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Sunday 5 October 2008

Mannequin ATCs





I've joined another of the hosted swaps over on the DoCrafts forum. This one is a 'Mannequins' swap and is being hosted by Helen whose DoCraft's name is Smellihelli!
She said we could interpret the swap however we liked and I hope my interpretation is acceptable because I used a rubber stamped image of a dressmaker's form on a couple of the ATCs which I suppose isn't strictly the same as a mannequin as the dictionary defines it as a 'woman who models clothes'. Near enough I suppose - well I hope so anyway!
I couldn't resist using my favourite medium again - beeswax - I just love it! So all of the backgrounds have either dressmaking tissue paper or plain tissue paper beeswaxed onto them. The 'mannequins' are rubber stamped images onto Grungeboard (the pretty pink one and the yellow dressmaking one), the red one is rubber stamped onto metal which I then embossed and coloured with alcohol inks and finally, the one with the red button on is rubber stamped onto shrink plastic (that's why it's so tiny!)
Some lovely Mannequin ATCs have been appearing in the galleries and blogs of other participants and some absolutely stunning ones can be found in Sian's. I do hope that I'm lucky enough to get one of hers back in the swap. Wonder if Helen is taking bribes this time around - lol!!

7 comments:

Jan said...

Am loving these Sherry - I DO like the beeswax effect.
Congrats on the sidebar!!

Viv said...

These are FABBY!!! Love the red metal one!

MARGARET FIELD said...

Wow, love the Pink one Sherry, it's fabulous.

Oh and i love listening to the Green Day song.

Dee said...

Love them all. Dee x

John Dyhouse said...

You appear to be really involved with this wax thing. I am wondering about trying it for myself as it seems to produce some great results.

and.........

"You have been tagged". Visit my blog to see:

http://johndyhouse.blogspot.com

John

Sian said...

I love all your mannequin ATCs, especially the bottom one. I can't quite seem to manage to get to grips with the beeswax in the way that you obviously have.

Thanks for the link too!

Ana Cristina Caldatto said...

Belissimos ATC's