The theme for 9ATC Group is "Joy". I decided to make a blue torn paper background. Took out a bunch of previously made blue backgrounds to choose from.
Picked 7 different blue backgrounds and tore them into thin strips and adhered them to card stock.
Colored the edges with midnight blue StazOn ink, and also highlighted the raised areas of the embossed paper on the right side.

Adhered the torn sun onto the bottom of the atc and added a butterfly embellishment:
"There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it." David Almond
Choose Joy