Thursday, March 13, 2014

Artist Trading Cards

ATC's aren't something I normally do.  But I'm headed to the Heirloom Rubber Stamps Show in Allentown, PA, this weekend and there's always an ATC contest.  The theme this year is Irish Luck.   The competition is fierce, so I'll be needin' a bit o' luck meself, if I'm to be winnin'.


The poker player is a stamp from Stamper's Best.  I stamped it a few times so I could fussy cut and add a few more coin piles.  My DH suggested the gold tooth. The shamrock stamp is from CTMH.
For the next ATC  I used some vintage playing card paper I found in my stash.  I cut a tag with shamrock aperture using the Artiste CTMH cricut cartridge.  Then I stamped CTMH images of a ticket and shamrock with sentiment and fussy cut.  Everything was distressed with green ink.
The cute little piggy will be lucky indeed if he collects any kisses.  After all, he is a pig.  He's a From the Heart digi image.  The sentiment is a rub on, and the shamrock is CTMH.
And the last card has gold textured paper under the white cardstock background.  I took a few different CTMH ink pads (sweet leaf, ponderosa pine, olive green, creme brulee) and smeared them across the CS before random stamping the CTMH shamrocks, punching the corners and adding a piece of sheer green ribbon.  I used a wood stamp I found in a dollar bin at ACMoore and 2nd generation stamped it on white CS.  Then I stamped half of the CTMH sentiment over it.    The second half of the CTMH sentiment was stamped over another solid shamrock.  I spritzed both with gold mist and then cut them out.  The cloud/rainbow/pot of gold is another CTMH stamp which I colored, fussy cut and then added glitter to the gold and glaze to the pot.


I am going to enter the Pot of Gold ATC in the following challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge #102 - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #168 - Anything Goes
Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge #127 - Leprechauns/Luck
City Crafters Challenge Week #202 - Beautiful Rainbows
Cuttin and Stampin Weekly Challenge 14-10 - St Patrick's/Luck
Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge #94 - Shades of Green
Through the Craft Room Door March 11th Challenge - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations Challenge #82 - Anything Goes/St. Patrick's/Green
Heart 2 Heart March Challenge - Feeling Lucky
Love to Create Challenge #106 - Anything Goes

20 comments:

  1. Great ATC!!! Thanks for playing along at Cuttin and Stampin.

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  2. Well done on all of these, Debi! Love all the details! Good luck in the ATC contest! I think the pig might get a few kisses - he's awfully cute!!!

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  3. Fabulous ATC's - best of luck in the contest! Thanks for joining us at Wicked Wednesday. :)

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  4. May I ask where you are located? I live in Breinigsville just outside of Allentown. I am also going to the heirloom show. I have not been living here for very long and would really really like to meet some new papercrafting friends. Thank you, Lynn

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  5. May I ask where you are located? I live in Breinigsville just outside of Allentown. I am also going to the heirloom show. I have not been living here for very long and would really really like to meet some new papercrafting friends. Thank you, Lynn

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  6. These are wonderful!! Fabulous work ... Thanks so much for playing along at CCCB!

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  7. Oh these are great!!!
    Thanks for sharing with us at TTCRD,
    xxx
    Riette, DT.

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  8. Love the pot 'o gold. Thanks for joining us for our "green" challenge at Loves Rubberstamps.

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  9. This is a neat ATC. Thanks for entering the Loves Rubberstamps challenge!

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  10. Fantastic ATC! Thanks so much for playing along at CCCB!

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  11. Great collection of ATC's! Thank you for sharing with us at Love to Create this week.
    Ruza, LTC Admin/Designer
    Ruza's Craft Corner

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  12. loving your atc quiet fitting to our challenge, thanks for joining us over on artistic inspirations x

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  13. OH these are fabulous! Thanks for playing with us over at Loves Rubberstamps!!!

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  14. Me again, Debi - not sure if you saw but you won over at Artistic Inspirations! Congrats, my friend. I get excited when you win!!!

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  15. Hi Debi!!! Your card is so adorable!! Thanks so much for playng this week at CCCB :-)

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  16. Marvelous ATCs, Debi! Love all of them.

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  17. Fabulous ATC's - wonderfully Irish!!!
    Thanks for sharing with us at Aud Sentiments this fortnight.
    Hugs,
    Sandy

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  18. Great job, I have never done any ATC's before but these are great! Thanks for playing along with Heart 2 Heart challenges!

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  19. Awesome cards, love all the detail!! Thanks for playing at H2H

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