I got the notion to create an ATC Abecedarium a little over a year ago. I bought paper and cut out 26+ cards then and have been ruminating and making notes since then. Yesterday, I had the time and inclination to get started. I started with the letter D.
D.
I don’t totally love the look, but I do love how I did the “D” of it all.
It says: A diving dragonfly dropping dice on a doe deer drinking a dotted daquiri adjacent a diamond-plate daisy, all on a diagonal-striped, daffodil-yellow background.
I know realize I should have said "… displayed on a… " but oh, well! I also misspelled daquiri. D’oh! I’ll see about fixing that somehow.
I do not plan to do them in any kind of order nor do I plan to trade them.
And I have already gotten the chance to make another while waiting for a thunderstorm to pass.
P.
I am more pleased with the look of this one! I also like the P of it all.
It says: The pine-impressed, plaid postage stamp promotes the Purple Penquin Prize to the pink polka-dot package. Price: 1 puce penny.
The plaid is embossed with pinecones/boughs, but I couldn’t really get the camera to catch it. They just look like color inconsistencies in the photo.
W.
I had a lot of fun getting the W of it all going on this one.
It says:
Below a winter sky, the White Whale of the Woodgrain Waters quaffs white wine while swimming among the wreath-weeds-with-Wisconsin.
The wine glass is acetate and difficult to capture the stem with my phone camera. The Wisconsin is from a map of the US die and I tried to make it look like the cheese head hats that the Green Bay Packers fans wear.
B.
Boy, oh boy, did I have fun with B. This one morphed and shifted more along the way than the others. Orignally the bird was going to be black or blue, the basket was going to have blue balls (stop), and the branch was just a branch. I spotted the little buckles in my stash of pre-cut things yesterday and had an ah-ha moment with them today.
It says:
A buff-colored bird wearing a black bowtie & brown buckles brings beige bones to the blueberry branch on which is balanced a bronze basket of blue buttons & a bottle of burgundy behind a blue brick wall.
I am particularly tickled with how the bronze basket of blue buttons and the bottle of burgundy turned out. The ankle buckles are so ridiculous that they crack me up a little.
