Friday, July 29, 2011

Button Card ATC's

Here is a project I created using Sewing Notions stamps from Oxford Impressions. I made a box to hold a set of ATC's all based around the button card stamp in the set.

To make each ATC I started with a base covered with vintage French book text, added my stamped collage, then added buttons for a dimensional accent. I had a lot of fun combining the individual stamps into collages using layered masking. You have to think backwards though - start with your foreground image, then mask it with a post-it note cut to size and stamp your next image making that one look to be more in the background, and finally stamp the button card with all the other stamped images masked. You really can create a variety of collages with that simple technique. Here are the individual ATC's:




11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Impeccable stamping and beautiful colour choice for those images.
Lynne x

Gerri Herbst said...

Oh my this is stunning. It is so beautiful. Adore the vintage colors and tiny buttons! take care, gerri

Ana Márquez said...

I love the buttons, so, I love those wonderful cards :-) Regards!

Anonymous said...

Wow Penny, these are so pretty!

trisha too said...

Penny, these are SO cute!!

:)

Createology said...

Your ATCs are a modern vintage treasure. Love how they all look. Sunshine Summer Smiles...

Jeany said...

Hi penny, love this Idea of you, it looks so good. Love it ☺
have a great weekend, love janine

Sherry said...

Your set of ATCs are gorgeous! Love that stamp set. Whenever I've tried the layered stamp look, I usually get it wrong first time! Thanks for the tip.

Ali Manning said...

This is breathtaking, Penny! I love anything to do with sewing notions.

- - Sheryl - - said...

love vintage - fabulous!

2amscrapper said...

These are really pretty stamps.