I had such a great time playing with the watercolors and making the mermaids for these Mermaid ATC Swap cards for the Art Chix Studio Mermaids and cats swap.  My cards originally started out monochromatic but soon I started adding accent and complimentary colors so they all ended up with a little blue and green on each card but with some more purple, orange or red. If you want to see my background demo check out my earlier post HERE.

It’s June already and I’m trying to play catch up with all of my picture taking and blog posts. For this month I wanted to share 2 new cards I made with little hand stamped tags. The first is a blue notecard with my handmade paper and a cute little moth eco shape from Art Chix that I covered in cotton fabric. The second card “Love Grows”  is a sweet baby girl card with vintage pink ribbon and a little baby egg hatching also from Art Chix.

Please check out my Etsy Pinkdilla Shop for some of the new items as well as mermaids for summer! I will be posting new items every few days so keep an eye out for the newest stuff here or on my Pinkdilla Facebook page.

I have been playing around with my watercolors for the upcoming Mermaid ATC Swap by ARt Chix Studio for next month. I used a wet on dry technique for the backgrounds and then used Claudine Hellmuth’s Studio Medium in Glossy to adhere the vintage papers and Transparencies.  I love this medium under transparencies and I’m so glad I found it! I just wanted to show the backgrounds before they get decorated and covered up. That’s the thing about backgrounds, you usually don’t get to see the whole thing once it is finished.

I’m always so inspired by the Swaps hosted by Collage Stuff every month! Especially receiving the pretty ATCs from other artists around the USA. The ATC Swap theme for May is Time. For this challenge I wanted to create a visual message that conveyed something that takes time, and not just time passing on a clock, but a moment in time. My cards are ” Time to Smile”, “Time to Change” and “Time to Grow”.  I used watercolor paints as the background for the Smile card, the Grow card is a gel medium and Pearl Ex pigments, the Time card is a simple dry brush of Acrylics. I only used Claudine Hellmuth’s Studio gloss Medium as my adhesive. It was perfect behind the Art Chix Studio transparencies and completely disappeared behind it!  I hope you like them, I definitely had a blast making these!