| All these Africa ATC's start off with an African face made from Paper Clay and using an After Midnight face mold. I love working with paper clay. It has such a beautifully smooth texture and feel to it. Wonderfully pliable and malleable. Mixing pigment powders into it creates infinite possibilities. Or when dry, painting it with Krylon leafing pens or markers or whatever. I used my Cuttlebug and Sizzlets alphabet die for the letters. Most of the faces were mounted onto covered mat board squares. Most were covered with a white tissue paper which had absorbed all the left over spray paints from a recent CBH Challenge project. It was a wonderfully colorful background. |
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ID: Africa #1 (unavailable) |
Both of these ATC's use a background I made for the Halloween ATC's. I used Golden's Tar Gel mixed with gold acrylic paint on black cardstock. I mounted the black onto gold metallic cardstock. Punched out the letters from gold metallic paper. Both faces were painted with Krylon Gold leafing pen after they were dry. The face #3 ws painted with black first then with the gold. The square on Africa#1 face was covered with a black pearlized leatherette type paper. The face #3 used the gold metallic paper. I also added some feathers on #3 |
ID: Africa #3 (unavailable) |
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ID: Africa #4 (unavailable) |
The yellowish background for the next two is from my slurry mix, paper making on textured plates. Both are mounted to green cardstock. Rubber stamped the "Africa" (Rusty Pickle Alphabet) with black permanent ink. Same background paper for both the squares. The face in #4 is the Luminarte mixed clay.
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ID: Africa Detail #4 |
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ID: Africa #6 (unavailable) |
Africa Face #6 was white then painted with gel pens, also added a feather. The word "Africa" punched from the same green spray background as #2 below.
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ID: Africa #2 (unavailable) |
ID: Africa #7 (unavailable) |
ID: Africa Detail #7 |
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Africa #2 uses some of the CBH Challenge spray background I made, with greens. I also covered the square with the White Tissue background paper mentioned above. Rubber stamped the giraffe (Pink Cat Studios) and the word "Africa" (Rusty Pickle alphabet set) with Permanent black ink, added the feather. The face was made with Luminarte powders mixed in to the paper clay (Jasper red & Nutmeg). Mounted to pael yellow cardstock. |
The background for this one, I used molding paste and smeared it on the paper, when dry, lay washes of watercolor. Let that dry. The letter "a" is the negative punched out letter from my Sizzix alphabet set. It was punched from Kleenex tissue paper used to clean up my Twinkles H2o brush, then glued to a piece of cardstock. The letters are the same copper from above. The gorilla (pink cat studios) rubber stamped with permanent black ink. Mounted to dark brown cardstock |
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ID: Africa #5 (unavailable) |
With all the scraps I was accumulating on my desk from cutting corners for wrapping the squares and trimming down the backgrounds from these and the Valentines ATC's, I decided to make backgrounds from the waste. Africa #5 uses it in a woven background. The letters are Lumiere copper painted on cardstock then punched out. The face is also painted with the copper when dry a Brilliance dew drop "Midnight Black" stamp pad brushed over it. The square covered with dirty tissue paper from the background clean up. Mounted to black cardstock then to brown cardstock.
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ID: Africa Detail #5 |
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ID: Africa #8 (unavailable) |
The background for this one uses all the little triangular corners cut away from wrapping the squares. I used podgey as a glue. Same copper face as above. "Africa" letters punched from various scraps. Zebra (Pink Cat Studios) rubber stamped with permanent black ink. Mounted to canary yellow cardstock then to dark brown cardstock. (image looks distorted because of 3D surface of face not flat on scanner)
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ID: Africa Detail #8 |
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