ALTERED ART AND A LOAD OF TAT: Happy New Year!

Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Happy New Year!

I'm a bit early I know but today is my last stint on The Artistic Stamper Blog and my project involves my new years resolutions ............... Hop over there to read the whole story, but first let me take this opportunity to wish all my lovely visitors a very very Happy and even more a Very Creative New Year!!

Be sure to Hop back here in the New Year, because DD George and I will be Wrecking!!!

Look what FC left in our Stockings -

Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith

he also left one in Debs' Stocking, so hopefully she will be Wrecking as well!

6 comments:

Jennie -The Artistic Stamper28 December 2010 at 08:19
Love the journalling, and thank you for being our artist of the month :)) It has been a pleasure, and strangely enough I gave the wreck this journal to my DD yesterday.. ( really wanted to keep it for myself..lol) and she gave me a new journal! nothing stranger than mothers and daughters!! lol
Happy New Year!
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Katherine28 December 2010 at 09:38
Love it. I'm with you on the offal! Lol.
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Unknown28 December 2010 at 09:52
happy new year to you as well - look forward to the wrecking lol

hugs
judie xx
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Helen29 December 2010 at 14:12
I mean to wreck my copy this year too - if I could find where I put it....
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Debs29 December 2010 at 17:35
I don't think you have much hope with No 5! lol
Cheers Nicks - I lurves ya forever for this - how cool is that!! I am wrecking already! xxx
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Debs1 January 2011 at 16:12
I hope the cover won't be quite so pristine when you next post your wreckings! lol
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Art should be shared....

But I have found someone totally copying some of my stuff (why they would want to heaven knows) and claiming it as their own inspiration... so while I find it a complete honour for people to gain a little inspiration from my tat, please be honest.
We all get ideas from other artists, thats how the art world flourishes, but please note that all artwork, photos and text on this blog are mine. I am more than happy for you to take inspiration from my work, but please do not attempt to copy or reproduce it without crediting the original idea to me.
Thank you

CRAFTY LIKES AND DISLIKES

CRAFTY LOVES
UTEE... love it and use it in large quantities
Metal..
Friendly plastic
Shrink plastic
Paint and ink in any shape or form
My Crop-o-dile
odd bits and pieces
Paperarsty stamps
Brilliance inks
Tim Holtz (aka god)
Distress Inks
Debbie Moore's Metal magic
Perfect Medium
Glossy Accents
Debbie Moore's Enamel embossing powder

CRAFTY DISLIKES
while i think there is a place for most things at some time or other...I do dislike peel-offs with 99% of my being, but and this is a BIG but there is the odd and very odd occasion that they can be used without being too offensive (boy that hurt, it was almost an admission that i have used them)
Book-a-trix... sorry but they do look like memorial stones and nothing anybody says will convince me otherwise.
Decoupage..... I am sure the Victorians are turning in their graves
Flowersoft... a friend summed this up perfectly...Devils Dandruff
People who say/think ATC's are cardtoppers.... thats Dawn Bibby off my christmas card list
Cute
Penny Black Stamps
Stick and Stamp pad and anything which is sold and just does not do the job!!
Dufex
Tilda stamps..... why half a face??

WHAT ARE ATC'S??? Artist Trading Cards

Miniature works of art created on cards have been around for centuries, largely used as business cards. The modern-day concept of ATCs was conceptualized by artist M.vanci stirnrmenn in 1996, an idea born of older sports themed trading cards, and became a movement that denounced the tradition of critiquing and appraising art, and embraced the process of one artist connecting with another and exchanging styles and techniques.
ATC are art collectables but the one rule that makes an ATC derive from their origins: the dimensions of the ATC must be 2.5"x3.5", or 64x89mm.
To this rule are appended a couple of conventions. First, an ATC mustn't be sold, only exchanged, as the whole essence of these tiny works of art is about artists meeting in person, by correspondence, online etc and exchanging their works, thus getting exposed to and experiencing many personal styles and techniques. Second, on the back of each ATC the artist writes part or all of the following information: name, contact information, title of the ATC and number (i.e. if it's a one off original or part of a series).