All Squared Off

Hi everyone, this month’s ATC challenge in the Tracy Evans AALL & Create FB group is “All Squared Off”.  I’m rather late to the party with these as I have rather allowed the month to run away from me, but loving both ATC’s and Tracy’s stamps as I do I finally gave myself a shove to join in! Participants can make any number of ATC’s within reason so this time I decided to go large and made a set of 5!! Not only will this allow me to receive a fab variety of ATC’s from other makers, but it also enabled me to use up all sorts of snippets! All the pieces of white and black card used in this project came from my snippets stash.

I cut 5 pieces of white card 3.25” x 2.25” and coloured each one by smooshing with a different colour of Lavinia Elements ink. I then stamped a background on each one using a co-ordinating colour of Versafine Clair, then stamped my focal flower in black. I stamped 5 more flowers onto various snippets of white card and water coloured them with watered down Elements inks in the same colours of the backgrounds, then die cut two stitched squares from each one, for the main flower and circles, and attached. I coloured the smaller flowers with Sakura Stardust pen to add some shimmer, then stamped the teeny sentiments onto a separate snippet of smooth black card stock and heat embossed with detail white embossing powder, cut out and attached.  Finally I edged each card with a black marker pen and matted onto 3.5” x2.5” black linen card stock, and added some teeny heart gems.

Here are some closeups.

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Stamps: AALL & Create #304 Heartfelt, #986 The Good;

Media: Lavinia Elements ink (Paprika, Blue Lagoon, Lime Punch, Violet Chalk, Russet Orange); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Tulip Red, Paradise, Verdant, Monarch, Summertime); Versamark; detail white embossing powder; Sakura Stardust pen (clear); 

Tools: Hunkydory Duo-Stitched Square dies;

Other: heart gems from my stash.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #756 - Anything Goes (2nd entry) - Blue ATC

ATC’s Around the World (November) - The Colour Blue - TOP 3

Double Trouble #154 - Keep Calm and Stitch On (2nd entry)

Dream Valley #306 - Anything Goes

Outlawz (November) - Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone

Shopping Our Stash #510 - Splish, Splash (watercolour)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Make It Sparkle (4th entry)

Snippets Playground #468 - Use Snippets

Use Your Stuff #480 - Shine Bright

Word Art Wednesday #623/624 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

It’s been a while since I made any ATC’s so making these was a lot of fun, though much more time consuming than I anticipated! Take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,