ATC Around the World #108 - Winter Wonderland

Well 2023, you've been a year!

Maybe I should have guessed that you'd have one more surprise in store for me in the last few days of the year...ta da....another round of COVID for this girl

Bleh

So while I am hanging out by myself in my craft room, thought I would get a head start on my 2024 crafty goal of using some design paper and collections in my stash and made a few ATCs for the latest challenge over at ATC Around the World - Winter Wonderland.

I used the Holly Jolly collection from Simple Stories and some bling and paper (sentiment cut outs) from a SCT sampler (ya I have to use those too!)

I was inspired by my crafty pal Helen's ATC and attempted to draw my own freehand borders...not the worst thing I have ever seen LOL

SoSS #240 - A is for ATC

 

Greetings and salutations snarky pals, hope that all is well in your corner of the universe.

Edna and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers are back with a new challenge, one of my favourites (I know I say that a lot). I love making ATCs. I make cards more often then coins, but I like em both.

If you've never made one before, an artist trading card is 2.5" x 3.5" and an artist trading coin is a 2.5" circle.

Everything is supposed to fit within that space, so I have cheated a little as the twine and little sign hang off the edges. These will go off in the mail to a few of my fave littles as bookmarks. 

The little hearts are dancers, their legs swing when you tip them back and forth.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• White, pink, red, blue and black cardstock (Recollections)
• Dancin' Hearts die set (Spellbinders)
• Sweet Talk design paper (Simple Stories)
• Black Soot Distress Oxide ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• Pearl sticker (Recollections)
• Twine (The Twinery)

As always, we would love for you to take up the challenge and join the sisterhood!

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SoSS BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with our reigning Queen of Snark and the rest of the sisterhood.

ATCs Around the World #97 - Anything Goes

 

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Carrying on with my 52 weeks of crafting and using up my crafty stash...I made two ATCs for the latest challenge at ATCs Around the World - Anything Goes

The supplies for these ATCs are from an old card kit that I no longer have the info for, neither the design paper or sticker sheet has a manufacturer name on it - so if you know who it is...please let me know!

Have a super awesome Sunday!!

ATCs Around the World #96 - Winter

Greetings and salutations snarky friends, hope all is well in your corner of the world!

I've been spending some time over the holidays doing some crafty stuff and trying to use up some of my ample crafty stash.

Today I made a few ATCs for the current challenge at ATCs Around the World is Winter.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Winter Farmhouse design paper (Simple Stories)
• Winter Farmhouse Combo Cardstock Stickers (Simple Stories)
• Winter Farmhouse Bits & Pieces (Simple Stories)
• Winter Farmhouse enamel dots (Simple Stories)

A Tint Craft {ATC} Challenge #14 - SPOOKY

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A Tiny Craft {ATC} team.

It's the spookiest time of the year and we are celebrating all things Halloween and spooky!

I made a set of 4 ATCs to send my favourite little trick or treaters, with a wee envelope / treat on the back.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Upcycled cardboard ATC bases
• Thrilling design paper (Authentique)
• Pumpkin die cuts (B2C - Back 2 Class)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Blending brush
• Occasional Tags die set (Brutus Monroe)
• Black and white cardstock (Recollections)
• Black twine
• Bling
• Paper clips

As always, we would love for you to get spooky with us!

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A Tiny Craft {ATC} Blog

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the team!

A Tiny Craft {ATC} Challenge #13 - Snarky

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

The A TINY CRAFT {ATC} team are back with a new challenge, our theme for this month is Snarky.

You know I love me some snark!!

Here's the ATC I made:

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base (upcycled cereal box)
• Retro People ATC Ephemera (Stamplorations)
• All The Dots design paper (Lawn Fawn)
• Washi tape (Dollar Tree)
• Sentiment Sticker (Krissyanne Designs)

As always we would love for you to play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT {ATC} BLOG

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the team and say hello to our newest team member HELEN.

A Tiny Craft {ATC} Challenge #12 - An Ode To Lindsey

Greetings and salutations friends.

As you may know, we lost a dear friend and team member last month.

Our lovely, kind, wonderful and amazing Lindsey.

Our ATC's for this challenge are an ode to Lindsey - we would love for you to play along and find something that inpires you on Lindsey's blog.

