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

Colorful Options challenge - Guest Designer

Good Morning lovely friends.  I'm excited to be a guest designer over at Colorful Options challenge this month.  They always have really fun colour boards to inspire you and this month is no different.  

When I saw the colour board my eye was immediately drawn to the cat so I knew I wanted to use an image of a cat on my card.  I had a quick rummage through my stash and found this line art image that I don't think I've ever used before.  

Here is my card:

A closer look at the gorgeous image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using a fun stencil and the brightest inks I had I made my vibrant background.  I added some water droplets to add some interest to my background and once dry I stamped the cat line art image in versafine black ink over top.  One of the sentiments that came with cat stamp was 'you had me at meow' which wasn't really something I would use but I love the font so I found another stamp in my stash that said happy birthday to you and with some masking replaced the word you with the meow word so the sentiment now says 'happy birthday to meow' which I thought was really fun.  I heat embossed the sentiment onto black card with white embossing powder and used a strip sentiment die to cut it out.  I added onto the colourful background with foam squares.  The panel was added to the card base with foam tape.  I tried quite a few different embellishments but nothing looked right so I left it clean and simple.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using the same stencil and inks just stencilled the fun shape into the left corner of the panel.  I stamped a simple sentiment in black ink and added the panel onto my card base with double sided tape.  The card turned out just the way I wanted and it's vibrant, fun and clean & simple.  I hope you like it too.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes option get well cards

Addicted to CAS challenge - pun

Crafter's Cafe challenge - ATG option rainbows/lots of colours

Crafty Animals challenge - must include an animal

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - happy birthday

Everybody Art challenge - ATG

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - ATC and/or CAS

Scrapping4Fun challenge - ATG + stamping

Stamping Sensations challenge - ATG option animal magic 

I would like to thank Makira and all the team over at Colorful Options for having me as a guest this month and I can't wait to see your interpretations of the colour board.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today; I'll be back on Thursday with my DT card for the Krafty Chicks challenge.  Until then have a great start to your week. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Picket Fence Studios - Sophie kitten stamp - retired

MFT - watercolour wash free form stencil - oos ? retired

Gina K Designs - inks - cherry red, tangerine twist, wild dandelion, lucky clover, blue raspberry, wild lilac, white pigment ink

Pretty Pink Posh - let's party stamp (for part of the sentiment)

MFT - smitten kitten stamp (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine - onyx black ink pad