Tea Bag Wisdom

 For ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) anything is game. So *of course* I collect stuff that I think I can use on these small 2.5" by 3.5" gems. Tea bags or tea bag envelopes have text and peppy saying these days. Of course I have some of them put by.

I started the background with acrylics, first by swiping with a credit card, then through a stencil. The tea bag wisdom really dictated the imagery.

Fusspilz

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Entering this into:

ATC around the World: #103 Bunt / Colorful

The Outlawz Paper à la Mode Challenge: July Challenge / not a greeting card 

Silpputehdas ATC Challenge: Pitipäs sattua

A collection of fish

 This set of ATC cards was created using a cereal box as substrate, in fact you can still see a bit of the bar code behind one fish.  I lightly sanded the background so it takes color better. 

 

After painting the background with acrylics I for the fish and applied different colors. Then I removed the stencil and stamped the fish with black ink and heat embossed them with Psychedelic transparent emboss powder.

It makes the fish glitter and glimmer. Lastly I applied "waves" through a (flower!) stencil, stamped a bit of background noise and applied the collector numbers.

Entering this into challenges that inspired me:

ATC around the world: Im/am Meer

Make my Monday: On water

Creative Artist Mixed Media. #94 

The Outlawz Paper Challenge: He's some guy 

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Pick a number

 

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