Eiffel Tower Stamped ATCs

Time for an interruption of all the garden views, specially as today we have an enormous and very frightening thunderstorm overhead, which meant I did not use the computer all day and also did not venture out. Instead I concentrated on art and finished making my ATCs for the French Stamped ATC Swap on the Marie Antoinette Art Group. This is a great group with really marvelous ATCs coming back from all the swaps I have participated in there so far, and of course j'adore Marie!

We had to use a French themed stamp as the main feature of our ATCs. I started by making a fabric/collage background on calico (that's muslin, if you're in The States). I stamped the calico (muslin) background before making the collage, using blue Versacraft inkpad and making sure I heatset the stamping thoroughly!! To the collage I then added French vintage text and images as well as paper napkins with a French theme. I used pink and yellow Dye-na-Flow paint to add extra colour as these are the colours that are very Marie Antoinettish! I also added pink sparkle.

Once the collage was dry I cut ATC-sized pieces, layered them with pink felt, added a yellow paper backing and sewed on a transparency on top to which I had stamped the Eiffel Tower image with blue Staz-On ink. I finished the edges of the cards which are all more or less the same (variations in the background) by zigzag stitching and also added a Paris charm.