Altered ATC Shrine

Hi everyone, Shanna here with some spring to share!!!

I really wanted to have something bright and uplifting on my desk!

Something to remind me spring is here (even though it may not feel like it).

So I created a spring-like ATC Shrine. I love these little containers and it has been a while since I have played with one.

I added a label to the front titling this shrine "Happiness."  Each piece got a cover with gesso than with some Distress Paints. The purple I toned down with gesso.

I painted the shrine first with gesso than with Broken China Distress Paint. I then dry brushed gesso all over the container again.

I decorated the inside with Graphic 45 papers, moss, and a cute little butterfly, which was painted with Distress Paint and given a coat of Crackle Accents. 

Gina's Designs Items Used:

ATC Shrine - Window 1

Butterflies and Dragonflies Shape Set

Stackable Label Shape Set

I do hope you are enjoying your current weather or that better weather is on the way! 

Fairy Atc Shrine and Atc

Hi everyone! Melissa here with an ATC shrine and ATC for Gina's Designs. These little shrines really get my imagination going. I had fun adding different things to the top.

To decorate the shrine I first prepped it with gesso. I painted it with Jaquard Lumieres mixed with  White Viva Modeling Cream, to lighten the color. I wanted it to be pinker so I painted on Twinkling H20s. While it was wet I added on some red watercolors. When it was dry I rubbed on some white pearlex powder. I painted the door with silver leaf paint.

Thanks for looking!

Chipboard used:

ATC Shrine - Time

Other:

Fairies from Prima paper

 A Petaloo and Prima flower

A small part of Prima pearl bling

Jaquard Pearlex Powder

Luminarte Twinkling H20s

Plaid Liquid Silver Leaf Paint

Winton and Lewis Watercolors

Lumiere Acrylic Paint

 Swarovski pointed back crystals, and green flatbacks

Martha Stewart punch

A few small pieces of Vintaj metal

Pressed leaves and some lichens from my yard

Layout by Donna and Cross Promotion Projects by the Craftsupplies1 Team

Hello Friends!  Today we have lots of inspiration to share.  First up we have our team member Donna sharing a gorgeous layout, and following that we are sharing more of the amazing October cross promotional projects created by the team at Craftsupplies1.  

It's Donna here today to share a fall layout using one of Gina's beautiful flourished frames.

I wanted to keep this layout very simple because I wanted the gorgeous Flourished Frame - Bella to be the star of the show! It's a really beautiful design! 

I prepared the chipboard frame with a coat of white gesso. I then painted it with Tattered Angels, Palm leaf, glitter paint. While still wet, I added pine needles and orange embossing powder.

I only glued the middle frame part down so that I could pull up and lightly twist up the leaves.

Thank you so, so much for stopping by Gina's and taking a look at my Fall layout!

Gina's Designs

Flourished Frame - Bella

Other items

Maja Design - Walking in the Forest paper

Tattered Angels - Pine needles glimmer paint

Ranger - embossing powders: pine needle and orange

Gesso

Hello friends! Today we would like to share more of the truly amazing projects by the Craftsupplies1 team for our Cross Promotional this month. We have been so inspired by Julie's team and are so grateful for all their hard work and creativity!

Here we have a dual take on our large alarm clock. The left hand side is created by Becky C, and on the right by Corene P. These ladies have done an outstanding job and really have shown the versatility of this piece. Great work Ladies!



Here is the link to their videos

Becky's Video

Corene's Video

Design team member Becky has also created this truly inspired box using one of our book boxes and some fun items from our store, including one of our dress forms and also one of the gears borders and corners. We love the earthy tones and gorgeous flowers from Craftsupplies1.

Here is the link to Becky's Book Box Video

 Next up we have two of our standing dress forms decorated by Codi and Heather.  They are truly inspired work! On the left is Codi's take with a lovely shabby and chic look and on the right is Heather's vintage steampunk look. They are truly amazing creations!

Below are the links to their videos

Codi's Video

Heather's Video

Next up we have a wonderful creative take on our large spool.  This was created by DT Member Codi as well. She has incorporated our trees and given them some sparkle and shine! We love the fantasy look of the spool and the Craftsupplies1 parchment flowers add a gorgeous finishing touch.