I used her last project as my inspiration, you can see it HERE or on the Stamp n Scrap Canada blog HERE

Lindsey was the Queen of CAS, cuteness, ink blending and puns...I tried my best to reflect that in my little ATC.

Shite I used to make this card:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Prickly Pear stamp and die set (CTMH)
• Slang Gang stamp set (Paper Smooches)
• India Black Ink (Hero Arts)
• Peacock Feathers and Mowed Lawn distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Ink blending brushes
• Fandango Pink, Forest Green, Stone Grey and Yellow Blaze markers (Bic)

We hope you will play along with us to honour and pay homage to our friend and teammate Lindsey.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT BLOG.

A Tiny Craft {ATC} Challenge #11 - Dogs and Cats

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Hope all is well in your corner of the world, thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT {ATC} design team.

By the looks of my ATC, you might think we are still celebrating all things Tim Holtz...but our theme is actually Dogs and Cats (I just really really really like Tim Holtz stuff!!!)

The little guy I used on this ATC is one of my favourites, he looks a LOT like my cousin Josh when he was little (his face not his outfit lol).

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Paper Stash Menagerie design paper (Tim Holtz)
• Paper Dolls (Tim Holtz)
• Burlap Kit (layered accents - Tim Holtz)
• Frayed Burlap distress ink (Tom Holtz)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• Enamel dot (not Tim Holtz)
• Foam tape (also not Tim Holtz)

As always we would love for you to play along with us...you can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT {ATC) BLOG.

While you are there please share some love and comments with the rest of the design team!

A Tiny Craft {ATC} Challenge #10 - All Things Tim Holtz

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the design team of A Tiny Craft {ATC}.

For this challenge we are celebrating all things Tim Holtz.

Yay!!!! My two favourite things....ATC and Tim Holtz products.

Here is a set of three ATCs that I made for the challenge:

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Gear Up design paper (Prima Marketing Inc.)
• The Journey stamp set (Tim Holtz)
• Possibilities stamp and die set (Tim Holtz)
• Black Soot distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)
• Game spinners (Tim Holtz)
• Steampunk Gears embossing folder (Darice)

As always we would love for you to play along with us.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A Tiny Craft {ATC} Blog.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team!

A Tiny Craft {ATC} Challenge #9 - Flowers

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT{ATC} design team.

We are still celebrating spring, this time around our theme is FLOWERS

We all have some of those in our stash right? Whether they are stamps, punches, dies...or in my case doodles.

That's right, for the first time EVER I drew (and coloured) the images on my ATCs.

I figure I doodle flowers ALL the time in notebooks, why not doodle an ATC.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardstock ATC base
• Black cardstock (Recollections)
• Text design paper (Simple Stories)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Crayola coloured pencils
• Fossilized Amber distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Blending Brush (Gina K Designs)
• Hexagon stencil
• Big Chat sentiment stickers (idea-ology / Tim Holtz)
• Ruler (SU)

As always we would love for you to take up the challenge and play along with us!

You can find all the details on the A TINY CRAFT {ATC} BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team.

A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge #8 - Bunnies

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

Spring is in the air and hopefully here to stay. Don't know about you - but it has felt like a longer than usual winter...

The ATC design team are back with a new challenge and we would love for you to play along.

Easter is upon us and we decided to use "bunnies" as a theme for this challenge.

Easter is the one theme I don't have many supplies for, but I do have my trusty go to bunny die which luckily enough fits on an ATC.

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• White and kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Hey Honey stamp, die and stencil (Pink & Main)
• Polynesian Purple, Fandango Pink, Key Lime and Yellow Blaze markers (Bic)
• Blending brushes
• Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Fence punch (Martha Stewart)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)

As always, we would love for you to play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A Tiny Craft Blog.

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team.

A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge #7 - Masculine

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) design team.

Our  month long challenge theme from March 15 to April 14 is masculine - and we'd love for you to play along with us.

Here's what I made:

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Upcycled cardboard ATC base
• Idea-ology pocket cards, Big Chat sentiment and Salvage Stickers Tim Holtz)
• Hey Boy chipboard stickers (Basic Grey)
• Red and blue chalk inks (Versa Magic)

As always, we would love for you to play along with us!

