Triptych ATC Swap

The current swap over on the Flickr group

Art 'n' Soul as chosen by Deb

is to create a triptych ATC using one of two formats.

I chose the easier option a gatefold ATC.

The theme is 'Altered Heads' and the head of whatever

image we choose may be altered in any way we like.

I remembered seeing a great tutorial video once

 and managed to find it again called

 'Postage People' 

where a postage stamp was used

over the head of an image in a collage.

I decided to go along those lines too. 

Starting with an image which I cut out - and cut off

the head completely, I replaced it with an old postage stamp.

I then merged the postage stamp into the image by

drawing in the shoulders and joining it to the main image.

Before all that though I started with a piece of white card

covered it with some book text, painted with acrylics and spritzed

 (Crafty Notions - Creative Colour - Spraypaque Fire Opal)

to give it a lovely glimmer.

I hot glued a piece of sari ribbon across the back.

The centre back panel will be covered with

my details before I send it out.

For the front edges I die cut (Alterations/Sizzix On The Edge

'Plaque and Postage') a strip of card decorated in the same

way as the rest of the card.

The little head I cut off from the main image fitted just

right in the hand and appeared to be looking up at the

new head.  It therefore had to become Shakespeare's Yorick

from Hamlet -  the words I used were the best

I could come up with! 

I added three bells to a jump ring and tied them to

each end of the sari ribbon - so it's nice and jingly too!

The deadline for this swap isn't until 15th February

so I'm nice and early!

Thanks for looking :)