A Year of ATC's - January

I am a part of the monthly Kopperhead swap. At the beginning of the year, she issued a "sidebar" challenge to make 12 ATC's for each month of the year. We were given all year to get them done. So, me being me, I HAD to sign up - I've completed 4 of the sets - 8 more to go before the end of the year. 

January

I love this saying - "Winter is Better When we Nestle Together".  I found the stamp in the Michael's clearance bin.  I took the blue and the white paper and glued it together with my ATG and ran them through my Cuttlebug snowflake folder.  I added clear and light blue skittles.  The snowflakes were punched from the really cute MS snowflake punch.

A Year of ATC's - February

February - Love is in the Air

 

These are for February and called "Love is in the Air."  I used the Cricut cartridge Love Struck with a glitter pen purchased from Chomas Creations.  With the proper adapter, you can substitute this glitter pen in place of the cutting blade, and it draws rather than cuts.  I thought my Cricut would chew up the paper if I tried to cut something so intricate, but with the pen it is a beautiful glittery pink image - I then cut the heart out by hand.  The black and white paper is from me & my BIG ideas.  I cut black mirror paper slightly larger than the white heart from the same Love Struck cart, and then used a pop dot to raise the pink heart over the black mirror. The lace was from my stash.

A Year of ATC's - April

April - "April Showers"

This is a cute little Penny Black stamp entitled "rainin' daisies" which I colored with copics.

A Year of ATC's - July

"Summer Dreamin"

I inked white cardstock with two shades of pink and one blue, then sewed a border around the edges with yellow thread.  The yellow sun, pineapple drink and beach chair were cut from Cricut's Life is a Beach.  I don't know the name of the orange paper - I bought two single pieces - but it is gritty and rough, and reminded me of wooden chairs.

Trees!

Our task for a Kopperhead swap was to make anything relating to trees.  Using fuzzy fiber, I sewed an outline of trees onto ATC's. 

Home Sweet Home ATC's

These are a couple ATC's made for a Cricut MB swap - the theme was "Home Sweet Home".