Red and Black ATCs

I am lucky to have the opportunity to make ATCs on a color combo theme every month with my friends Frieda Oxenham, Debby Harriettha and Caryl Hoobler. This is the third year I have participated in this exchange and I so love it! For February the color combo was Red and Black. Here is a step-by-step of how I put these together. First, I played with images (ARTchix Studio) and other rubber stamped images to get an idea of placement.

Add color with a red watercolor crayon:

wet it to activate it:

I found I wanted more color:

added a texture stamp in red:

ALL of the ATCs painted and stamped:

A black line and black stamping added:

I made an extra one -- here they are, all put together. 

That was fun, and red is not even a favorite color of mine!

yours creatively, lenna young andrews - March 5, 2010