STAMPAWAY CONVENTION & Pink Saturday & Passion Parade

Happy Pink Saturday to everyone, if you haven't found my blog through Beverly's Pink Saturday Blog Hop, please go visit all the others via her blog at: www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com or take a look at Passion Parade over at http://myricandreasen.blogspot.com

Today is the annual STAMPAWAY CONVENTION here in Cincinnati, Ohio at the newly remodeled an expanded Sharonville Convention Center!!!  I've been anxiously awaiting this day since I missed it last year because we were moving.  I am prepared with my stash of ATC's to trade with all the others waiting for the doors to open at 9am; my youngest, Kerri will be trading her ATC's as well!!!

This is one of the ATCs I've made quite a few of that I will be trading.  I used a white gem cardstock for the background, stamped the lovely face using ColorBox brown ink and applied Tim Holtz distressing embossing powder in dusty concord to her.  Heated it up and once it dried and cooled scraped away the fine particles for the "distress" look.  Used Tim Holtz tissue tape on the right side and bottom an I inked those to "age" it with ColorBox chestnut roan ink.  Next I stamped a Michael's $1.00 spot stamp: typewrite with the words "write your own story" using StazOn jet black. I stamped just the typewriter image again, separately on card stock an cut it out and then used pop dots to adhere over original stamped image. (I love giving my cards dimension, depth) I added a touch of ColorBox rouge to her lips, the two metal brads in the corners and finished off with inking the edges all the way around with the StazOn jet black again.  Im pleased with the final result and hope others will be too.

Very excited because Tim Holtz will be here demonstrating all day long - the man is so charismatic and amazingly talented - so inspiring!!  Wish my step-mom could be here too, but she is vacationing, lucky her, or maybe not so luck since she's missing this FUN convention - ha ha.

Off to create more ATC's, hope everyone has a Fun Pink and Creative Weekend!!

TIME FOR ATC'S ON PINK SATURDAY ...

For this week's PINK Saturday I decided to share some ATC's I made and have since traded.  These were all one of a kind ATC's - some days I regret noth having made doubles so I could have each for my own collection, instead I must be content with the photos.

The first ATC has a multi colored background from scrapbook paper - hues of PINK, then images of Marie Antoinette, The L'arc de triumphe, block letters, gems, and prima flowers

"COUTURE" atc I used a notecard for the background that had the word couture on it - there is the slightest of very pale pink shading -  the mannequin is a stamped image, letters cut from a magazine, brads and prima flowers in shades of pink

Geisha ATC has PINK and red with a background cut from a magazine, along with images cut from magazines, ribbon, brads, actual Japanese coins and a fabric brad with asian motif

The look on her face caught my attention immediately and when I saw the word "unique" on the tag I knew I had a "match"...background is cut from a calendar with a swirling PINKS, crystal and PINK gemstones, several images from Graphic 45 line.

scrapbook paper background of a post card, plastic overlay with dark pink florish design, rubber stamped clock, pearls, images from Graphic 45 with PINK tones

another scrapbook paper post card with pink tone for background, pink card stock, images from Graphic 45, metal key

old stationary with a multitude of mag images applied, inked in vintage pink, clear sticker, brad, photo

cardstock inked in pale pink, embossed eiffel tower rubberstamp image, Graphic 45 imags, rubber stamp face image - chalked with pinks, embossed clock rubber stamp image, prima flower, brads, gems

Last week there were over 175 PINK Saturday participants, so much enjoyable PINK visited, and found this new blog to me, please take a moment to go visit: http://www.altheredschoolmarm.blogspot.com/

As always, thanks to our wonderful hostess: Beverly at http://www.howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ for promoting Pink Saturdays, always a joy!