Here is the link to Codi's Video

And last but not least we have some fun and different projects from Ashley B. and Kristina O.

Ashley has stepped outside of the box creating these very cool canvas'. She has done them up in a shabby tea theme, with some of the tea string alongs, and alarm clock frame ups.  They would look amazing hanging in any kitchen or tea room!

On the right Kristina has altered one of our ATC shrines. We love the pretty in pink tones, which mix with some of the new fabric flowers that Craftsupplies1 has in stock.

Ashley's Video

Kristina's Video

Thank you so much to all the talented Designers from Craftsupplies1 and also to owner Julie as well. We are truly inspired by all of your work!  For more information on these projects please check out the videos linked above.

Check out both Craftsupplies1 Stores on Etsy and Zibbet

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Craftsupplies1



Zibbet: http://www.zibbet.com/Craftsupplies1

ATC Shrine and ATC by Melissa

Hi, Melissa here for Gina's Chipboard Laser Designs

I think Gina's ATC shrines are adorable. 

I painted the shrine with the following:

1.Two coats of gesso.

2. Silver ink on the door and in various areas on the rest of the shrine.

3. Two coats of Viva Decor Modeling Cream,then Viva Decor Metallic paint on all areas except for the door.

3. A thick layer of Crackle Accents on the door.

4. A layer of watercolors,on the door. I wiped off the excess while wet. What was left, stayed in the cracks. 

I rubbed on some silver Perfect Pearls with my finger.

The chipboard on the ATC on the right was painted with gesso, then watercolors.

Thanks for looking!

Chipboard used:

ATC Shrine - Steampunk

Art Deco Border and Corners

Other:

Winton and Lewis Watercolors

Twinkling H20s

Viva Modeling Cream

Ranger Crackle Accents

Swarovski crystals

Butterfly by Reneabouquet
Viva Colour Precious Metal Effect Paint
Perfect Pearls in silver
Watercolor paper

ATC Shrine by Shanna with Gina's Designs and Kitty's Scrap Post

Hello everyone. Shanna here to share a quick and fun ATC Shrine that I made using some digital papers from Kitty's Scrap Post. This month you get to see all the designers using these fabulous papers.

I love these shrines because you can truly do anything with them!

I gave the box a coat of black paint. Then I went over it with gold paint and buffed it off to give it a vintage feel. 

The clock hands got a coat of gesso then some Tattered Angels paints. 

I couldn't help but add a bit of dimension to the cut outs on the inside of the shrine. 

Hope you got a shrine of inspiration and thanks for stopping by today!

Items Used:

ATC Shrine - Time

Clock Hands Shape Set

Papers by Kitty's Scrap Post - Time Traveler Collection

Owl ATC Shrine by Marfa

Good morning to all of you creative people in blogland!  This is Crafting Marfa.  Today's blog post is bitter sweet for me.  This is my last project as a designer for Gina's Designs.  I have had the time of my life creating with Gina's chippies and hardboard items.  Honest to goodness, I would not trade my time in this team for anything in the world!  

So, on to today's project.  I want to share with you all my Owl ATC Shrine.  This shrine is made of hardboard and it makes for an awesome little photo frame.  I painted it with several shades of brown.  Then I glued brown beads to bring out the tree.  I used a few rhinestone hearts that I've had in my stash for years to accentuate the body of the owl and to decorate the fence.  Then I glued square rhinestones to outline the box.  They also act as two little legs to lift up the front of the box.  I covered the tree with ICE resin and the rest of the box is covered with acrylic gloss.  Just a little, not too much.  Finally I put a photo of a flower from my garden that I really love.  Even though I don't make Artist Trading Cards, I still really love to use Gina's ATC Shrines as little photo frames. 

Gina's Designs Supplies:  

Owl ATC Shrine

Other Supplies:

  Acrylic paint

Acrylic gloss

 ICE resin

beads, rhinestones, and glue.

