My first true attempt at ATCs - cardstock background with beads and buttons glued to make a skull image. I used glitter glue to make the bows.

I attempted to create a tie-dye sort of background. Then I used sharpies to draw the peace sign and glued on a funky bead.

I used playing cards for these. I painted the card with gesso - four layers, alternating direction to give the impression of canvas. I brushed on light blue watercolor and stamped images of baked goods. I then glued strips of cookie recipes (title, 2-3 ingredients and 1-2 lines of instruction). I coated the entire card with mod podge to seal the paper.

This was a fun ATC to make and somewhat incomplete. I knew I wanted to stamp using bleach. I was so focused on that that when my stamping was done, I didn't have a plan how to finish the cards. I ended up gluing some thick clear glitter with the hope it would like the snowmen had been in a storm.

These came out so cute. The background started as white cardstock that I stamped with a variety of Asian inspired stamps (in gold, red and sepia). I folded little origami coats and outfits to attach to the cards.

I used black cardstock and origami paper to make the background. The image was cut from postcards and trimmed with scraps of textured yarn.

I am so in love with these little paper flowers. They are so easy and fun to make. It's just hearts cut out of paper (origami paper here), given little curls and folds then glued together. I found the idea on the Disney website. Since the theme was poetry, I finished the card with a line from a poem (all pertaining to flowers).

Layers of origami paper with a butterfly punched out of a postcard.

Background made by folding strips of magazine pages to create a textured background. Top layer is cardstock that I cut the image out.

This was made by doodling in glue and covering the glue with salt. When it was dried, I added watercolor. The design was more about experimenting than creating an actual design.

This was a hard and fun one to make. I designed and created each die cut. The leaves and pumpkins were coloring pages that I shrank down and printed then colored with pencils. The gravestones were cut from magazine pages. The clock was my attempt at adding some steampunk and was a clipart I shrunk. The banner was one I designed on the computer and then printed.

The clip art in the center is a coloring sheet from Dover that I put into paint and spent days coloring each pixel. I then printed and cut out the piece. The cardstock underneath bled through which was irritating but not all of the cards had bleeding. Between the cardstock and clip art is a piece of lace that had spiders and a web.