ALTERED ART AND A LOAD OF TAT: Yey!!! reached a century

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Yey!!! reached a century

100 followers... bless each and everyone of you!
I was just about to offer some candy to the 100th person to become a follower and then up popped Lululiz so I have offered her some 'ole tat' Have a look at her blog, she has some fabbo stuff.

Anyway, what's been occurring today.. started off playing with my sewing machine and then quickly moved onto my soldering iron. My attention span is not long! I haven't played with solder for a while, and was pleased that I haven't lost my touch but I can't show you just yet what I was doing.

But then the postie came with some beautifully packaged goodies from The Altered Element one of my favourite online shops, and amongst other things was some Beeswax.. I haven't used this for a while, and I still don't quite get it, but I still like it (does that make any sense??) Anyway, I made another page for my journal using the wax, and combined it with this weeks Tuesday Taggers challenge an altered jigsaw bit.

You can't really see the die cut Jigsaw frame but its there.. and there will be some journaling on the back of the page, but its about us all being a part of many different jigsaws and how things would be so very different if we weren't there to complete it, think it all stems from a very poignant moment at my brothers memorial service.

I am enjoying this Journaling lark..... I wonder how many of my favourite techniques I can use in it??

Off to bed now... up early.... housework/chores to do...

then more creating to do and OWOH hopping to do

oh what a 'to do'

6 comments:

TonyaA28 January 2010 at 03:18
Great eye catching pieces!
Blessings, peace, and love!
Tonya
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Unknown28 January 2010 at 09:19
Nicks this is gorgeous, congratulations on your 100 followers....thank you for sharing your project with us at Tuesday Taggers this week. Hugs Avril xxx
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Karen28 January 2010 at 12:02
This is amazing! You are really imspirational! X
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Unknown28 January 2010 at 15:58
Brilliant Nicks - love the journal page - Im fascinated with the beeswax thing but not sure yet how to use if but it does smell so calming when it melts! Soldering - sounds far too complex to me. Thanks for the comments on my blog - I find your "tat" very inspirational and treasure the few atcs I have from your docraft trading days. Thanks for playing along with TT this week x Janet
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PatR28 January 2010 at 20:49
Fabulous creation and thanks for joining TT this week.
Pat xx
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Michelle1 February 2010 at 21:20
Oh wow Nicks, amazing work lately, so very arty and I just love your jigsaw piece. Thanks so much for joining us this week, hope to see you again soon at TT

x Michelle
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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.
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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).