Week 13 of Bernie Berlin's ATC workshops

So now we have come almost to the end of the book.
The next 3 weeks we can choose from some of the so-called 'ultra-cards' in the book.
It can be pen-drawn, diptich or triptich (2 or 3 connected atc's), folded, children atc's or digital.
I made this week diptich, so a 2-connected serie, I used the painted papertowel technique out of the beginning of the book for the background.

Working with friendly plastic

This week in Bernie Berlin's book friendly plastic is the basic for the atc we are working on.
It is not my favourite material. The plastic crawls when cooling and it is hard to keep it nice flat.
Also stamping in/on it didn't work for me :-((
But I do like the result though.......pushed some charms into one and eyelets in the other.

Working with mica

This time we are working with mica. I made the atc totally see-through with the mica, but you can also use just a piece of it on an atc.
In between the 2 pieces mica I placed a transfer of a woman and some dried flowers.
The mica itself I coloured with alcohol ink.

Working with metal tape

The workshops with BB's book, which still is great to do, keep going on. Yet another 8 weeks I believe.....
This week some different ways using Metal Tape.
First: putting alcohol ink on a piece of tape, then tearing it in small pieces and brayer/flatten them on an atc. Finish it with a picture and charms/embellishments.



Second: stamp on the tape, make the lines deeper with your stylus tool/embossingpen. Then rub black paint in it and smear it off again. I finished this one with punched out clovers of metal tape, coloured with alcohol ink.

another week with Bernie's workshops

this time sewing is the theme.
First lesson is hand-sewing. I used a fabric with zebra/safariprint, stitched a geltransfer (on muslin) on it and finished with a beadbracelet around the transfer.



Second lesson is using the sewingmachine, with 2 different techniques.
1. Basic is fabric ( I used part of old jeans ), then sewing a paper picture on top and finishing with handstitching.



2. Basic is paper. Sewing a page of an old book, part of a printed photo and a transparancy together on your machine. I placed the (rubberstamped) transparancy in a way so it looks as if the girl on the photo has a mustache :-))

Week 8 with Bernie Berlin's workshops

This week we are making backgrounds with images on fabric and fibers.
1: no-sew fabric.
Draw, stamp of copy an image (black&white) on fabric (muslin) and color it with fabricmarkers, gelpens or any other item what works for you. Then iron it with fusible webbing (vlieseline) on a piece of felt.
I stamped the image of the woman and the hearts on a piece of cottonfabric and coloured it with Le Plume inkpens.


2. fused fibers.
The point is to -using fusible webbing (vlieseline)- get the fibers stuck on the backgroundpaper, then put some embossing powder over it and with another piece of fusible webbing heat it with your iron.
It makes a wonderful structure, almost a shame to put a picture over it.

Dimensional resin

Here it is then, the last atc from Bernie Berlin's workshops in week 7, dimensional resin. As I do not have a melting pot, I had to find another way of getting the result. So I made (like in the glass-like resin workshop) lots of UTEE layers, about 10! While heating the last layer I placed the charms and gems in the warm utee and then poured Ranger Glossy Accents over it and let dry. After it had dried I stamped the man&woman and the hearts on the back.

week 7 of Bernie Berlin's workshop book

after a break last week, we are throwing ourselves in the workshops again:-))
This time the workshops will be:
1. resin fresco.
2. glass-like resin.
3. dimensional resin.
The last one will give some problems, because we have to use a melting pot and I do not have one and it is too expensive to just purchase one only for this workshop.
Well, the first 2 I finished , so will show these now.

Another week with workshops from Bernie Berlin's book

This week we will be doing 1. Emboss-Resist and 2. Embossing Scraps (which is fun to do!!).
Kind of like serendipity, what I like very much, but then as extra dimension the embossing of the glued edges of the scraps.
I will show you a few a my samples for this week.

Second workshop from week 5

this time we are working with transfers, what gave me some problems.
When I discovered the best was to use 'fresh' printed images, already lots of photo's had been thrown away:-((
But......finally it worked! The pos/neg one was transfered with water and glued on painted babywipe.

