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