Today I have another project to share from the gathering I went to on Saturday.  This is the ATC I created for our ATC swap.  If you aren’t familiar with ATC’S, it stands for Artist Trading Card.  They are 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. 

I decided to make mine a bit 3D this time and since I had fun creating a stair step card recently, I figured out the measurements to make it a miniature ATC size.  Here’s what I came up with, using my Ollie and Griselda set once again.  The shoes were paper pieced and boy was I tired of cutting out those curly shoes!  LOL. 

Below is a side view so you can see the folds a little better.  I had to make 24 of these for the swap so I wanted to figure out the best measurements to avoid a lot of waste in scraps.  I pulled out some 12 x 12 cardstock and cut the base of the cards so that I started with a 3 1/2 x 6 piece of cardstock.  Then I scored the 6″ length @ 1 1/2, 3, 4, 5, and 5 1/2.  The scored lines are folded mountain and valley style to create the base.

And the last photo shows how the die cut bat was attached with a small strip of clear acetate.  I sandwiched the bottom between the cardstock and the punched border. 

Tomorrow I have one more project I made with this set…and it is yummy! 

stamps- Ollie and Griselda by Cookie Crumbs; paper- Navy, White, Celery, Black, Pumpkin, retired SU! dp- Halloween Night; ink- Memento Black, Pumpkin, Saffron, Olive; accessories- Long Rectangle Nestabilities, M.S. Drippy Goo punch, clear acetate, Cuttlebug Halloween die, Scor-Tape, yellow glitter pen, Stickles.

It’s Monday…and the sun is shining so it can’t be all that bad, can it?  Don’t forget to check out the ATS forum….tonight is the release of the new sets I posted the past few days! 

Today I thought I’d share an ATC I made recently for a swap.  I started with the word stamp and designed my ATC around that.  I hoped that my ATC would look like a bed and I needed a pillow to go along with the theme.  I didn’t have any pillow stamps though and I couldn’t find any pillow clip art that I liked so I drew the pillow by hand.   Then I drew lines on the pillows with a liquid glue and applied white fun flock to look like corduroy material.  It still needed something else so I decided that the little AMuse teddy bear would look great on there.  I glittered his shirt with some Stickles to make him stand out. 

The sheets on the bed were actually made into a little pocket.  Then I stamped and attached the words to the pillow so they slip into the pocket when the pillow is in place.  I have had this unmounted stamp with the words for several years now.  I picked it up at the Creative Mode booth at a stamp convention.  When I went to use it, I knew that the word corduroy was not spelled as it should be.   But I figured there must be two ways to spell it??  It wasn’t until now that I actually looked it up on dictionary.com and realized that the company did indeed spell it incorrectly.  They have already been swapped and I know that spelling can bug me, so I apologize to those who will receive this!  I plan to cut the stamp apart and fix it somehow.  It’s going on my to-do list!  Despite the mis-spelling, I hope the recipients get a little chuckle from it.  Have a great Monday!

stamps- words-Creative Mode, bear- AMuse, pillow was hand drawn  

paper- Orchid, White, non-SU! brown, retired SU! Sweet dp

ink- Black, Turquoise, Orchid

accessories- white fun flock, Stickles, pop dots

 I was playing around the past few days making these Artist Trading Cards.  The small size is a lot of fun and a nice break from the normal A2 size card.  I ordered some cherry Card Scents from All That Scraps and it arrived today- just in time to finish up my ATC’s.  They smell so yummy now!  The bottle of scented liquid is simply brushed onto the edge of your card.  So easy!  I started out wanting to make an all white card with only the cherries in color but then I pulled out the Summer Picnic papers and added the strip of red.  I’m glad I changed it….I really like the red, black  and white combo with a bit of green!

On the second ATC I used the rectangle Nestabilities and alcohol inks again.  The owl is from an Inkadinkado set I picked up a while ago and hadn’t had a chance to use yet.  It was stamped a second time on the glossy cardstock and popped up on dimensionals.  And the sentiment is from the C.C. Designs owl set.  I used some purple ink in the background with the blue but when I added more blue to make the “night sky” appearance a little darker, the purple became barely noticible.  I added the words in purple for a little contrast.

Cherry ATC:

stamps- Tart & Tangy, By Definition, That’s Nice

paper- White, Olive, Summer Picnic dp

ink- Black, Real Red, Olive

accessories- scallop punch, circle punch, cherry Card Scents- All That Scraps

Owl ATC-    

stamps- Birds Galore- Inkadinkado, A Hootin’ Good Time- C.C. Designs

paper- Glossy White, Bashful

ink- Black, Lilac, Alcohol inks- Silver, Denim, Eggplant

accessories- Nestabilities, Stickles       
 

Here’s one of some ATC’s I made with the new Happy Heart set. I made a mini pocket card with the sentiment on an insert that pulls out. The front was folded down for a flap and the bottom edge was cut with the Fiskars scallop edge scissors. The Scor-Pal was a great tool to help make the folds! This is a cute set and I like how it’s not limited to Valentine’s Day!

stamps- Happy Heart Day
ink- Black, Cocoa, Red, Wasabi, Bayou
accessories- Fiskars scallop scissors, ribbon, corner rounder, Primas, Stickles, Scor-Pal