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Make your own ATC stencils.

I have just got into making ATCs and after reading the Artist Trading workshop book, I decided to make my own stencils.

I painted the ATC with a base colour.

I used punches with acetate to make my own stencils, one punch with hearts, the other was punched with a fiskars ribbon punch border and then I cut holes along one side with a cropodile to resemble note pad paper.

I used the stencils with darker acrylic paint.

I cut out some images from a magazine and stuck them all together.

The words were added with strips from the magazine, stamped with stazon. Next time you are throwing magazines out have a look through the pictures first. You never know what you might create.

Debbie x

Posted at 07:10 AM in Altered art, ATCs | Permalink

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Your ATC is beautiful Debbie. Thanks for the tips on creating your own backgrounds. I have some acetate packaging ready for the bin and I'm now going to create my own stencils.

Posted by: Lynne V | April 06, 2010 at 09:28 AM