Create and Share: Artist Trading Cards
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Cheiron Brandon to our blog! Have you ever made ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards)?! It’s kind of like Baseball/Sports card trading but with our crafty friends and if you go to a crop you can come back with a gorgeous assortment of ATC’s from new and old friends! Cheiron is showcasing a really lovely design she made using the new Love Notes design! Read on to learn more and enjoy!
Hi there crafty friends, it’s Cheiron Brandon here with another Tim Holtz project for you. This month I am joining an ATC (Artist Trading Cards) swap with some other artists, and I thought it would be fun to show you how my ATCs came together! What is an artist trading card you might ask? It is a small piece of art that is traded by artists either in person or online. There is really only one specification for these cards and that is that they are sized 2.5″ x 3.5″.
I wanted to play around my Tim Holtz Love Notes set and make a set of cards that I hope would be inspiring to other artists as well. To create my cards I cut the bases of my ATCs from Distress Black Heavystock. It is possible to get 10 cards from one sheet of 8 ½ x 11 cardstock if you cut your paper in three strips lengthwise. One strip will be 3 ½ inches wide and the other two will be 2 1/2 inches wide. (Remember, the dimensions of ATCs are 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches). Next, cut four 2 1/2 inch pieces from your 3 ½ inch strip. Cut three 3 ½ inch pieces from each 2 ½ inch strip. You’ll have just a tiny piece of extra paper at the end of each strip.
I cut 10 white cards to go on top of the black ATCs from Distress Watercolor cardstock and made these 2 3/8 x 3 3/8. To add color to my Distress Watercolor Cardstock I sprayed some Speckled Egg Distress Stain and some Snow Flurries Distress Mica Stain onto my glass mat and sprayed it with water using a Distress Sprayer. I picked up the color by pressing my paper into the mat, drying it with a heat tool and then picking up some more color and drying again. You can do this until you are happy with the layers.
Once all my cards were dry, I stamped a sentiment from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Love Notes stamps. Then I inked the edges of each card with Black Soot Distress Ink using a foam blending tool and then adhered them to the Distress Black Heavystock. To finish my cards, I stamped one of the hearts from the Love Notes set with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide and then embossed it with Picked Raspberry Distress Embossing Glaze. I cut all of the hearts out and adhered them to the ATCs with foam squares. Now all that is left to do is sign the backs. Have you traded ATCs before? I hope you will try these out for yourself!
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THREE gorgeous birthday cards by Nichol Spohr using different color schemes: Making the Cut
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! I’m delighted to welcome back special guest Nichol Spohr with this GORGEOUS floral trio of tone-on-tone Birthday cards that not only include die cutting elements but beautiful stamping, stenciling, and more! Products highlight in these cards include our new Fine Floral Stem dies, CZ Design Birthday Basics stamps and dies, our Mosaic Tulips layering stencil set, and a gorgeous assortment of our Pawsitively Dazzling Gems in Cool Tones, Sunbeam, and Clear! Be sure to watch the video for all the details, and enjoy!
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Easter is On Its Way!
Hi friends! Happy Friday! I’m delighted to share this DARLING card design by Audrey Tokach showcasing some brand new cute sets from Lawn Fawn! Read on to learn more and enjoy!
Hello friends! Audrey here with a fun Easter themed card to share with you using products from the new Lawn Fawn Spring release! To create this card, I started by water coloring a background using watercolor paper and Ranger Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and Twisted Citron. When it was dry, I die cut it with the largest die in the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangles die set. I stamped and colored images from the Lawn Fawn Hay There, Hayrides! and Hay There, Hayrides Bunny Add on using Copic Markers and die cut the images with the coordinating dies.
To further set the scene, I added a trio of diecut clouds using the Lawn Fawn Simple Puffy Clouds dies. I popped the images up with foam tape, and stamped a sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Carrot ‘Bout You stamp set onto an Everyday Sentiment Banners die cut, and popped that up underneath the scene. Before adding the panel to an A2 card base, I added a strip of pretty striped paper from the new Rainbow Ever After 6×6 petite paper pad to the left edge of card base, then adhered the panel with foam tape for added dimension. To finish off the card, I added some white gel pen accents and a scattering of tiny clay hearts from Pretty Pink Posh.
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