Artistic Trading Cards

Hi All, it's Vicki with today's project.  Today I went for a few ATC's [Artist Trading Cards].  While these normally are made to be traded, I make mine just for fun.

I started with a sheet of card stock 6x8 and penciled off 3" x 2" squares.  I stamped and clear embossed the music sheet from Love Notes covering all of the penciled squares.

Once embossed, I started sponging on a few colors from the Catherine Pooler Carnival inks, and did some stamping with the Heart to Heart stamp for a semi black background.  I then cut the ATC's to size [3x2].  I ended up using the 4 from the middle of my master sheet.  I liked the embossed image the most on the middle four.

Using the Heart Note Dies, I cut 3 of each in black card stock, and the top layer in blue, and glued all together.  I like how sturdy these added embellishments turned out.

That's it for today.  Do you ever make ATC's?  They are like making a mini card front.  Really fun for a change. 

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A Tropical Cocktail.

Hello, it’s Michelle here today with a fun tropical margarita card for you!

The "Salty" stamp set and the "Margarita Glass Die" is so much fun to use and is perfect for any occasion in my opinion!  I decided to add a little tropical feel to my card by adding some flowers along  the rim of the glass.  I used the "4 Petals" dies and sponged some yellow ink along the edge to make them look like a frangipani.

I started by die cutting the margarita glass and then placed it in my MISTI to stamp it.  You could also stamp it first and then die cut.

Next I sponged some Catherine Pooler inks and used the Bubbly Stencil over the top using the same ink colors.

Then I die cut some flowers using the 4 Petals die and ink blended some of the yellow ink around the edges and added them to the rim of the margarita glass.

I added some gold glitter pen in the middle of the petals and adhered the glass to my card panel with dimensional foam tape.  I stamped the sentiment, fussy it cut it out and added it over the stem of the glass.

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Happy Birthday

Hi All, it's Vicki here today from All I Do Is Stamp.

For today's card, I used a lot of CAS-ual Fridays products to make this rather CAS card.

I started by WOW embossing [Neutral Ultra Shimmer Embossing Glitter] the Full on Floral image onto a panel of white card stock.  Using [most] of the Catherine Pooler Carnival Inks, I sponged on color.  Once that was done, I used a couple of the dies from the Pinked Slimline Dies set, to cut out the pinked circle, and smaller circles.

I stamped and cut the small the dragonfly from Everyday Dragonflies stamps [with matching dies], and just colored the heart body with red ink.  [I think the black and white pops against the colorful background, so I left that alone.]  For the last step, I cut 2 white, and 1 mint layer of the Happy Birthday Die, glued the layers together, and adhered it to the card base. Once completed, I felt the top looked too empty, so I used some twine for the added bow.  End result, a fun, colorful birthday card for my stash.

I hope you enjoyed my card for today.  Remember, if you use my code [below], you can save 15% off your CAS-ual Fridays purchase.

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