Monochrome Mixed Media ATCs with Sketchy Leaves

Lindsey (@doodlings_cards) with you today. I have a couple of mixed media ATCs made with images from the Mix It Up #1 stamp set and focal images from Sketchy Leaves

Here’s the step by step tutorial:

For my backgrounds, I used a brayer and Distress Oxide to colour a piece of card. Then used Lindy’s Magicals on an acrylic block, spritzed with water and “stamped” this on the background to add texture and shimmer.

I used a couple of the images from the Mix It Up #1 stamp set to decorate the background. I love the numbers stamp – one of my favourites!

I also used the swirly image but rather than using an acrylic block, I held the stamp in my fingers so that I achieved a partial stamping effect. I used Versamark Gold ink and then heat embossed the swirls in shiny gold.

I must have been a magpie in a previous life 😂

For the collage elements, I used my favourite trick of stamping on tissue paper – this is great because you don’t really see the edges of the tissue paper once it’s stuck down 😊

Then I heat embossed a couple of images from the Sketchy Leaves set, using white embossing powder on brown paper (nothing wrong with a bit of recycling!).