100 Acre Wood Series 2 Artist Trading Cards

 Here is what I came up with for the ATC Winnie the Pooh swap hosted by Wishful Thinking.  6 cards total are required for the swap.  The background is made with Distress Inks, a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamp and an embossed tree (don't know manufacturer):

The Pooh's are EK Success Disney Classic Die Cuts and the quotes are cut from 12 x 12 Reminisce cardstock .  The Pooh's are popped up on foam to make them stand out from the background (I didn't want to ink around Pooh and make him grungy).  

Famous Saying

Stop and Smell the Roses

 

Never Go Hungry

 

Move Forward

Piglet Hugs

Rumbly Tumbly

Honey Friend

I sure hope my swap partners like them!

100 Acre Wood Series 1 ATC's

   There is one paper craft store within a half hour drive of where I live (I can remember when there were 5!).  The store is called Wishful Thinking and is located at 41 S. Van Buren St. Nashville, Indiana,  47448 USA.  Apparently, they have a monthly ATC swap.  I have never played along, but I thought I might give it a go for the next swap due in August.  The difficulty for me is that I haven't paper crafted in quite a while and I didn't know if I would be able to think of a way to make a card that followed the theme for August.  I don't think, I am the only person that has insecurities in this area.  Unfortunately, I can't draw much, so I am limited to mixed media cards. The theme is "Winnie the Pooh." 

   In order to test the waters, so to speak I dug through my scrapbook stash and found some stickers by EK Success that were left over from when my grandson was little (he's an adult now!).  

Card #1 titled "Oh, bother" has Distress Ink, pen, Tim Holtz words and an Eeyore 3D sticker on watercolor paper:

Oh, bother

Card #2 is Tigger, made much the same only with alcohol ink on yupo :

Bounce

For Piglet, I went back to the watercolor paper and Distress Ink.

A Friend

And that was all the stickers that I had in my stash!  My next step was to go to Wishful Thinking to see what they had in stock for Winnie the Pooh.  

To Be At The Beach

  The weather outside is still frightful -- blowing snow, slick roads, temps in the single digits (and not always on the positive side).   We have had very few sunny days this winter; it seems to be affecting my outlook, because the beach card that I made for my cousin has the feel of a beach during a thunderstorm.  Totally, not intentional, but the psychology of card making knows what it knows.  It doesn't help that the picture isn't very good -- forgot to get any whites and gray tones in the shot, so it adjusted the color automatically and wrong.

Rubbernecker

  Image Stamp:  Rubbernecker

Sentiment Stamp:  Impression Obsession

Ink:  Memento

Cardstock:  Bazzill, Almond Cream

Copics:  YR65, E31, E51, E33, B05, E43

ProMarker:  Duck Egg

   A cheerful beach scene obviously is beyond my powers today, but when I pulled out my little envelope of beachy stuff, I found some Jolee's stickers that I had forgotten about.  Don't you just love it when you find a hidden surprise like that?  I ripped up 3 different colors of glitter paper, inked the edges and added some of the stickers.   I couldn't find a sentiment stamp for this card, which is probably for the best since this type glitter paper doesn't take ink well.  Here's my much happier under-water card. 

EK Success

 -- Let's Go To The Beach!