Sunflowers and Dragonflies Challenge #12

Pull out the ATC size and create!!..I love doing ATCs because they are small and I get a quick satisfaction from doing them.

It's been a while since I used my Asian wood stamps so I thought I would do something with them.  Using black cardstock, the lady and branches were embossed with gold embossing powder from Custer's Last Stamp, Inc. Corners were punched using my Marvy punch and then metallic gold thread was used. Just to give my lady a little color, I used my Sharpie red pen to color in some of the flowers.  Once I was done, I felt like it needed something, so I grabbed my Moon Glow's Glitz Spray (Medieval Gold) that I've had for about 4 years!! I gave it one good spray.  Still something was missing...I took a cream color satin ATC and bordered the edges with my gold American Crafts metallic marker.  Adhered the two together and I knew I was done!!

Thank you Beth, for having another great challenge at Sunflowers and Dragonflies

Be sure to check out Beth's blog and see what the design team has to show you!

August ATC-hand drawn

Each month we have a different theme and guess who picked 'hand drawn'? Yep, me..the person who can't draw!..I tried so many different things that I was ready to scream, but...to save my sanity I thought of the design above. All hand drawn and designed by me. :) Wish you could see the 'shine' this card has! I used H2O and Pearlescent watercolors by Yasutomo. The center triangle is on a pop dot.

July ATC Toys

Wow, was this a hard one!!..Toys..how tuff could that be?? Well, it was!!..I had some Lego paper (sorry can't rmember whose) and figured that would be a beginning. I bought toy buttons, cut off the back and hot glued them down. Cricut cut the word out for me.

June ATC Angels

Here is what I sent out for my June swap. The card is a pretty linen in a light beige so I knew working with gold should work well. The corners are peel and stick stickers and the card and around the angel card was done with a gold pen. Simple and clean, but I like how it turned out.

May's ATC

May's challenge was to use a brown paper bag. The background was embossed with my cuttlebug swiss dot embossing folder and taped to cardstock. Using brown and gold ink, I gave it a designed look. The flower pot was cut using my Sizzix die and that too was embossed (don't remember the name of the folder). Again, I used ink to give it color. Then the flower pot was set on pop dots for dimension. Luckily, I was at a SWARM when I did these and someone had the Beaches cartridge for me to cut this little guy!!..He is a perfect finishing touch!! The 'cactus' was cut with my Cricut Home Accents cartridge and then topped with Stickles. Please check out Ker's blog to see some awesome ATCs by some very talented ladies.

April ATC-60's

Well, they say if you remember the 60's you didn't really live it...hahahaha...The word LOVE is on the Home Accents Cricut cartridge and when I saw it, I knew it would be perfect!!

March ATC Feathers

This is one of 14 that were done for the Cricut ATC Challenge. I used Glitter Mist on the card for a little color. On the vintage clipart I embossed it 3 times with clear embossing and then when dried, cracked it. The Nestabilities cut is on pop dots. I cut a little slit in her hat and tucked in the feather. Added a little bling and she is done!

ATC Nina

Here is an ATC I did using Nina as my subject. The photo was an accident that happened when I went to print and since I loved how it came out, I decided to keep it. I would never have thought to alter her hair, but I like how it came out.