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Tuesday 22 October 2013
Deeper Shades of Night
Hello all!
Things are just about returning to normal here... thank you so much for all your kind thoughts and well-wishing recently.
It's time for the new challenge at Fun With ATCs, and the theme this fortnight is Night.
If you hop over, you'll find lots of inspiration from my fabulous team-mates, and here's my starter for ten.
It's related to my Black, White and Red Lonely Leaf ATC from a couple of months ago - I think this could be the start of a series!
And it's a complete contrast to the multiple images of my Around the World in 80 Stamps ATC... this one is very simple.
I used one of my very few wood-mounted stamps - the gorgeous Tim Holtz bare branches - and stamped it in Jet Black Archival onto a Specialty Stamping paper ATC.
I hand cut a little disc of paper to use as the mask for my moon, and then inked Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink onto the ATC.
I worked more layers of inking towards the top of the ATC to get that sense of the gathering night overhead.
And then the little Hero Arts alphabet set provided the single word 'night' - an echo of the single word 'alone' on the Lonely Leaf - this is shaping up to be quite a dark set of ATCs!
And there you have it. Do hop over to see what the rest of the team have come up with, and then we'd love to see your take, so come and share your 2.5 by 3.5 inch ATCs on the theme of Night with us at Fun With ATCs. See you there!
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
From Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
Oops, I forgot - there's also another (C*******s) card over at Artistic Outpost today... Better late than never, eh?!
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Alison as always a great work! Simple but wonderful!!!! Barbarayaya
I love it!
A beautiful representation of the theme.
hugs {brenda} x0x
Fabulous Alison. I love the sky at night and more so when I can view the moon through the trees. You have captured the feel of this so well.
Hope you are managing to rest
Hugs Annie x
How moody is this? Great ATC
Love
Amanda x
Terrific ATC, Alison!
Hugs,
Claudia x
Wow Alison, you have certainly created a wonderful atmospheric ATC, love that sky and the tree is fabulous. Hugs, Anne x
Absolutely love this, Alison; great atmosphere ... magnificent. Suzanne x
Fantastic Alison...a beautiful night sky with the moon and tree...gorgeous.
luv CHRISSYxx
You have created something special in this small space Alison. A full moon is always mysterious and especially when viewed through a leafless tree.
Love Chrissie xx
Wonderfully atmospheric, Alison. And especially suitable with Halloween almost upon us.
Simply gorgeous! Great masking! xx
Simple, elegant and captures the theme perfectly.
Hi Alison, fab ATC you really get the feel the moon is shining down on you. xxxx
Great calm feel to this - so beautiful!
Your last post made me smile remembering our move! Well done for getting sorted so quickly! Wishing you lots of happy creative moments in that lovely room! Chrisx
I really like this series so far. The tree with the single red leaf was stunning and so is this one. The blue is just perfect.
Gorgeous as usual Alison. Must dig my Speciality stamping paper out - being very tight with it!
Haa Haa!
Hugs
xx
Ahhhh - my favorite time of the day.
Sandy
Wonderful ATC's so atmospheric.
Yvonne
Welcome back to normality Alison! Great ATC, those branches look sublime against that moon, very atmospheric!!
Great atc, Alison!!!!
Love the fact that even if we took the same approach to the theme, the ATCs are sooo different, Alison!
Your white moon disc looks awesome with the branches in front.
Hugs,
Claudia x
Alison, good to read you are living a normal life again, dear-
The beautiful simple card is with so much athmothphere , and those branches in the moonlight looks gorgeous against the evening blue sky!
Your christmas card is the most cozy winter card, and a restful feeling falls apon me watching it.
Thank you for your sweet comment,on my blog - and for telling me to make some buttons - I will try sometime :-)
Hugs from Dorthe
Love this! What a fantastic job you have done creating this beauty!
Hugs, Cathy-Lynn
A wonderful sense of drama to your ATC and I like that branch stamp very much.
Glad to read that life is settling down somewhat for you Alison and have to say Thank You for catching-up with my Blog, especially at such a hectic time in your life.
Wishes
Lynne
P.S. Off to visit your Christmas card.
Really beautiful very elegant, love the colour too
Hugs
Jools x
Quite simple maybe, but beautiful representations of both Halloween and Christmas themes, as all you do ! I love especially the card, so sweet with its snow...!! And of course, I'm very jealous of your wonderful wooden stamp branch of TH as you know Rofl ! :)) Hugs, Coco xx
You have me howling at the moon! Alison, I love the full moon scene you have created. Gorgeous!
Wonderful ATC, I love your moon scene, Alison.
Hugs
Anke
Simple and quite magical. That moon pops up from the tree!
A beautiful ATC - simple and very elegant! Claire x
Gorgeous ATC Alison... glad you are getting settled...Hugs May x x x
Wonderful ATC, the moon looks great.
Simply gorgeous.
Wwo such a gorgeous ATC, I love the simplicity of it!!!
Greetings
Maria
Wow wow absolutely gorgeous, I love doing night time scenes with a moon and yours is amazing, I have started playing again with ATCS so I might have a go. Hugs :-) Kezzy xxx
WOW, I looooove that stamp, and the scene you created, FABULOUS, it looks so real, all in that tiny space, excellent ATC, ooww I can't wait to see the more, thanks for sharing and happy things are getting back to normal and you have that awesome studio to work in and create you magic....
Wow, what a beautiful night! Gorgeous ATC! Love it for its simplicity :)
Love this ATC! That branch stamp is cool!
beautifully simple. EE
Ok ... I must say that even though I was "absent" from crafty blogland over the last few weeks, I really wasn't truly absent. I would sneak a peek at project now and again. And the "night" ATC was one that grabbed and held my attention during this time. So much impact in a little space. Love the darkening sky and I'm amazed how white the moon remained. I would have smudged something on it before the end of the project. Sigh! Love those bare limbs. Almost reminds me of a December or January night. Soooooo love this ATC Alison!! One of my favorite pieces. -- Mary Elizabeth
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