If you do, here are just a few things to keep in mind:

• Your card must be an ATC (card or coin)
• ATC cards are 3.5" x 2.5" and coins are 2.5" in diameter
• Your ATC must match the monthly theme in some way

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team!

I am also entering these ATC's to the "Anything Goes" challenge on the ATC Around the World Blog

A Tiny Craft - Challenge #6 - NBUS

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the design team of A TINY CRAFT.

We took a bit of a break over the holidays and new year - but we are back and creating and hope you will join us and play along!

Our theme for this challenge is NBUS (never been used stuff).

Don't know about you - but I have LOTS of **ahem** collected and never used stuff in my craft room.

For this challenge I used two new things!! The first one is the design paper from the Going Places collection from Simple Stories, the second one is The Journey stamp and die set from Tim Holtz which I picked up at least a year ago and have never used.

It's hard to see under the burlap background stamp, but I used the globe stamp to create passport stamps in the background, maybe if you close one eye and squint with the other you might be able to see them lol.

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Going Places design paper (Simple Stories)
• Bit of Burlap background stamp (Market Street Stamps)
• Frayed Burlap distress paint and ink (Tim Holtz)
• The Journey stamp and die set (Tim Holtz)
• Deep Ocean Lobster die (Memory Box)
• Kraft cardstock (Recollections)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
• Cherry Cobbler Core'dinations cardstock (SU)
• Sanding block (SU)

Amazing how many supplies you can use in a 3.5" x 2.5" space huh??

I made a set of these ATCs for the Stamplicity monthly ATC swap for February - the theme is travel - and I am totally wishing for summer and wishing I was on the Canadian east coast...

We would love for you to play along with us, you can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT BLOG.

While you are there, please share some cratfy love and comments with the rest of the design team.

Happy New Year!

Greetings, salutations and happy new year crafty friends!

Hoping that your holiday season has been enjoyable so far and that the new year is happy, healthy, safe and crafty!

I found some crafty mojo yesterday and today (not sure where THAT came from??) but I made a few ATCs for a new ATC swap I joined as well as a matching card and ATC to send some happy mail.

Here's a closer look at the ATCs:

Shite I used to make this card and ATCs:

• White cardstock (Recollections)
• Cardboard ATC base
• Picked Raspberry distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• Belle Fleur design paper (PhotoPlay)
• Paper dolls (Tim Holtz)
• Film strip ribbon (Tim Holtz)
• Sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Doily

Happy new year! Looking forward to crafting with you in 2022!!

A Tiny Craft Challenge #5 - Happy Holidays

Holiday greetings & salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A Tiny Craft (ATC) design team.

We are wishing you Happy Holidays and want you to show us what you celebrate this time of year.

My family celebrates Christmas and my house really looks like Christmas threw up in here, it's my second favourite decorating holiday after Halloween.

I made a trio of ATCs using the Fa La La collection from Bella Blvd. The little characters are just so freaking cute!

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardboard ATC bases (upcycled cereal and snack boxes)
• Fa La La design paper, cardstock stickers and Ephemera (Bella Blvd.)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• 2.5" circle punch (SU)
• Rocket Red ink (Tsukneko)

We are going to take a nice long break over the holidays so you have LOTS of time to join the fun and play along. Our next challenge will start on February 15th.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A Tiny Craft Blog.

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team.

Whatever you celebrate this time of year, we hope it is happy and safe. See ya in 2022!

A Tiny Craft - Challenge #4 - We Remember

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) design team.

Our theme this month is "We Remember"  in honour of Remembrance Day and Veterans Day.

That means we want to see something related to Remembrance or Veterans Day, poppies, military theme, lots of red...however you interpret it.

I wanted to make a very distressed, perhaps old looking, perhaps left behind looking poppy. After I  sanded the Core'dinations cardstock (both the poppy and the background piece), I spritzed and crumpled the poppy up a few times to give it a more distressed look, like maybe it had fallen off of someone's coat, or been left at a Cenotaph after a Remembrance Day ceremony.

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Black and red Core'dinations Color Core cardstock (Tim Holtz)
• Sanding block (SU)
• Swiss Dots embossing folder (ProvoCraft)
• Water spritzer (SU)
• Large heart and 3/4" circle punches (SU)
• Button brad
• Big Chat sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Black Soot distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Foam dots (Recollections)

We would love for you to join the challenge and play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of our design team and our special guest.

