Fly Away Back Cover

At the Collage Stuff yahoo group, we are starting on a new little fat book swap. The book is titled "Fly Away" and it is a bird-themed LFB swap. I make the covers for these books. The back cover is always digitally designed, while I make hand-made front covers. I used images from the following Collage Stuff collage sheets in this design: Angel Faces, On the Wing, Lovely Nests and the I Love NYC. I made the "fly away" at the Acme Label Maker website. Several elements were added by using PSP brushes - the crown on the bird, the gear around the eye and "branches" around the nest. I like to put words over lips, as though the words are being spoken. After I thought I was done with this, I went back in and added the words "dance on the wind".

Retro ATC

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, we're doing a Retro or 1950's themed ATC swap for March.

I used two images from the Crafty Secrets Kitchen Creative Cuts. I scanned in the Kitchen Queen image because I needed to change the letters from red to pink, so they would match the pink oven.

I started out by stamping pink polda dot paper with a Hero Arts circle stamp. I added part of a page from a vintage book about making bread. I added the two retro images and the crown. I decided that it looked blah, so I ripped off the bottom of the pink paper and put the whole thing on blue paper that I had stamped with the same circle stamp. This is more interesting and brings in the blue from the kitchen queen image. I edged the ATC in black ink. I used a silver Marvy Metallic Artist Marker to hightlight all of the images, crown and text. I underlined some words in the text. Powdered cheese? Who knew? I also went over the black on the edges with the silver marker.

The crown brads are available at Collage Stuff in mixed packs of gold, silver and pink. I have markers in gold and pink too, so I'll change things up based on the color of the crown brad.

This is another simple design that will allow me to mass produce them for this swap,.