This is actually one of the ATCs I made for Fiona’s ATC Club swap for August. The stamp I used on the base card is from the “Ebony and Ivory Set” – I stamped it with. The greeting is embossed with “Cocoa Bean” embossing powder. The base card “Vanilla” Bazzil, and the layered cards are ”Olive” from card essentials and “Vanilla” Bazzil. I embellished the card with brown rick rack ribbon and sponged the edges with “Gold” paint dabber or “Dark Brown” fluid chalk.
The base card is oatmeal and the other two layers of card are “olive” from the new Earth Tones card essentials and a shade of blue Bazzil. I stamped the dragonfly from the “Springtime Set” randomly over the layered cards with Dark Brown Fluid chalk ink. I then embossed the “Happy Father’s Day” greeting in gold and then stamped the dragonfly again in gold. I then sponged the edges in Colourbox gold. I felt it needed more glitz so I lightly sponged Colourbox gold over the ATC.
I made this ATC today after watching a couple Tim Holtz videos on You Tube and his website. The base card is “Olive” from the new card essentials Earth Tones range. The “Dare to Dream” greeting is stamped on a piece of white card I distressed using “Fired Brick”. First step was to scrunch the card up tightly and then rub the inkpad directly over it. Then I spritzed it with water and ironed it dry. Another thing I learnt from the video was that you can emboss distress inks – so I embossed the greeting. I attached the greeting to a piece of “Coffee” card from the Earth Tones range. I then embellished with a split pin and turn mount from the Aged Copper collection. I stuck the turn mount down with some “Glossy Accents”.
I used two shades of blue Bazzil that Kaszazz sell – but I must admit I don’t know what the exact shades are. I rounded the corners of the base card and attached two lengths of 1/2″ Denim twill ribbon. I stamped the ribbon with the small flourish stamp. I stamped the greeting and the roman clock also using Fluid Chalk “Charcoal”. I sponged the edges of both cards with the same inkpad. I embellished the cards with gold mini round fasteners, before magic mounting the smaller card onto the bigger one.
What a great week – as you know I love making ATCs (Artist Trading Cards). Here is the card I made for Day 1.
Base card is Pomegranate (From new card essentials “Earth Tones”. A piece of “Stripes” from the “Spice” SB papers has been torn and edged with Espresso paint dabber. “Happy Father’s Day” stamped in distress ink “Walnut Stain” and edge sponged in “Peeled Paint”. Final touch is two mini aged copper safety pins.
As well as being involved in the ATCs swaps in the Kaszazz Consultants’ Yahoo group, I’ve also now joined Fiona’s ATC club. I’ve just finished making the ATCs for August – the theme is Father’s Day. I’m not putting a photo up yet – I’ll do that after Fiona sends my set of different ATCs back to me.
There are 4 of us in the club so far, so that means I’ve had to make 4 identical 3 1/2″ by 2 1/2″ cards using Kaszazz products and stamps. I’ll post these to Fiona on Monday as she is the club host. When she receives the ATCs from the other two members she sorts the ATCs so that we get one of each, and then she posts them back to us. I can’t wait to see what creative ideas Fiona and the other two members have come up with!
If you would like to join the club you can contact me (leave a comment here, contact me via Facebook or my email) or you can contact Fiona directly via her blog – the link is on the right hand side of my blog – “paper creations with fi”.
Your ATCs can be as simple or ornate as you would like them to be. There are photos of ATCs in this blog just click on the ATCs links in the category and tags boxes on the right hand side of the blog. Happy crafting!
This ATC features the stamps from the Spring Time Set. I stamped the small and large flowers with fluid chalk inkpads. I then applied 6mm super tape down the left hand side and then embossed the strip using silver embossing powder. I stamped the dragonfly on a seperate piece of card, embossed it and then cut it out and mounted it with magic mount. The final touch was a dab of ice stickles in the middle of the flowers.
ATCs done by myself and the other nine Kaszazz consultants
I belong to an online Kaszazz consultants group and each month an ATC swap is held. (For info on what an ATC is click on the page link at the top of this blog.)
The March swap theme was “Memories”, and we were to think about the Victorian bushfire victims when creating our cards. Below is the card I made…along with another from the swap that featured the same stamp. Mine is the one on the left. I used “Ebony and Ivory” cardstock, Java Bazzil, dark brown fluid chalk ink pad, brown ribbon with cream stitching and copper embellishments.
Same stamp - different look and feel.
Here’s all the cards from the swap. Its interesting to see all the different interpretations. All the cards are made using Kaszazz products.
The nine ATCs for March 2009
