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Tonight I worked on seven artist trading cards (ATCs). I finished only one — enough that I feel OK posting about them as my thing-a-day, but not enough to warrant a photo. So, hopefully I’ll wake up early enough in the morning to finish 3-6 more and get a scan attached to this post. They’re paper collage with added layers of pigment, hand-drawing/lettering, fabric and embellishments.

Update: Adhesives are all dry, I did a bit of embossing atop some of them and here they are (click the image for a close-up):

Ok, I’ve been a bad girl and not blogging, but things have been kinda hectic for me at the moment.

So here’s a wrap up of the past week:

Day 14….worked briefly on some swaps that I had to get out and into the mail the next day.

Day 15 & day 16. Played around wit Maggie Maggio’s Color Scales Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4_gkZ226c

http://www.maggiemaggio.com/color/

Now whether or not you use polymer clay, it is certainly worth while picking up a few blocks of clay and playing around with color mixing. (Michaels’s Arts & Crafts has it on sale for .99 this week, btw)

Day 17: Made an orange cane to use for a matchbox swap.

Used this tute: http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/candy_citrus.html. Of course I can’t follow instructions to save my life, so I missed the step for wrapping the log in the medium orange sheet before wrapping in the darker sheet. Oh well.

Cane before reducing:

Day 18: Playing around withPosh Inkabilities inks. Haven’t made anything yet, but probably will make some beads tonight.

Day 19: Faux Stained glass…or something like that. Rubber stamped clay and painted with liquid clay mixed with powdered pigments. Baked then topped with UTEE.

I forgot to post yesterday’s “Thing-a-day” kreation.

I was actually int the middle of cleaning up, no let’s say re-organizing…that sounds so much better, the krpaht room.  So I didn’t have much time to play.  I filled a little cheapie bezel with some mokume gane.. It turned out pretty cool.

For day 10, I decided to make something from a new book I picked up, “Paper Transformed: A Handbook of Surface-Design Recipes and Creative Paper Projects.”    Pretty good book.

Of course I right right for the techniques that used the UTEE…I’m addicted to this stuff.

The technique I started doing is called sea-glass.  But since my muse can’t follow instructions well.  I’m not sure this is the way it should have turned out. In any event, I love the final look.  The texture is very nice.