My first ATC

This morning I woke much earlier than I should have (7:31) 

Puttzed around for a while, and then hit the studio 

I like to work in there while The Price is Right is on!

By the way it's Plinko Week!  Every day they are having Plinko!

I digress!  Ok, so I have wanted to try an ATC for a while

What is an ATC you may ask??  It's an Artist Trading Card: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches

It's the size of a baseball card! 

I got my sketch from Angie Delarie's Friday Sketch and inspiration from
Wicked Wednesday ATC "blues" challenge

 

I also wanted to use metal for the challenge over at All Sorts Challenge "heavy metal"

It's kind of hard to see, but the shiny stuff behind batty is actually aluminum tape that I used my

alcohol inks on, and the button is made of metal as well... Plus of course the brad in the middle of the

flower is metal too! WOW, lots of "heavy metal" going on here!

Ok, so batty can be found in Angie Delarie's shop! She was colored with my copics, with a little 

glitter accent for the bow!

The flower was made using Kraft Glassine, alcohol inks, and my 

tattered flowers die cut (the smallest flower!) with some perfect pearls on the edges of the flower!

I just LOVE instagram!

Ok, ok, and here is batty's close up

Hope you're having a crafty Monday! 

Also entering this little beaut into Card Makin Mama's Try something new challenge! 

Please check out all these wonderful challenge blogs! 

And remember I'll be posting to a BRAND SPANKIN new challenge blog starting September 2nd!!!

Anything But a Card will be a fun challenge blog where you can show off

all your creations (as long as they aren't cards!) 

So get your supplies ready, we'll be doing some super fun things over there!

Stars and Stripes

Quickie 4th of July Project! 

My supervisor at work LOVES to decorate for any holiday!  So she ran to Michaels on her lunch break yesterday, and brought back these fun stars! 

This morning she handed them out to everyone and said "create!"

So create I did! 

This is the front and back or back and front of my star

I used my ranger inks with punchinella and then made some stars punched out of cardboard painted gold...
The inked dots are outlined in red glitter glue!

Then on the other side I drew lines using my copics and other markers, and a little bit of glitter glue, and a bunch of imagination!

It was super fun to have craft day at work! 

Tomorrow I'll be featuring a pinwheel garland! (or maybe even later today if I can't wait to post it!)

Happy Independence day!  Thank a service person for all they've done for this great country today and every day!