ATC Scraps Makes IG Hop - Oct 26

Hello friends, I hope you're doing great and you've had a great start to your week. I'm sharing my creations 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's). You can send them in happy mail, save them on a ring to highlight your favorite creations, swap them with friends 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.

This month I am continuing my alphabet series of ATC's with V, W & X. I think it will be fun each month finding images/dies for each letter. This month was a little more tricky trying to stick to animals and food but one out of three isn't bad lol!  One more month to go and the series will be complete. I'm excited to see them all at the end and I hope you are going to stick around to see them all too. I used mostly older, retired products but I still love them so why not use them. I hope you like them; do you have a favourite from this month's trio?

Here are my three ATC's:

A closer look at 'V':

A closer look at 'W':

and a closer look at 'X':

I decorated the backs the same as usual:

Once again I used my leftover ink blending scrap paper for my backgrounds (as they turn out really interesting and not something I would create myself) along with some stamped pieces and card strips left over from a previous project. I also added some ink blending to make the ATC's match the images a little more. I stamped the whale and vase of flower images and coloured them with Promarkers and used the matching dies to cut them out. The x-ray was a free image I found on the internet, printed out and covered with crystal glaze to give it a shiny look.  I decided to use the frames again this month and I die cut them from card to coordinate with my backgrounds and images and adhered them with liquid glue. The whale was added with foam squares and the vase and x-ray were adhered with liquid glue. I die cut the letters from coloured card, stacking them x 3 and added them to the ATC's with liquid glue; for this month I added some highlights to the letters with a white gelly roll pen. For the backs I simply ink blended the matching colours around the edges and stamped one of the ATC info stamps (that I won a few months ago) in black ink.

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

613 Avenue Create challenge - ATG optional twist think pink

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - add an animal (whale)

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal (whale)

Crafter's Cafe challenge - ATG optional no cards (I've made ATC's)

Cut It Up challenge - pretty in pink

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - 3 of something (I made 3 ATC's)

Snippets Playground challenge - use your leftovers (my ATC's are all made from scraps)

Sweet Stampin' challenge - cute creations

Tag-Along (& ATC's) challenge - all things autumn or ATG

The Little Things challenge - pumpkin and/or pink or ATG

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #ATCscrapmakes2026 or #ATCscrapmakesOctt26 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,

ATC supplies:

Lawn Fawn - whale you be mine clear stamp & die set 

Clearly Besotted - a little something clear stamp - retired

x-ray image printed from internet

MFT - little letters die set

MFT - black & white stripes 6x6 paper pad

Tracey Hey - 'words' A4 paper pad

Hunkydory - scalloped edged picture frames die set

Promarkers

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed 

ATC silicone stamp (won in a challenge)

coloured card all from my scraps bin