ATC Scrap Makes IG Hop - October

Hello friends, I hope you're doing great and you've had a great start to your week. I'm sharing my card for this month's ATC Scrap Makes IG Hop. We challenge you to use leftover die cuts, sentiments and card stock to create Artist Trading Cards (ATC). You can send them in happy mail, save them on a ring to highlight your favorite creations, swap them with friends, leave them on a co-worker’s desk, or add sweet notes to a lunchbox. Join us if you like; the only rules are to use scraps and create cards that are 2.5” x 3.5” in size. We share our little snippets of happiness on the third Tuesday of the month.  

I found lots of pre-coloured images and backgrounds that I had made and put to one side for another day so decided to try and use up as many of them as I could.  As you can imagine I ended up making an eclectic mix of different styles and occasions but I think they turned out super cute.  I hope you like them too.  Warning: lots of photos today as I made 7 ATC's and I want them all to have their chance to shine lol!  I do love them all but I think my favourites are the coffee & doughnut one or the girlfriends one - let me know if you have a favourite.

Here are my ATC's:

so here is a closer look at each of the ATC's:

Here's what I started with:

So I began by cutting down all the backgrounds to 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" which is the only rule with ATC's, everything else is fair game!  I also die cut or fussy cut the images ready to use.  As I have the pre-made ATC's to use I adhered all the backgrounds onto these cards for some extra stability using double sided tape and liquid glue.  I dug out all the stamp sets to see if there were sentiments I could use and for most of them I did use the sentiments from the sets but for the dog ones I used sentiments from a different set as it didn't have any sentiments with it.  I added the images with a mix of liquid glue and foam squares and either stamped the sentiments directly onto the backgrounds or added sentiment strips.  I finished off with some extra die cuts and my ATC's were done.  I think it's pretty self explanatory what I did to them but if you want more info just drop me a comment and I'll get back to you.  

I would like to enter my ATC's into the following challenges:

* to be updated * 

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #ATCscrapmakes2025 or #ATCscrapmakesoct25 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.

I really appreciate you stopping by today.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Jane's Doodles - donuts! & girlfriends stamp sets - store now closed

Picket Fence Studios - puppy love mini stamp 

Paper Smooches - hot concoctions (for coffee mug)

MFT - farm friends (for sheep/cow & sentiments)

MFT - grassy fields die

MFT - cutest clouds ever dies

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6 (for hearts)

MFT - four legged friends stamp (for sentiments on puppy ATC's)

MFT - mini doily circles dies

Gina K Designs - a very silly season stamp & die*

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments die*

Gina K Designs - tapestry embossing folder*

Gina K Designs - double BG 1/grip mat*

Gina K Designs - snowflakes embossing folder*

Promarkers

Lawn Fawn - stitched woodgrain backdrop die

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

coloured card from my scraps bin

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Thank you x