ATC Shrine with ATC by Melissa

Hi everyone! Melissa here with an ATC shrine by Gina's Designs Lasercuts, and an ATC to go inside.  

 

I started by coating the shrine's pieces with a few coats of gesso, and I was careful to not get any gesso on the tabs on the hardboard so that they would fit correctly.  When it was dry I assembled it and painted it with  Precious Metal Colours in blue, then dry brushed on a little bronze.

 

I then poured on thin lines of alcohol ink in purple, and as quickly as possible I wiped it off.  I did the same thing using yellow. The ink made some areas green,   which took some of the sheen off, and I then added a little purple. I really liked the effect it made!

 

  I put a little more blue on in different areas. The leaves on the front are green liquid pearls, then green lumieres,with more bronze and blue on top. To get it lighter on the inside I put on a little pearl colored paint,and some gold leaf on glossy accents. Thanks for looking!

ATC Shrine-Leaves , by Gina's Lasercuts Designs

Other Products used:

Viva Decor Precious Metal Color in turquoise, mother of pearl, and bronze

Ranger alcohol ink in purple twilight, and sunshine yellow

Gel pens

Marvy Uchida DecoColor Liquid Silver Opaque Paint Markers, in gold and silver

 Swarovski crystals

Memory glass by Ranger

Tim Holtz metal

gold leaf

metal frog prince

watercolor paper

Winton and Lewis watercolors

Mixed Media ATC and Shrine & Background Tutorial by Kim

Happy Friday Everyone! Today I have a really fun and quick project to share with you. I have used one of the ATC shrines from Gina's Store, this one is the Swirl ATC Shrine. I have also created an ATC to go inside, and below you will find the tutorial for the background technique I have used to create it.

I really love these shrines, they are so fun to alter, and you can do them in so many different ways, Gina has a great selection of them, which you can find HERE

 I made this Shrine to look like an ATC itself, and on all the sides and back I wanted it to mimic being an ATC. I love working with mixed media so I had a blast making this!

Here is the inside of the ATC Shrine and you can see I have made my ATC as well, and also decorated the inside of the shrine. I love Gina's Doilies and I also used some of the chipboard honeycomb and bees set which I embossed. I also stamped the back of the ATC with a stamp from Stampin' Up.

Here is my tutorial on how I achieved the background effect on the ATC.

First, cut your chipboard to 3 1/2'' x 2 1/2'', and gesso both sides. Get out your clear embossing powder, any brand is fine and your clear embossing ink, I have used Ranger for this tutorial. Choose what stamps you want to use, now you are ready to begin.

Stamp your chosen stamps in the ink and place on the ATC, pressing firmly. Once you have covered your ATC with your stamps and ink, sprinkle your clear embossing powder all over your card.

Your ATC should look something like the bottom left photo, then use your heat gun to melt the embossing powder.

It should now look like the photo on the bottom left. Get out your colored inks, I have used Ranger distress inks for this tutorial.

Using your blending tool or sponge and blend different areas of your ATC with different colors of the inks until you are happy with the end result. I used 4 different colors on mine.

Your ATC should resemble this photo below. Its like magic!

 The clear embossing powder will stay white and your ink colours will blend nicely in the background, its a very cool effect!

 Here is a photo of the unfinished ATC with the background done, and one I did for the ATC Shrine. I love how they turned out. This is a great effect and it looks much harder than it actually is. It is really fun to do, so I hope you will give it a try!

You can add some stencils and mixed media texture paste to the background now and layer on some chipboard and other embellishments to finish off your ATC.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial this month! Thanks for stopping by!

Gina's Designs Items Used

ATC Shrine Swirl

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Honeycomb & Bees

Wood Key and Plate

Butterfly & Dragonfly Set

Other Items Used

Americana Paint

Recollections Gold Embossing Powder

Stampendous  Clear, Shabby Pink & Shabby Blue Embossing Powder

Tim Holtz Distress Inks & Metal Sentiment

Shimmerz Texturez Patina

Wild Orchid Craft Flowers

My Minds Eye Paper

Stamps from Inkadinkadoo and Stampin Up

Cross Promotion with Craftsupplies1





Hi Everyone, this is our last posting for our big Craftsupplies1 Cross Promotion for  the month of March. We have had so much fun working with the Craftsupplies1 Team this month, and hope we can do it again one day!  