The other 2 were actually bright coloured images, had not my printer gone low on blue ink, so they all came out pink!!
'Live your passion' is transfered with water on paper, 'Enchanted heart' is transfered with gel medium on fabric.

the 5th week following Bernie Berlin's workshops

this week we had to play with foam, either pre-cut or selfmade from a larger piece.
I used pre-cut pieces of animals (cow, pig, sheep) with a few smaller figures, glued on paper, covered with gesso, then painted over it and finally stamped over the intire atc.
I'll show 2 of the atc's I made with this technique.

Another week of Bernie Berlin trials

This week we will make a background with papers of the phonebook, I found a page and picture that match quite nicely (SAILING).
Second one is using string, several times wrapped around you card or use it in any other way you like....I used a photo from National Geographic, wrapped the rope around the tree on the left and above&beneath the ropeclimber on the right.
For the 2nd one I took a page from a comicbook, used the string to hang the cookingpot.
Third assignment was making a background with painted tissuepaper, that was lots of fun and in the still wet tissue you can push lots of things, like eyelets etc, I used some bling-bling:-)). The picture didn't need to be glued either, stuck right into the wet tissue!
For the 2nd I used beads and a small mirror for embellishment and a nice photo from a catcalendar.

Polished atc's from the workshop this week

And here are the polished atc's with the right glue, on the second I smeared only a few branches of the trees and the beak of the bird (eating a berry) with the glue (for the resist), on the other I used the glue on the face and part of the arm of the lady and on the violin'stick' . Then I 'created' her hair with some oilpastels.

Part 3 of this weeks Bernie Berlin's workshop

The 3rd workshop this week was to work with the chromepolisher NevrDull, I wasn't able to buy it here, but searching through my cleaning stuff I found a polisher for synthetic material that worked in the same way. Funny, this jar was in my kitchencupboard, unused, for over 4 years and I often thought to throw it away as I had no use for it in my new home, but now I am only too glad I kept it......

The first tries were not to my satisfaction, but that was because I used the wrong type of glue, when I found the right glue, it worked like a charm:-))

I will show you first the 'failed' atc's.

Another altered magazine photo

Here is another altered magazine photo.

Although I am sure I cannot draw, this was fun to do, I can assure you :-)))

Another week with Bernie Berlin's ATC book

I only did lesson 1 and 2 of the 3rd week just now, the last one will follow, don't worry :-)

I wasn't able to get the necessary supplies for the last part of this weeks workshop.

But I will try to get them this week, if not, I will use my sister's stuff when I visit her next weekend!!

First photo is a collage of magazine picures.

Next one is a magazine photo, altered with gesso and acrylic paint.
Now this was fun to do!!!

Some more atc's from week 2

Here are some more atc's I made with the workshops from week 2.

Life:

a man standing in the ocean fishing for a living....

I used gauze for the 1st stencil layer, then I punched out the fish a few times on printerpaper and used the punched holes as stencil. Stamped the rain over it .

Thoughts: background with inky layers.

Workshops week 2 Bernie Berlin's book

This week we will be following the workhops:

1. Leafing Pen Resist (atc with the Asian Couple)

2. Inky Layers (atc SchoolDays)

3. Stencils (atc African Sunset)

All 3 were worth while trying, the last layer on the 2nd was with iridescent ink, what gives it a shiny, sparkling result what you cannot clearly see on the scan.

My craftsheet & my fingers were nice and shiny too afterwards :-)

The 2nd layer on the stencil one was done using gauze and then dipping acrylic paint (but you can use an inkpad as well I guess) with a sponge on it.

Some more atc's from BB's workshop

Here are some more atc's with a background of watercolors on babywipes!

This will be a creative summer I think:-))

Bernie Berlin's ATC Workshop book

I am at the moment following the lessons in Bernie Berlin's book ArtistTradingCard workshops.

It is happening on A.R.T. yahoogroup.

This week the first 3 workshops were due.

1. Intuitive watercolor.

2. Watercolors on babywipe.

3. Paint on paper towel with metallic looking paint.

Above you see my creations.........