Hey there friends! Hoping you had a wonderful weekend and ready to start a fun week ahead! Although we’ve been having some cool and rainy days this week, I know that some nice warm weather is on it’s way and I’m really looking forward to it and getting outdoors to my flowers!
For today, I have something a bit different that is not a card, but I think a really cool and fun way to experiment with different media and ideas…especially on a smaller “non-intimidatingly” way. I’m talking about those ATCs (Artist Trading Cards for the newbies)! It’s like a “fun size” candy bar in small bite form…these are like the “fun size” of the traditional A2 sized cards! LOL! They’re normally 3 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ which is similar to the size of a business card. They’ve been around for years since I started stamping and newer to me are the round coin ones. (I will attempt those at another time, I’m sure!)
I had a few challenges in mind and found some time yesterday to have a play:
Rainbows seem to be a huge deal right now and I think there is even a special day dedicated to them! I also was wanting to play with my crafty stash.
For the ATC on the left, I used the stencil and some embossing paste over a piece of watercolor paper and set aside to dry. While that was dry, I cleaned off the stencil and used it on another piece of white cardstock and used my distress inks and ink blending tool to create a rainbow background for another ATC (right). I ended up stamping the bicycle over it with black ink and then sprayed the panel with some shimmer spray.
Going back to the dry embossed paste panel, I took some Creamy Aqua Pigments and added rainbow colors at the top and then sprayed them with water and let it drip down. I let the colors run and even left some white on there as you can see above. I let it dry and then splattered some black watered down paint to splatter over it with a paint brush. I then stamped the clouds from the same stamp set, fussy cut them out and popped them over the background.
On both ATCs, I white heat embossed the sentiments over black cardstock and cut them out with my scissors to place over top. For the bicycle ATC, I added some metallic Fibers along with some flowers. Part of the sentiment was popped up on foam tape for both of them. One of the clouds was popped up with foam tape on the left one.
Super fun to play and create with!
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I had made one early last month too, but never posted it, so I thought this would help fit it in for today:
Not really a “rainbow” theme, but this was sure fun to create and doodle around with!
For this one, I finally got a chance to play with my Neon Aqua Pigments! I used the “smoosh technique” with them for this background and let it dry. Then I used some black embossing paste over the Wallpaper stencil.
I also stamped the shoes and colored those in with the Neon AP and popped it up with foam tape over a another piece of the metallic Fibers like I used on the “bicycle ATC” above. I also took glitter pen to go over the shoes and added a yellow rhinestone to it. From the stamp stamp set, I took the sentiment and stamped it in black ink, fussy cut it out and layered it over some black CS and fussy cut it out leaving a border. Each one glued over the background. I took a black pen and doodled along the edges.
And of course, when you shut the lights off and turn on your black light, you can REALLY see the fun and funky neon colors glow on it!! Even this photo doesn’t do it justice because it looks so fun in person!
For my ATCs, I’ve been attaching them to Chipboard for sturdiness. I also added the Artist Trading Card Labels for the backs of them.
Hope you’ve enjoyed my ATCs today and gave you a little inspiration to try one out for yourself! But I have to warn you….just like those “fun-sized” candy bars, you can just have one!! LOL!
Thanks for dropping in today friends!! Enjoy your week!
Challenges: (For top ATCs only)
- ATC Around the World – Flowers (Bicycle ATC only)
- Creative Crafting Uncles – Anything BUT a Card
- Creativ Fusion Arts & Crafts – Anything Goes
- Happy Little Stampers ATC – Rainbow
- Crafty Friends – Flowers (Bicycle ATC only)
- {Cupcake Inspirations} – CIC493 “Let’s Roll!” (Bicycle ATC only)
- A Bit More Time to Craft – #116 Anything Goes
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