As many of you know, I have had to undergo back surgery to repair a herniated disk (L5 to be exact). Recovery is going well, but TV gets boring! So I needed something to do for those few hours a day when I felt ambitious.
I have worked on a number of scrapbook pages, but only after I started being able to sit up for longer periods of time. ATCs are small, portable and they usually take less time than a scrapbook page. I say "usually" take less time than a scrapbook page because sometimes an ATC will take me a few hours!
I started making some ATCs. Took some stamped images I had and made ATCs. Joined some ATC swaps. The best part of ATCs is that you can use scraps of paper, AND they can be versatile enough to be able to turn into a card or add to a scrapbook page.
For this Thanksgiving ATC, I used a Stampin'Up! stamp set, stamped the truck on orange paper, cut out the image and added to front of card with foam dots. Added sentiment, circle clip and some fibers and it's complete!
This ATC is a great example of using up scraps! Only had a scrap of the plaid paper, used small piece of white to stamp pumpkin (then cut out), and stamp sentiment. Added mini Prima flowers and brads for centers.
A scrap of BasicGrey as the base layer, another small piece of BG from the Mellow collection, stamped sentiment on scrap of printed paper (you see partial leaf print on "Thinking of you" piece, then I added a strip of ribbon and one of my very own hand-made clay buttons.
I made the clay pumpkin out of Fimo / Sculpey clay. They are quick and easy and bake in oven to make them harden. Ran some organdy ribbon through the "button holes" I made before baking.
Just a few Thanksgiving ATC ideas for you. No need to make a card ... take a card base, attach an ATC to the front and you've got a greeting card.
I'll be back with some Christmas ATCs!
Those are very fun and colorful trading cards
Posted by: Fink | November 16, 2008 at 06:55 PM