Lots to Do Challenge

I am in an ATC swap on one of my groups so my mind is on them at the moment. I am spending my spare time making ATC's today and below is a Stampbord one I have done for the challenge on Lots To Do.

First of all I stamped the head, masked it and put a scarab beetle behind at the top. Then I painted them both with Twinkling H2O's. When I came to scratching bits out they didn't show up very well (you can't see the scratchings on the head-dress but if you look closely you can see some on the beetle) so I took another Egyptian stamp and put that down the left hand side - much better to scratch out. I then added the word "Egypt" at the bottom and highlighted that with some more scratching.

So my entry is an ATC. Wonder if my dil would like it?

TMTA Challenge

Over on TMTA the Challenge this week is "Friendship".

Despite having a few days away I have not been feeling at all well this week so almost missed this Challenge. Here is my ATC:

I had a photoart stamp of a mother teaching her daughter to sew. I have used this stamp on an ATC before when I first began the altered corset swap I am in because Paddy's (whose corset I was altering at the time) mother was a corsetiere so I thought sewing was appropriate. Can't remember what I did then with the image as it was so long ago but I know it involved cut out lilacs..

This time I DTP'd the ATC with Brilliance Inks (Twilight) and stamped a second generation Harlequin Background (Hero Arts) on it. Then I stamped the photoart stamp with Versamark Sepia and cut it out, rounding the corner to match the ATC.

The words are computer generated as I did not have suitable stamps and then some silk flowers are stuck on with glitter centres.

Hope this is fine for the Challenge - I know my Mother was my Best Friend.