FREE MARIE ANTOINETTE IMAGES

Just popped on to upload this ATC which I have created for Carol as she challenged me to a swap on 2 themes one being 'Rock the Clock' and the other being 'Marie Antoinette'

Here is Marie...fab image found FREE yes FREE on Blanca's blog see below for link.

Turn away now Carol if you dont want to see this ATC..rofl.

Here she is headless....




And here she is legless lol

Hope Carol likes her...I am loving her and may have to make one for myself too.

thanks for looking.

Don't forget Gaby's challenge for this month 'Peeling Paint Backgrounds' some of you already put yours on your blog... well done I am out later to buy Vaseline.

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.

Blog Candy Winners

No Marley today, football calls and so we have RANDOM GENERATOR to do the honours.

Good Luck everyone.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

12....... The stamps

7..........an ATC from me

4 .........an ATC from me

Timestamp: 2010-04-24 07:48:49 UTC

Even I do not know at this point who has won.

I am off for a look now.

Have a great weekend

2nd post of Winter Day ATC's

Karen D, welcome Karen your first time with us :) Loved the use of Christmas serviettes.

Gez brilliant CI stamp used above thanks for taking on the challenge as I know you have been busy caring for your dad x

Chriss, I loved doing these (above).

Dawn, your first swap with us big welcome. x

Still more winter ATC's to be shown soon.

February's doodle challenge is on the post below, create your ATC's put them on your blog before you post them, leave a comment and then we can all come and visit you :)

Below is also my OWOH give away.

Hey the workmen are finally here to put a lintel above my kitchen window 7 months later....yahooo!

Only another dozen jobs to finish before I can do the nice stuff like put paint and pics on walls and a carpet on the stairs.

chriss x

EVERYONES A WINNER BABY, THATS FOR SURE

The very last of our birthday gifts S9 AND FS20 from the very generous Patty over at LAA


Who will be the the lucky person going home with them I wonder?


Popping out to generate the lucky number from Random.org be right back.

Pheeew all that running back and forth.... here we go....

I had also left a comment on this post, comment number 1 and so when putting the comments into the random number finder i left out mine and so we start at number 2-13

Good Luck Everyone

Off to see who won them.... BUT.... before you leave we have a little goody bag for each guest who attended our 3rd Birthday Bash.

First the winner of the other goodies

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

8

Timestamp: 2010-01-28 00:19:23 UTC

TO FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE WON CHECK OUT THE GENERATED NUMBER/S ON ALL THE ORIGINAL POSTS YOU LEFT COMMENTS ON


Now we all know you can't possibly have a Birthday Party without Birthday Cake and so... da-da....

Like magic you all get to take home a sheet of cupcakes and a sheet of phrases with you, my little thank you....now how good is that.


Thank you all for coming I soooooo enjoyed it.

Please would everyone who won ATC's send me their snail mail addy and those of you who won one or more of LAA send me the email addy you wish to receive your images and cake in..... watch out for the crumbs they make a mess in your printer. lol

This all took a little longer than I thought to post and so the BIRD ATC draw will be posted on Thursday evening.

That will keep you guessing...lol.

Good night to you all xxx

That's why they call it the blues...winners

10 members left a comment on these 2 blue's using CI harlequin and ledger stamps on the alchol ink backgrounds...inky fingers getting down and dirty with inks... love it.

Who are receiving them in the post very soon I wonder....

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7

10

Timestamp: 2010-01-27 17:46:41 UTC

Good Luck xx

where in the world are they going to live?

Another 8 comments left on this post so just who has been picked to give them a home?

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

1

2


Timestamp: 2010-01-27 17:27:14 UTC

Top one to number 1 who is happy to be herself..lol

bottom 1 to number 2 who is just discovering her Zetti legs.

they wont cost you anything as they wont need feeding.

Good Luck xxx

popping off to see who's home they are going to. x


scroll down are you the owner of any of our BB ATC's

2 MORE RANDOM WINNERS X

Thanks once again Chris for these 2 fab ATC's to give as pressies.

2 lucky winners will be chosen at random..

1st number out gets tip one and so on.

We had 8 comments on this post.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7

4

Timestamp: 2010-01-27 16:22:16 UTC

Good Luck xxx

SCROLL DOWN FOR OTHER BB WINNERS

2 MORE WINNERS X

AGAIN 2 WINNERS ON THIS POST

First number out gets the top one and 2nd number the one below.

We had 10 comments left on this post.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

10

2

Timestamp: 2010-01-27 16:10:04 UTC

Good Luck to you all xxx

2nd ATC WINNER

Who is the winner of this Miss Daisy ATC there were 12 comments left on this post check out the random number below and then see was it you...

I am off to have a look too as I do not know myself... I am putting the random number in as a copy and paste as I have forgotten how to put it in without the whole page COMING UP...lol.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers: 9

Timestamp: 2010-01-27 14:59:49 UTC

GOOD LUCK ALL XXX

SEE POST BELOW FOR 1st WINNER

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

BLOG CANDY WINNERS AND ATC's

HELLO EVERYONE,

Well here we are with our winner's of the fabulous blog candy kindly donated by a very generous lady, Joan.... see her link under our blog candy sponsors..and why not check out some more of her lovely stamps.

I asked my DGS Marley to do the honours by pulling the names out of the hat......well my mixing bowl actually...... a bargain buy from a charity shop, all of £2 .....can you believe it :)

That chef is me...lol.

And the first out of the bowl is the winner of that FAB plate of Hermines stamps.... lucky you.

Our second name out is .... the winner of 3 twinchie stamps

And our 3rd winner also gets 3 twinchie stamps and she is ......all the way from Australia .....

Very well done to all 3.

Please send me your snail addy and I will pass it on to Joan she will send out your prizes ....ENJOY and if you want to show us something you create then email me a pic.

And as it's New Year I will send everyone else an ATC for taking part and if I don't already have your snail mail I will contact you. x

Please excuse the unpainted walls but my builder still hasn't come back to put a lintel in and then finish plastering and so I cant paint the kitchen. ... 5months of excuses...lol.

Some more of our KEY challenge ATC's

Thank you Chris love that grungy look x

Thank you to Karen, you really must see these in real life, love those words. x

Thank you Paula very girly and blingy all the way from Brunei x Paula has just set herself a blog up you can find her on the right...please pop over and make her welcome she has been doing our ATC challenges for more than a year now.

Pauls has also recruited her friend Tina also living in Brunei...welcome Tina we will meet and see her winter ATC's

I am sure there was something else I was gona tell ya BUT I cannot remember what it was...lol...the pills are not working.... Ah! I am back... I have remembered.... We ladies have our very 1st MALE stripper..oooops! sorry I mean SWAPPER..he is Nigel and you can find him over HERE.

Think thats it for now will be back again soon with some more KEY ATC's.

Don't forget our monthly challenge this month it's ZETTIOLOGY all details if you wish to join in are in the post below.

Happy Friday.

love Chriss x