ALTERED ART AND A LOAD OF TAT: Twas the night before Christmas......

Friday, 24 December 2010

Twas the night before Christmas......

Well I bet all the chickens and turkeys up and down the land are keeping very quiet tonight..... Naturally our chooks are very safe, they are just being good in the hope that Father Christmas will bring them a stocking full of Mealworms....... they wont be disappointed!

I used my metal letter punches to stamp out the wording and had a glorious half hour with my hammer, hitting the letters and listening to 'Twas the night before Christmas' by my favourite Louis Satchmo Armstrong
I then covered the rest of the 'tag' with Terra and stamped into it using the AS Sequin Waste stamp - waited for it to dry and then painted over it with Claudines Paints, blended and once dry swiped over with Barn Door Distress ink, just to pick up the highlights.

A friend Kathy sent me these cute Chicken buttons a while ago, I just gave them some santa hats!
All together now...... On The Third Day of Christmas, My True Love Sent To Me......

My treat today is....... I don't know! Matt is treating us all to something. I usually cook the full meal on Christmas Eve, but the family for one reason or another are in different directions this Christmas, so its a quiet day for us and Matt is cooking........ so if you don't see me again, you will know why!

So that just leaves me to wish you all a VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS and thank you to Jennie and Hels for letting me join in with the Artistic Stamper Creative Team, I have had a ball xx

I'll see you after Christmas with my final ASCT project

8 comments:

Debs24 December 2010 at 04:48
Happy Christmas Nicks
Lurves the tag, it's so funky and apt!
Gosh you won't know what to do with yourself today! lol
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Helen24 December 2010 at 07:31
Gorgeous tag, love the chickens!
It's been great seeing your art on the ASCT.
Happy Christmas.
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Dee24 December 2010 at 08:35
happy christmas Nicks
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Katherine24 December 2010 at 08:58
Aww that is soooooooooo sweet!
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thekathrynwheel24 December 2010 at 11:28
Ooh a gorgeous tag :-)
A very happy Christmas to you and your chooks! x
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Annie24 December 2010 at 11:34
Love the tag. I've written my own version of that poem on my blog today :-)
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
A x
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Minxy24 December 2010 at 16:22
Another awesome piece of art.
Happy Christmas Nicks Hope you and your family have a lovely day x
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Viv24 December 2010 at 17:30
Have a chick chick chick chick chickeny Christmas!! x
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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).