Inspiration: Simon Says Stamp Monday
My local scrapbook store has been encouraging her clients to try out ATCs in the past year and she has set up an exchange box at the store, where you can come in with your creations and exchange them for other crafters' ATCs. When I saw the Simon Says Stamp challenge, I thought it would be a good time to finally bite the bullet and make at least one. What's mostly been holding me back is that I have a ton of Christmas crafting that I want to get done before the end of the year, so I am trying to prioritize that, but I had this leftover piece from a previous project that had not quite worked out to my liking that I figured make actually make a nice ATC background.
I had basically die-cut the hanging ornaments image from an Elizabeth Crafts Planner Essentials die set out of green glitter paper and glued it on a piece of paper from the Jingle All the Way collection (back when I was making a card series with that collection). It wasn't quite what I needed so it has remained in a scraps box since. I had also some embossed wax seals leftover from testing out a new Switchlits set, so after cutting my ATC to size, I added that to the empty spot. I wanted to add a little sentiment, so I went digging for my Jingle All the Way stickers and while I was looking at the content, I also found a foam sticker of holly leaves that I added to the wax seal. I then used various colours of Nuvo drops to fill in the elements of the die-cut. This made a huge difference on the finished result. Had I thought to do that on the original piece, I might have been more inspired to turn it into a card. I rounded the corners and inked the edges and here is my very first ATC card! Hoping to make more after the Holidays.
Supplies
Glimmer Paper: Dark Green (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers, Foam Stickers, Sticker Book: Jingle All the Way (Simple Stories)
Dies: Planner Essentials (Elizabeth Crafts Design); Wax Seals Switchlits (Sizzix)
Ink: Soft Sky (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories: Blending Daubers (i-Crafter); Distress Crayon (Tim Holtz for Ranger);
Crystal and Dream Drops (Nuvo); Corner Chomper (We R Memory Makers)
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