Altered Playing Card Challenge and Getting Packed to Go!

Hi Everyone!  Since my last post I have been busy getting lots of art stuff ready to take on holiday for my 3 day catch up with my AFA New Zealand and Australian Friends which has included me stamping out and cutting up 100 x ATC Backs, and cutting up ATC Blanks along with preparing kits for the two classes I am teaching whilst there.

I will be teaching my Spring Topper and Paper Doll Christmas Angels.

I did however also manage to find time to join the fun of the Altered Playing Card Challenge being hosted by Claudine over on her blog.

Week 1 was to prep your playing cards by sanding and/or adding Gesso and for Week 2 Claudine shared cards created by using Spray Inks to create her background.

Here's a look at my two cards using Dylusions Spray Inks for my Backgrounds.

This Tim Holtz Quote Stamp was already out on my Desk and is so true!   I would drink to that hence my cute choice of collage image.

This bird stamp was also out on my desk from another project.  I added a little texture to the top half of the card background using a handmade stamp and a green ink  My word Fly was stamped on white then colored with Gelatos using a waterbrush.  

Around the edges of both cards I have used a checked border stamp by Dylusions.  I colored in some of the squares with a White Posca Paint Pen.

This is definitely going to be my last post before we fly out on Friday.......but I will try and do a post or two while we are away and I have a post going live a little later next week for Altered Pages where I will be using my Pan Pastels to create a fun journal page dedicated to my love of coffee.

Have a great week!