nursery rhymes

a good art friend of mine is hosting a fairy tale swap for atc sized cards. i had this humpty dumpty stamp for ages that i got from alpha stamps (check out their website at: www.alphastamps.com) quite a long time ago and just didn't have the chance to use it. i often wonder when i look at people's art...and i ask myself...how did they do that? so i've been thinking i will share the steps in making some of the art i post for anyone who is curious. here's what i did for this atc: i stamped humpty on white cardstock and colored it in with copic and prismacolored markers. then i stamped some dots on top his little head. i cute out the entire stamp and edged it in an opaque black paint pen and light brown ink. the atual atc background was created by using a blue cardstock which is suppose to emulate night time and then i used a metallic blue gel pen and wrote the humpty dumpty nursery rhyme on it. i took some blue acrylic paint and painted haphazardly around the edges of the card. i also used acrylic paint to stamp the yellow swirl which is suppose to be the moon. i added some other stamps around the sides and stamped the stars across the top which i colored the numbers inside the stars with a light yellow gel pen. i cut slits in the humpty stamped image around the bottom of his feet to free them so i could slide a piece of green paper (painted with acrylic paint and then stamped with an "assemblage" definition stamp) underneath them.