Summer Flowers...

These are two ATCs I made recently for a forum swap I was involved in on the theme of Summer Flowers.

I had a fabulous time both stamping and colouring them. The quote was stamped in the centre of the ATC and then by masking sections off I stamped the huge (Elusive Images) flower around the quote.

I used many 'sunshine' shades of Promarkers to colour the images - one ATC was completely coloured and on the second on I attached a small tinted piece of acetate over the quote.

Charmed Cards and Crafts have a brilliant competion running at the moment so I have entered my ATCs into the 'Anything Goes' section - amazing prizes so fingers crossed! If you haven't entered this yet time is running out so do pop over and have a look - please don't win though!!

ATCs...

I haven't done any ATCs for ages, but decided to join in with a swap on a forum I belong to. The theme was an open one, which believe it or not always makes it harder for me cause I spend 90% of my time trying to decide what to do.

In the end I found these gorgeous silhouettes printed on acetate in my bit box and decided to make use of them. The embossed card was also bits left from other projects too and it was really satisfying to use it up on these.

On the first ATC I used chalk on the plain white embossed card to create the background effect and attached the acetate image with tiny pieces of tape behind the darkest part of the image. The torn vellum was stamped with the word 'believe' and attached with a gem brad and more gems finished the ATC off.

On the second ATC I use the back of some already embossed red card which had a gorgeous earthy brown colour on the reverse - a sort of classy cardboard colour. Again the acetate was attached with tape and embellishments added. I used an ink pad to soften the edges. The black swirl was sent to me by a friend some time ago when before I got my Cricut machine (thank you Irene).

Penny Black ATC...

It's ages since I entered the challenge at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/, which is crazy because I love Penny Black stamps. Anyway the challenge this week is to create and ATC and of course you have to use at least one Penny Black stamp.

The stamp I have used is one I bought at a craft show a little while back and for some reason I just never got round to using it. Could it be that I buy too much stuff? - any of my friends reading this are now nodding their heads wisely and saying we told you so!!! The stamp is called 'Burst of stars' and the quote is a clear stamp on a set by Cloud Nine Designs.

Materials used:

• 'Burst of stars' Penny Black stamp
• 'You never know when you are making a memory' quote clear stamp
• Black corrugated card
• Vintage earthy brown paper DCWV
• vellum
• brown brads
• Adirondack 'ginger' ink pad
• Versefine Black ink pad