I'd also like to enter this ATC into the ATCs From The Heart challenge #110 - Anything Goes

A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge #3 - Halloween

Greetings and salutations crafty pals!

Thanks for popping by to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) design team.

The theme for our third challenge is Halloween.

I made cards for the first two challenges, so I thought I'd mix it up this time and make coins.

I made 4 in total (ya, Halloween and bats are my favourite!!!)... two have gone off in the mail to my design teammate  Mimi - we have a monthly ATC swap by mail....sooooooo much fun!!!!

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardboard for ATC base
• 2.5" circle punch (SU)
• Bat punch (SU)
• Thrilling design paper (Authentique)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment stickers (Tim Holtz)
• Foam dots to pop up the bats (Rcollections)
• Black Soot and Crackling Campfire distress inks (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz)

We'd love for you to join us and play along....you can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) BLOG.

While you are there please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team and our special guest!

I'd also like to submit my ATC's for the following challenges:

Anything Halloween challenge at Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

ATCs With Heart challenge #109 Halloween

Shopping Our Stash #455 - Musical Notes

 

Greetings & salutations crafty friends!

Hope all is well and safe in your corner of the world.

Thanks for stopping by to check out the latest challenge from the creative crew at SHOPPING OUR STASH.

Our challenge theme is Musical Notes - which means we want to see your music themed projects.

I recently discovered a new (to me) brand called Capitol Chic Designs and I fell in love with the diversity of their images (hooray for inclusive crafting!!!).

Here's my musical notes inspired ATC using one of their die cut stickers:

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Music sheet (ART C book pages)
• Decorative Dots embossing folder (SU)
• Pink Grapefruit chalk ink (Versa Magic)
• Die cut sticker (Capitol Chic Designs)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Ruler

As always, we would love for you to join our crew and play along.

You can find the details for the challenge on the SHOPPING OUR STASH BLOG.

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the crew!

A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge #2 - Fall / Autumn

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!!

Thanks so much for coming back to check out the latest challenge from the A TINY CRAFT (ATC) design team!

This month our theme is Fall or Autumn and the challenge is open September 15 to October 14.

Here's what I made using the Mad Plaid Fall collection from PhotoPlay.

I am THAT person who LOVES everything pumpkin / pumpkin spice flavoured this time of year, so I had to pop a latte on one of my ATCs.

Shite I used to make these ATCs:

• Cardboard ATC bases
• Mad Plaid Fall design paper and element stickers (PhotoPlay)
• Crackling Campfire distress ink (Tim Holtz)
• Mini ink blender (Tim Holtz)
• White paint pen (Artistro)
• Ruler (on the first ATC)
• Brads (super ancient from my stash I have NO idea who made them)

We would love for you to play along and make an ATC (card or coin)

You can find all the details for the challenge on the A TINY CRAFT BLOG

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team!

As it fits with their fall theme, I am also playing along with the ATC's mit Hertz challenge.

A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge #1

Greetings and salutations crafty friends!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the very first challenge from the ATC (A Tiny Craft) design team!!

Our theme for the month of August is anything goes.

Pretty easy right??

If you are not sure what an ATC (Artist Trading Card) is...here's a super brief description:

An ATC can be a card or a coin. 

Cards are 3.5 x 2.5" and coins are 2.5" in diameter.

That's it!

Other than the size, you can create / decorate them anyway you like!

I really had a lot of fun making this one, I started by painting the ATC base red, then masked to do layers of white and blue, used my stylus to make the dots on the flag (my eyesight is NOWHERE near good enough to have painted tiny stars), then I sanded it to distress it, added the paper dolls and sentiment and voila!

Here's what I made for the very first ATC challenge:

Shite I used to make this ATC:

• Cardboard ATC base
• Red, white and blue acrylic paint (Artist's Series)
• Paper Dolls (Tim Holtz)
• Small Talk Occasions sentiment sticker (Tim Holtz)
• Sanding block (SU)

We would love for you to come check out the ATC challenge blog and play along with us!

You can find all the details for the challenge, our rules and meet the rest of the design team at the ATCCB  (A Tiny Craft Challenge Blog).

While you are there, please share some crafty love and comments with the rest of the design team!