ATC WITH SUMMER THEME
Today I want to share a collection of ATC or Artistic Trading Cards that I made using Summer as theme. For this I created beautiful embellishments using White Makin’s Clay®.
Product list:
- Makin’s Clay® – White
- Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat
- Makin’s Clay Roller and Cutters Set
- Makin’s Clay Push Mold – Sea Shells
- Iridescents Pains by Ann Butler Designs
- Stencil Enchanted Vine Medium by Rebecca Baer Inc
- Fireworks by Imagine Craft
- Card Stock: Very Vanilla and Island Indigo
- Beacon 3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue
- Stamps
- VersaFine Onix Ink
Instructions:
The first step is creating the embellishments for your ATC’s. For this take small amounts of white clay and smooth it with your hands. If you want you can do it with the roller too. Take the Sea Shells Push Mold and press the clay into the each design starting in the center and working toward the edges. Remove the excess clay and either gently bend your mold to lift your tools free while the clay is fresh, or let the clay dry in the mold then remove.
When the embellishments are totally dry, just remove them from the mold and sand or cut the excess of clay from the borders with scissors.
Now it is time to give color to these. In this opportunity I used Iridescents Paints from Ann Butler Designs in six different colors.
These paints dried very quickly and gave me a beautiful shine.
Now that my embellishments are ready is time to create the ATC’s bases. For this I used a Very Vanilla card stock and Island Indigo Card stock. I stenciled the entire very vanilla layer using a medium size stencil called Enchanted Vine from Rebecca Baer Inc. with different colors of Fireworks from Imagine Crafts.
Then I cut the very vanilla layer using THIS TEMPLATE and pasted over the card bases that I cut with the same template using Island Indigo Card Stock.
To finalize the ATC’s I stamped different sentiments over the decorated layer and then pasted the embellishments using 3 in 1 Beacon Advanced Craft Glue.
This is a very simple idea that you can use as inspiration because we have a lot of molds to choose from, and you can create your ATC’s with any other theme and make something special for your swaps or journals. I hope you are inspired with my tutorial and comeback soon to share with us!
