Gold Leaf over dry embossing ATC

The theme for 9ATC group is to Revive an Old Technique from our early days of stamping. I choose to use gold leafing in a new to me way, over dry embossing. I cut a sheet of paper made with the Fossil Stone Technique into ATC sized cards, then embossed using an embossing folder. Used a glue pad to apply glue to the raised surfaces. When the glue was tacky, spread a mixture of different colored gold leafing over the glue.

I like how this background turned out

To finish the atc, used a die cut to cut out letters to spell H O P E out of paper previoulsy inked and sprayed and adhered them to the middle of the atc. Attached a small butterfly sticker to the upper left corner.

Watercolor ATC

The theme for 9ATC Group is Watercolor. I stamped a flower image with black Stazon Ink and the stem with green Stazon Ink. The background was colored with blue watercolors, the flower petals were colored with red watercolors and then a purplish Twinkling H2Os for highlights. The gold center and highlights were also Twinkling H2Os. Added a black strip of Washi tape to the bottom of the atc. Punced out two dragonfly images from previously inked book pages, and colored the body and head with black marker.

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.