Beach Rules ATC's & Altoids Tin

As you know this month the Altered Pages Design Team is fortunate enough to be co-hosting a month full of fun with IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko combining the wonderful products of both companies into our creations.

For my final project of the month I wanted to share

 a fun box full of ATC's which are in fact: 

BEACH RULES!

To help hide the writing, I inked the tin with Mellow Mint Opaque StazOn ink to which I applied a layer of GlazOn. I then added Blue Hawaii, Midnight Blue and Spiced Chai StazOn Midi's to make the sand, surf and sky.

I mixed some brown micro beads with a bit of Vintage Creative Medium to add a texture element to imitate sand.  (I also used this mixture on one of the ATC's.).   The two photos show what it looked like before and after mixing.  I just smeared it on the tin (and ATC) with the craft knife and left it to dry.

Before I smeared on the micro bead sand though I added the fun group of friends at the beach image (which is from the collage sheet On The Beach) .  I thought they looked great rushing out of the water onto the sandy beach.   

I added a bit of wadded glassine envelope to imitate the waves rolling in, a tiny starfish and the sentiment all using Vintage Creative Medium which adds a nice sepia tint. 

When you flip the lid open you'll find the...Beach Rules ATC's!  Inside the cover of the tin is an image of a wooden arrow pointing the way to the swimming hole.  But this is also Beach Rule 

#1 - Swim Often!

The is the "Beach Rule" ATC - sort of the cover to the book type of thing to tell you what's to come.

Beach Rules....

#2:  Bare Feet are Mandatory

Image - The Water's Fine; Cork; StazOn Midnight Blue, Spiced Chai.

#3: Breath the Salty Air

Tilted Vertigo Film inked with StazOn ink on the back.  

Image and sentiment adhered using Clear Creative Medium.

#4:  Collect Seashells

Shells colored using Memento Dual Tip Markers, 

Sponged LUXE Inks & StazOn Spiced Chai along the edges.

#5 You're Never Too Old to Frolic

Background created using a Monoprint Technique & LUXE Ink.

#6: Soak up the Sun

StazOn Midi's & GlazOn on Sheet Metal ATC, 

Image & Sentiment adhered with Clear Creative Medium

#7: Ride the Waves

Rattlesnake Vertigo Film - Image applied to the back using Clear Creative Medium 

then inked using StazOn Blue Hawaii Midi & Midnight Blue.  

Sentiment glued to front of ATC.

#8: Build Sandcastles

Game Board ATC blank inked with Memento LUXE inks. 

The "sand" was created by mixing Vintage Creative Medium with brown micro beads.

#9: Enjoy the Breeze

This ATC was created on a large piece of mica - the image and sentiment were both adhered to the back of the ATC using Clear Creative Medium then inked & stamped with StazOn Midi's ink.

#10: Use the Buddy System

Creative Medium image transfer onto paper.  The image was then mounted to a piece of canvas which was colored using Memento LUXE ink.   Below is a close up of the Image Transfer - this was made using an ink jet print. It is recommended that you use a toner based image but personally I like the distressed look of the ink jet image better.

#11: Listen to the Waves Roll In

This is a double image transfer using Creative Medium onto a piece of Taffeta Vertigo Film (on the back).  The image of the girl on the dock was the first transfer then I transferred inked washi tape for the second image transfer.  I rubbed a bit of the second transfer off of the girl image so it didn't detract from that image too much.  

and finally Beach Rule

#12 Enjoy the Wild Life!

This image was adhered to a piece of handmade white paper using Vintage Creative Medium.  The paper it's self had been coated with a layer of the Vintage CM prior to the image being glued down for a bit of color.

And here they are all together....

I hope you've enjoyed this tin full of 

Beach Rules!

Special thanks to IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko for supplying us with so many of their wonderful products used in this months creations!

IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko products used: Opaque StazOn - Mellow Mint; StazOn Midi's - Midnight Blue, Blue Hawaii, Spiced Chai; Cloudy Sky; Creative Medium - Clear & Vintage; Memento LUXE Ink - Nautical Blue, Danube Blue, Peanut Brittle, Pistachio, Rich Cocoa; Memento Dual Tip Markers - Peanut Brittle, Desert Sand, Pistachio; GlazOn - Vintage; Vertigo Film - Rattlesnake, Tilted, Taffeta; Sheet Metal ATC Blank; Radiant Neon Inks

Altered Pages products used: Collage Sheets - On the Beach; Sea Creatures; Curiosities Lapides, At the Beach 1907; Girls of Summer, The Water's Fine, Before Bikinis, Dans La Mer, Metal ATC Tin w/ATC cards; Cork; Mica; Canvas; Travel Labels;  Glassine Envelope; Micron Pen; Washi Tape

Other Supplies: Brown & Blue Micro Beads; Computer Generated Sentiments; Star Fish; Game Board ATC Blank;  hand made paper