog candy.... Good luck Everyone...what are you waiting for?

'Put your heART in it' ....is to be our 'Swap 'til you drop' logo.... an ATC I created sometime ago for our Russian doll challenge. Not normally a pink girl but I do love her.

Please help yourself to our ATC logo above.

Thank you to Sue for our fab 'WINTERS DAY' Dec '09 challenge, you did us proud.....we are waiting for a few International set's of ATC's to come in but they should all be out to you by the 12th.

Wishing you all A Healthy and Happy 2010

Thank you for all the support and swapping throughout 2009.

In 2010 we will be doing more online challenges again.

Welcome to our 8 new followers.

Crafty luv coming your way

Chriss x

blog candy winner and bad hair day ayc's

We have a WINNER for the fab fab stamps donated by Janey from Janey Mays.
Many many thanks Janey, why not pop over and pay her a visit she has some christmas specials on... see her link in the post below.

Our WINNER chosen by the true random number generator.....

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Jan.....

well done Jan, enjoy your stamps.... you can find Jan over HERE



A few more BHD ATC's this time from Gini

Welcome Gini a newby to our club, big thanks Gini for taking on our bad hair day challenge love em you can find Gini over HERE why not pop over and pay her a visit. x

Thank you for the November KEY challenge atc's already popping through my door ....must say I was struggling with this one but won in the end. lol.

Check our post below and meet Lorri our ATC guest designer from Australia.

Have a great weekend.

chriss x

HAPPY HALLOWEEN & BHD ATC's

Happy Halloween and many thanks for all the wonderful Halloween ATC's that have been arriving from around the world.. wait 'til you see them.

This cool picture of the pumpkins is from Mieke's blog over HERE

Welcome to Jayne our new follower hope that you are feeling well enough to join Novembers KEYS swap.

So here we are again with more of our fab BAD HAIR DAY swaps this time from Vonny her first time swap with us, big welcome Vonny

Sorry Vonny the scan on your beaded one below doesn't do this gorgeous ATC justice, unsure as to who was lucky enough to receive it but feel that they will agree with me.

Vonny if you have a blog addy could you email me it as I can't find one for you. Thanks for joining in the swap. x

Another first time swapper with us is Carol, huge welcome.

Fantastic colours and brilliant stamps

Thanx for joining us and big thanx for your Halloween ATC swaps too.

You Can Visit Carol over HERE ... See her creative blog header. x

Still a few more BHD swaps to come.

We must Say Many thanks to Martina for being our guest ATC designer for October...THANK YOU, you did a great job showcasing for us.

Tomorrow welcomes our guest designer for November please pop along and meet her.

Thanx to Paula and friend in Brunei I see you paid us a visit through the night.

love Chriss x

Blog Candy AND Bad Hair Day 3

It's Sunday and we have some more BHD ATC's to show you....
But First a huge warm welcome to our new followers.

These gorgeous grungy ones below are from Sharon, you can find her link on the right under blogs.






Once again on your School break so heres hoping you get time to create some more ATC's.
Thank You Sharon. x

Jan's Forever Blowing Bubble's background have a lovely edge of gold embossing powder.

Thanks Jan and even though the postal strike is on your fab Halloween ATC's got through. Find Jan's link on the right. x


Cheryl just loves mixed media and uses it well on her ATC's


Those fibres work great with the images.

loving the Crafty Individual pieces on this one.

Thanks Cheryl...find Cheryl's blog link on the right. x

If you fancy some fab, free, vintage ATC backgrounds to print off then just pop over HERE

DONT FORGET last call for the fab blog candy... see posts below.... free set of KEY rubber stamps from Tanda Stamps.

Still time to get your October ATC's in....must say we have some real spooktacular ones arrived already.

Thanks for joining us.x

Chriss x

P.S. I am loving this new look blog... see top left for a link to other free backgrounds.