Altered art ATC's

Right, it has been a busy little weekend...............

I found a packet of old self-adhesive cork anti-slip/surface protector thingies at the weekend, the individual pieces were small, rounded rectangle and circles. I was immediately struck with the idea of makeing myself a background stamp (or three) for my ATC art work. So I found myself an ATC sized backing plate in plastic and placed the cork "tiles" in patterns on the backing plate. The only problem was that after inking and stamping, I found That there was so much ink still in the pores on the cork that I could carry on (and on and on) Luckily I had a number of old watercoloured backgrounds which I had not yet used ( never throw anything away!).

The resulting ATC blanks were immediately put to use and I started to turn out ATC's as if I had a conveyor line in front of me. Here are some of the results:-

A more creative weekend than I have experienced for a long time. I also did another of the Africa series, of which I intend to do several. I enjoy this altered art technique and will be trying to cultivate this more rough and ready effect.

It's back to reality now, Still trying out too many ideas and techniques without honing my skills. I need to take a much more considered attitude to learning the new approach to art. I have virtually given up on real painting which is a shame. Bot hopefully when I have had my fill of these new toys I will return. See you all.