Crafty Tuesday Harry Potter ATCs
Posted By Kathleen David on March 6, 2012
And I have LunaCon in a week and a half. *sigh*
Not at my best on that one.
I am part of the Harry Potter Crafts. I have been for a number of years and done swaps and challenges over the years.
This past swap was making 4 ATC (Artist Trading Cards: Which are cards that are the size of a baseball or trading card and given or exchanged not sold).
(for the Visually impaired, there are four cards here. This will be a short description of each because I am talking more about them in the entry. The one to the left is a furry Monster card with eyes and teeth. The top card is a willow tree with a Beware sign to the right of it. The right card says “Qudditch Rules” and has two broom sticks crossed, a snitch at the top, two quaffels on either side of the broomsticks. The bottom card says Bernie Botts on the top and Every Flavored Bean on the bottom of the card with colorful jelly beans in between)
The theme was Hogwarts’ students so I decided to try a number of different things.
The first card, the one on the left, I did was the second version of a card I did a couple of Valentine’s ago. It is the Monster book done as a card. The interior of the card is a lovely blood red paper. It is glued to two pieces of cardstock the size of the ATC. I put brown fun fur on the outside and glued some googly eyes on top. The teeth are made of watercolor paper and I almost got them to fit into each other.
The second card I did was the one on the right. I used watercolor paper and used watercolor paint for the background with one color to represent each house. I then used paper to create the two brooms, the snitch, and the two quaffels. Watercolors are pretty new to me but I like how they look.
The third card is the bottom card. I took a Bernie Bott’s box and carefully cut the logos off the box. I made the beans with a new set of flair color pens. Yes, Flair is back again and they are pretty nifty to use. I like the thin lines I could do without bleeding between the colors.
The fourth card was the top one and was the card furthest outside my comfort zone but I thought I would give it a go. It is the Womping Willow that I did all in watercolor. I learned a lot about watercolor by doing it including that I really like playing with watercolors. The sign that says “Beware” is a separate piece that I made and glued onto the card.
So that’s the ATCs. I am working on stuff for LunaCon and Caroline’s science project so I have to be twice as creative in totally different ways this week.
I am grateful for having such a good time painting.
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