Recent ATC's

My recently made and favorite ATC's, which are all sadly sent off to their new owners.

 This is probably my favorite. It's simple but the skull is hand drawn and pretty accurate. You can't tell, but I hand painted the skull metallic silver. Then that was glued onto Dutch ephemera and outlined in black. Much cooler is person. I did not want to give this away.

 This is the first in a series of 7 Deadly Sins. I hand drew the body and then painted it.

 This was for an ATC swap featuring our favorite lyric by our favorite band. My favorite band is the Weepies and my favorite lyric is from "The World Spins Madly On". It goes "I thought of you and where you'd gone and the world spins madly on".

 Cryptozoology ATC. I did my second favorite cryptid the Lusca, which is a mammoth man eating, ship destroying octopus.

I also really loved this one. It was for Little Red Riding Hood, obviously. I didn't want to give it up. My partner did not seem to like it much. I was disappointed because I hand made vines with clay, hand drew and painted Little Red, and put together her basket.

Hey-oh!

I'm not sure if I'm in over my head but I'm hosting a lot of swaps at the moment, swaps YOU should sign up for. They are all fairly easy.

I'm hosting 7 swaps on the Seven Deadly Sins. I had an assignment in my photo class I really enjoyed and I think some neat ATC's would come out of this. Each swap is two weeks long, 1 ATC for 1 partner. Pretty easy and they are spaced out through the entire summer.
1. Pride atc swap (sign up deadline is May 26th!!!!!)
2. Envy atc swap
3. Gluttony atc swap
4. Lust atc swap
5. Anger atc swap
6. Greed atc swap
7. Sloth atc swap

I'm hosting a Cryptozoology ATC swap, which is going to be neat! 1 ATC for 1 partner. Basically, design an ATC based off of your favorite cryptid! Mine is the Mothman. I love him!

My last swap is not ATC related but very similar to the swap I blogged about here. I am using loreley's idea for the group I'm an officer in called Random Bits of Lovely. If anyone wants to join this swap you'll need to request to join the group. Anyway, the swap is called the Lovely Jewelry Box swap.

We'll be decorating one of those small wooden, unpainted craft jewelry boxes in a way that our partner would like. See the swap home-page for more details.


So, I'm hosting 9 pretty evenly spaced out swaps. That doesn't sound so bad...on top of the other 15 swaps I'm in. I should probably slow the swapping down a bit since I'm going to school full-time this summer and working on buying a house.

-Saristotle

Paper Stuff

I've made a lot of paper stuff lately, mostly ATC's for swaps but one is a cupcake bookmark swap. I had fun making mine, and I can't wait to get what my partner made for me. I love cupcake things!

My cupcake bookmark       

the finished bookmark
 

A-E ATC Make up swap - I'm hoping to get every letter of the alphabet in ATC's so, I have to make up the first 11 or so. My partner needs to make up A-E, so I made her "C" for cookies!

Tree of Life ATC - Depict the tree of life...I did this one..come to find out my partnet hates pink :-/ but it was senders choice so I'm still sending it.

"K" ATC Swap - Send your partner a "K" themed ATC. I did "K" for Kettle. I know it looks like a teapot but there are subtle differences....like the handle across the top, and not on the side of the kettle. IT'S A KETTLE, OKAY?!

Thanks for looking!

ATC's

I finally received my SD card reader in the mail today. I got it for $1 and free shipping on eBay. My new camera and my computer don't like each other so I can't get my pictures onto my pc without the card reader. So if you need one, head over to eBay! Now I can upload pictures wayyyyy faster.

My latest ATC's, which have all already been mailed out to my partners. THERE IS NUDITY.

Scrap ATC- Use any scraps of any materials to make 4 ATC's of any theme:


Frog & Sunset front:

Frog and Sunset back:

Butterfly and Jellyfish Front

Butterfly and Jellyfish Back:

The Letter "J" ATC. Make an ATC, any theme revolving around the letter J:

Jellyfish front:

Jellyfish back:

Naked Lady ATC, make an ATC with a naked woman on it:

Naked lady front:

Naked Lady back:

I <3 Owls ATC, make an ATC with owls on it:


Owls front:

 

















Owls Back:

Sorry so many of the pictures have a glare. I use a glaze to seal each ATC for extra protection, so there is a shine. Also, blogger is turning some of these vertical when I've uploaded them horizantly. Don't know how to fix that.

I have lots of ATC swaps coming up  but I haven't started on any, so I better go and get creating.

Swap-bot ATC's

I'm doing 3 ATC (arist trading card) swaps on swapbot. I've finished two of them and I'm really happy with the way they've turned out.

This ATC is for a swap called "Artist Trading Cards for Beginners". There is no theme for the ATC so I did my favorite theme "Sugar" more specifically "cupcakes".

Front: The background is alternating dark gray, pink, gray made with triple thick glaze and colored pigments. Then the rest is made with paper, seed beads, and polymer clay little tiny fruits (not made by me..sadly). I sealed it because I want it to be as sturdy as possible.

Back: On an ATC, the backside usually has a little bit of information. Usually you put the title, what number it is in the series (this is 1 out of 8 I'm making on the same subject), and some sort of contact information. I put my e-mail. This is called "Sucre" and means sugar in French.


These next two ATC's are for the same swap. I'm making two because I have two partners, so one for each. The swap is called "ATC Yourself". Basically, you make a self portrait of some sort on it.

Front: Two self portraits of me, one with brown hair (like I have now) and one with blond hair (like I had 19 years of my life). I like the brunette me better. The buttons on the vest are real mini buttons! I took pictures of the back as well but blogger is making it vertical rather than horizontal like it should be. I don't know why... but here it is anyway.

Back: These are both called "Saristotle" which is my handle on twitter, esty, swap-bot, nearly everything (it's aristotle with an S..combining my name with the philosopher). They make up their own series, so one says 1/2 and the other says 2/2. My e-mail is the contact info.


I have another ATC swap coming up. It's part of a 26 card series on the letters of the alphabet. It's letter "J". I'll post when I finish it.