ATC Eyes. Great for ATC swaps. Jason Anesbury.

Welcome to my blog post for July 2024.
 I used an amazing ATC cuttable made and designed by  Sally. 
All I had to do with these amazing ATCs was cut them out, I then added gauze on the base of the ATC for dimension and taped down the Cuttable. I added a black inked edge for effect. 

 
Packed and ready to send off to my ATC swap. If you have a theme you would like as an ATC challenge please email sales@memorymaze.com

I used the following Memory Maze product. click on this link to go to the website

ATC eyes, cat . Min buy 5, MemoryMaze

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my blog post for July 2024 Jason Anesbury.

Steampunk ATC cards

 Just for something different I have done 9 ATC cards for a swap. Using Memory Maze stencils Grunge 2 ,Cogs & Circles. Memory Maze chipboard Miniature cogs. Bee Arty Stamps Time flies stamp. I covered the chipboard with Art Alchemy Wax in Firebird. 

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Enjoy

NEW Artist Trading Coins from Memory Maze Lasercuts

Hello crafty friends, have you seen the latest trend of Artist Trading Coins, or ATCs as they are affectionately referred to? We have seen Artist Trading Cards and now coins are hitting the market. They are meant to be little pieces of artwork that you can trade with other artists. So much fun to work in miniature!

With a set of blank coins measuring 2.5 inches and 9 other new designs, we couldn't wait to share these with you! Let's take a look...

You would have to agree that those little chihuahuas and tropical themes are divine. The chipboard pieces can be painted, inked, embossed or left raw.

Perfect as an embellishment for those boy themed projects, these ATCs can be layered on top of each other and used on your scrapbook layouts as the perfect page addition.

This cat design is so cute and who cant go past a Christmas design.....perfect for adding to the front of a Christmas card or pocket page layout Documenting December. There is also a set of blank coins available at the online Memory Maze store.

Stay tuned for some upcoming projects from the design team show casing various ways to use these new Artist Trading Coins. Memory Maze also has many other ATC designs for every need - ATC sized frames, tags and more. The range can be found online at www.memorymaze.com.au

If you are interested in any of the Memory Maze products, be sure to contact your local craft store or Memory Maze for your local stockist where we can place our local sales reps in contact with them.

Steampunk ATC's, by Tania

Hello everyone. It's my pleasure to be back again with another post for you, using some cool chipboard cogs and more!! I made some ATC's this time, and I really had fun with these!!!

I used Distress Oxide inks to make my backgrounds. Love these!!! I started with an A5 piece of white card, and used the cogs stencil to add some white Distress Paint to the white card. (The white Distress Paint acts as a resist for my next layer.) I applied Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain Distress Oxide ink, with a blending tool and sprayed with water several times for the Oxidization effect.)

You can see the 1st layer of white paint has resisted the brown inks.

After several layers of Distress Oxide inks in a few different colours, I used the Wire stencil in reverse, (Spray the stencil and stamp it onto the card, instead of spraying through it), with some Black Dylusions Spray ink for an added layer of interest.

I cut down my background sheet into 3 pieces. The official size of an ATC, (Artist Trading Card), is 2.5" x 3.5", so I cut 3 pieces of black card stock, this size to use as a mat for each ATC. 

Before attatching to the mats, I did some stamping onto the cards, with some arrows, cogs and clocks I had in my stash. Using a paint brush and watered down , white paint, I then flicked some paint drops on there too!

The next step was to colour all my chipboard pieces. For this I used black Distress Paint for the Bowler hat, moustache & cogs chipboard.

And Metallic Distress Stains for the remaining cogs from the bike, cogs, clock and moustache set.

Then it was just a matter of arranging everything in clusters on each card, adding some metal embellishments, thread and black gemstones. 

To make them complete, I found some cool quote stamps and embossed them in black, on white card!!!

Here's some more pics, I hope I've inspired you to give these little ATC's a go. The possibilities are endless with the amazing array of chipboard pieces from Memory Maze!!!