That's Crafty!: Everything comes in threes including ATCs! By Helen Pigott

Good Morning!

It is starting to feel like autumn here in Hertfordshire

and there is nothing I like more on a day like today

than grabbing a cuppa and hiding away in my craft room.

Today I am sharing 3 autumnal floral ATCs.

What I did:

I started by making my backgrounds using a combination of yellow and orange Fresco Paints through the Distressed Harlequin stencil. These Dinky stencils are the perfect proportion for ATCs.

I chose 3 of the small funky flower heads and stems, marked the shape of the flower on the stem and trimmed to fit my card.

As I wanted the colours to 'pop' I gave the greyboard a thin layer of white paint, but you could also use Gesso.

Using 'London Bus' Fresco by PaperArtsy I covered the flower head below with 2 coats of paint.

I painted the other 2 flower heads in a similar way.

To liven up the colour I rubbed a little gold wax (or Lustre) lightly over the top, the effect is amazing. I have shown close ups of before and after the wax so you can see the effect it makes.

My 3 funky flowers all ready to go!

I used DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics to paint the stems, I mixed Green Gold and Yellow Green Light together and once it was dry I brushed a brown paint lightly over the top.

13 Arts have a lovely 6" x 6" paper pack called Rose Fields, I used this to back the open part of the flowers.

Once the flowers and stems were dry I glued them into place on my cards. I used a fine black journal pen to give a border and used Idea-ology 'ChitChat' stickers by Tim Holtz for titles.