On Art-Venturers, Adrienne will be the "It" girl in September. I got an early start, since it will be sent to Wales. Her theme is medieval. I wanted to make an ATC holder for her, and was inspired in the design by the Gothic Door Covers Wendy Thrift in Australia made for her Angel Skinny book. She doesn't have a blog, so I can't show you her gorgeous covers.
I made the template by laying the plastic holders where I would attach them on both sides with the Bind-It-All, and cut out cardboard in an arched door shape. I cut out another piece to match and then cut it down the middle to make the front doors.
I painted over the cardboard with gold acrylic paint. When it dried I ran the front doors through the Cuttlebug, using a wood like embossing folder for the lower portion, then used the swirl embossing folder for the upper portion. I used a Brilliance ink pad to run over the surfaces. Below you see the front and back side of the doors:
To decorate the inside back, I printed out an illustrated text, wrinkled it up and opened. Sprayed with walnut ink and heat set. Ran a light Distress ink over the surface then stamped flourishes with a dark Distress ink.
I choose an angel image to use on the inside of the doors, cut them out, then over stamped a texture design with a light Distress ink to give them an aged appearance:
To make aged looking door handles, I cut out grunge board with a flourish die, and painted with bronze Lumiere paint. Then hammered with a texture hammer and layered on color with Distress inks:
I finished the front by stamping Adrienne's initials with black ink on gold paper and mounting on bronze card stock.
Inside:
Inside back:
Back of holder: I just ran a brown Brilliance ink over the surface with a streaking motion and stamped an image with black Archival ink.
Hope it passes for medieval.
To make the holes more prominent and to add more blue to the piece, I ran a bit of blue metallic foil under the punched holes:
I choose an image I liked, I stamped bits of the same flourish on it with Lumiere paint:
Before adding the image, I stamped the same flourish with the same Lumiere paint over the background. Added a red ribbon, black paper to make the image stand out, and a flower.
I like the quirkiness of this ATC. Maybe this month, I'll win the lottery and will be able to keep it : )
I colored the blank areas with a lavender Distress ink:
I wanted to pick up on the flourish that was already on the paper. I used the same stamp with gesso to give the paper a unified feel (note how the white stamping soften the big black area): 
After the gesso dried, I used some script and postscript images to stamp over the paper:
While the ink was still wet, I covered the whole sheet with clear embossing ink and heat set:
Next, I wrinkled up the paper to cause some areas to crack. Then working in one area at a time, reheated the embossing to make it sticky, laid down some colored foil and rubbed with my fingers. 
I decided to add 3D butterflies and choose the papers you see below. The piece on the left was made by using the leftover paint I made to cover the top half of the 
I cut the butterfly shapes out with a Cuttlebug die and ran the orange piece through the Cuttlebug two times: first with the swiss dots embossing folder and colored with Brilliance ink; second through the collage embossing folder and colored with black StazOn ink. I ran the copper foil one through the swirly embossing folder and colored with black StaZon ink. I then attached the two butterflies back to back.
Used a baby wipe, to wipe the spray off the gessoed images. Then I stamped a bird and some words with black Archival ink, added a saying and ran a gold Krylon pen over the edges to finish the front of the page:
For the back, I used the 
I placed a torn piece of paper over the image and sprayed the surface with a color mist of red ink & copper perfect pearls.
I added more color with Brilliance ink pads and gold spray, the lightning black Brilliance ink was rubbed on with my finger and then wiped off, to make the embossing show more.
I covered the image with clear embossing powder and the rest with holographic embossing powder and heat set.
