Love ATC

The theme for the 9ATC Group is Love. I started by gathering prevously made decorative papers, The ones that had not yet had raised metallic elements, I ran through decorative embossing folders, then covered the raised areas with metallic inks. Tore the 7 different colored papers into 1/2" strips and layered them on a blank atc card.

Inked the edges of the card with gold metallic ink. Drew a heart shape on another sheet of previously made background paper, cut out the heart and adhered it to the card. Added 3 gold dots from a gold pearl pen onto the upper left of the heart. Used an alphabet die cut to cut out the letters to spell L O V E from gold metallic paper and adhered them to the atc below the heart.

J is for ... ATC

J is for... is the theme for the 9ATC Group, I choose JOY!

Stamped the snowman image and the word 'joy' with black ink onto card stock that had been colored with blue dye ink. Used silver StazOn ink to stamp on swirl images along the side. Snowman's heart was colored with a silver ink pen, and his hat was colores with a blue dye ink pen. Punched out a snowflake from silver colored card stoack. Layered all this onto silver colored card stock.

Make your own buttons ATC

Make Your Own Buttons and use them on an ATC is the theme for the 9ATC Group.

The button was made by punching out a circle from a thin blue metal sheet, then running it through an embossing folder, then punching out 2 holes with an awl. Background is white shiny cardstock run through the same embossing folder and adhered to gold colored card stock. Stamped a flower image on yellow card stock, cut it out and added the "button". Stamped the word "inspire" with black ink onto the white shiny card stock and layer it onto blue cardstock.

Festive Season ATC

The theme for the 9ATC Group is The Festive Season

Stamped fir tree branches in green ink onto green card stock and colored in the berries with red glitter ink. Stamped an ornament image with red ink, cut it out and added it to the atc with a gold colored star and red "pearl" as the ornament topper. Added small silver colored stars to two of the corners.

Wings ATC

The theme for the 9ATC Group is Wings

I choose some pink background paper to cut into atc sized cards and stamped some French script with sepia Archival ink over the surface and used the same ink to color the edges of the card

Used two butterfly dies to cut out the shapes from some previously made decorative papers and used a silver metallic ink to add a reverse script over the butterflies. Then used some previously inked text papers to cut out wing shapes, tore one edge and added to one side of each butterfly.

Used a pearl pen to color in a body to the the butterflies between the wings. Adhered the butterflies to the background paper, then used the same pearl pen to add dots to the card.

Crown ATC

The theme for the 9ATC Group is Crown

Made the heart by using a die cut to red card stock, inked an embosing folder with black ink, placing the heart in the middle of the folder and then embossed using a Cuttlebug machine

Made the background by running black card stock through an embossing folder in a Cuttlebug machine, then sanding the raised design to expose the white center

Finished the ATC by attaching the heart to the background with a brad which had been hammered, adding a cut out crown from a background paper, then using a dyno maker with black tape to add the word "Tarnished" to the ATC, and layered onto red cardstock

Art Nouveau ATC

The theme for the 9ATC Group is Art Nouveau. I rubbed a light blue dye ink over card stock and let dry (DTP or direct-to-paper). Cut out into 2-/1/2" x 3-1/2" (atc sized) and into 2" x 3" pieces. On both I stamped a flourish image with peacock feathers Distress Ink and let dry. Layered the smaller piece onto a slightly larger copper paper and then onto the bigger piece. Cut out a woman's image from background paper and a pink lily decorative sticker and adhered them to the smaller paper.