Here's the story....

This month our challenge is 'recycled' ~ not my most fave theme I must admit... until I got ill and bought a box of tissues! lol I knew as soon as I saw the pull off top of these that it would be ideal for altering. 

 it's an altered ATC pocket. Just the right size for an atc after sealing up with some staples

 ATC and pocket :-)

 and finally.... the ATC (which is also made using a cereal box as the base

I've used 

Spritzers

Archival ink

white pen

paperbag studios stamp

lost cost party hat stamps

catslife press word stamp

If you'd like to join in with our challenge... check out the deets here 

TFL

Mandy x

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ATC's a la ALICE

Here are some simple ATC's using the Alice set from Artistic Outpost. I stamped the 2 large stamps onto card, unfortunately they aren't quite ATC size so I cut a couple of ATC's out of white card and inked the edges in black ink.  The stamped images are coloured with watercolours.

TFL
Mandy
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Batty about Halloween

Here's my third and final Spider Girl ATC for this months Spooky challenge theme, totally inspired by the Dogs Trust slogan, ' A dog is for life, not just Christmas '. For this ATC I stepped away from the typical halloween colours and went for one of my favourite colour combinations, pink and turquoise. I made it using the same template as the other atc's this month and and hand drew the bat.
I do hope you like it, thanks for looking.

Wishing you a happy day, Sam xxx

Trick or Trick?

Just lately I have fallen in love with ATC's all over again and just can't stop making them. Here's another featuring Spider Girl again, this time I've given her a pointy witches hat, simply cut out of black card and the stars stamped with white staz on. It's a distress ink background with some orange paint squished through a template, a shrink plastic star and the ground is another distress inked bit of paper which I embossed. It's very nice to stroke with lots of textures!. I couldn't resist giving her some green and yellow stripey socks.

Thanks for looking, wishing you a happy day, Sam xxx

Here's what I used:

Stampotique: Spider Girl and Jo's Star

Lost Coast Designs: Angel in Disguise (for the hat stars)

Distress Inks: Dusty Concorde and Brushed Corduroy

Crafters Workshop Template: Cherry Blossom

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint: Altered Orange

Me Wicked?

Fitting in with this months challenge theme I chose to make a spooky'ish ATC, I've been challenging myself lately to get more layers in to my makes, this is where the Crafters Workshop templates come in so handy, a quick swipe of modelling paste of paint and you have effortlessly added loads of detail and another layer. I thought Spider Girl would be perfect for this theme and here she is dangling a spider, I can't decide if she's teasing it by dangling it over a big drop or is getting ready to chase someone with it, hope it's not me as I REALLY don't like things with 8 legs!

Wishing you a happy day, Sam xxx

Don't forget to enter the challenge for a chance to win £15 to spend at Happy Daze, with free P&P!!! Wicked!!

Chunky ATC by Guest Designer Martina Fuchs

For her 2nd Design team piece to share with us this month Martina has altered one of the Wooden ATC Blocks available from the Shop.

It has been altered using Glassine Stash Advantus, Idea-ology pieces including : Time pieces, Mini Gear, Game spinner and Clock keys.

Idea-ology Box corners have been added to the top and Game Pieces have been used on the base for feet.

List of items Martina used from the shop

Glassine Stash Advantus
Wooden ATC Block
Tim Holtz Idea-ology : Time Pieces, Game spinners, Mini gears, Clock Keys, Game Pieces, box Corners.
Ranger Crackle Accents

This month's challenge theme is Steampunk : Remember to use at least one item that is available from the Happy Daze shop to be eligible for the prize draw to win a £15.00 voucher to spend in the shop. The winner will be announced on the 2nd of October.  Check out this blog post for details

' Circle of Life ' an ATC by Annette Goatley

The focus this month is on The Olympic Rings, actually anything with Circles works for us here at Happy Daze.  It got me thinking about the Circle of Life, not the song from The Lion King although thats a fab song but the actual journey of life from beginning to the end.

 Products used:  Distress Inks, Stickles, Paint Dabber and a Bottle Top.   Stamps  by  Teesha Moore and Scrolls Work.

We are so lucky that we can express ourselves through the crafting/art medium which reveals many layers of our character.  Oooh am getting a bit deep here, but believe me if I was to explain all my reasons for creating this ATC you would drop off to sleep..............lol

Anyways we want to see how you  use circles in your projects, whether its journal pages, circle shaped cards etc, as long as theres a circle in it you have a chance to win a £15 voucher.

Wishing you a very Happy Sunday and take care of yourselves, hugs Annette x

We're off to see the Wizard

This week I'm paying a visit to Oz .... Wizard of Oz is one of my fave films, so just had to have a play with this set from Artistic Outpost featuring the characters.
I've made a set of 3 ATC's.... to get the bright yellow background I used Distress Stain in Mustard Seed. Wonderful yellow to represent the yellow brick road, I overstamped that with a grey Jenni Bowlin paint dabber and some Tim Holtz bitty stamps.

 Thanks for looking
Mandy ♥