So without further ado, here are some more of the amazing Craftsupplies1 Design Team projects!

First up is Kim, who is also a member of our Design team, and this week she created a lovely shabby vintage tea pot using some of our new Tea Time shapes and border set.

 

Here is a link to Kim's Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ivY-Q3aeY

Next we have a beautiful Altered Letter by Ashley, she has featured some of our dressforms on her letter.

Ashley's video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPd-rf2q2n4

Here is an amazing Altered Steampunk ATC by Jennifer, we just love what she did here!

Here is Marla R's Project an Altered Matchbox featuring some of our pieces, it's just gorgeous!

Here is a link to Marla's Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rNfbFQY1PM

And Lastly, we would like to share this video by Heather who has created a gorgeous butterfly box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6v4tz1akFo

We want to thank Julie from Craftsupplies1 for all her hard work this month and for all the fun we have had working with her team of very talented ladies! Everyone on the Gina's Design's Team has been thrilled to work with the beautiful products from Craftsupplies1 and also for being able to work with such a fantastic team. Thanks so much everyone!

Please visit Julies stores, Craftsupplies1 on Etsy and Zibbet

Etsy Store

Zibbet Store



An Altered Tin by Nancy and an ATC shrine by Veronica

First up is Nancy with an altered tin.

Hi everyone, Nancy here!  I might be rushing the season just a wee bit, but when Gina designed these new mermaids, I simply couldn't wait to have some fun with them.  I'm calling this piece a mermaid aquarium.  The mermaids are available as a set of 12 in varying sizes.  I used the 4 inch size thinking I'd start small then once it gets closer to Summer, I can go much bigger with a 12 x 12 canvas project.  For this fun project, I used a tin I'd had in my stash for a couple of years.  It's a little bit larger than an altoid tin at nearly 4 x 6.  I used mod podge to apply Japanese lace papers to the tin for texture, used ink sprays in ocean colors, then coated it with clear glass bead gel.  I painted my mermaids with twinkling H2O's and then applied glass microbeads over a coating of glossy accents.  I also used our new catweed shape in the background, a clump of chipboard grass at the bottom, and a section of palm tree at the top for some extra tropical appeal.  Everything else I used was already in my stash.  My favorite part of a creation is looking through my stash to find things that are perfect, and it's so exciting when I find just the right pieces.  I wanted it to look like an aquarium so I found various wood pieces to create a stand.  I hope you like it!

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Mermaids Shape Set

Palm Trees Shape Set

Grass and Foliage

Catweed Shape Set

Fanciful Elements

Other Products:

Glass bead gel

Prima Lady Bird flowers

Japanese Lace papers from Dick Blick

Ink Sprays

Wooden decorative elements from Hobby Lobby

Gilder's Paste

Twinkling H2O's

Glass microbeads

Butterfly by Renea Bouquets on Etsy

Next up is Veronica

Hello Everyone!  It's Veronica here and today I want to share a project from Gina's Designs!  Her ATC Shrines are so much fun to decorate, and truly make wonderful gifts for any occasion! 

The ATC Shrine that I chose is titled Time.

 Mine is a simple project, but the possibilities that you can come up with on any one of Gina's ATC Shrines is endless!

 They all have a small door to open.....so cute!

 Just the perfect size to store your ATC's or, just simply decorate like a tiny shadow box, as I've seen many others who've bought these do.

 Peek - A- Boo! Says the little mouse! He has to figure out how to open the small door to get to his cheese set up on top!

Thank you for taking a look. I truly had fun with this one! It was so simple to complete an over all finished look!  You can always keep adding to make it more decorative, but sometimes I prefer a simpler design.

Gina's Designs

ATC Shrines - Time

Old scrapbook paper in my stash of many!

Americana Acrylic Paint - Buttermilk

Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Spray - Pearl Green.

 Beacon 3-in-1 Glue