During our Winter Stamp-a-thon, Lyn's challenge was to make ATC Coins, which are 2.5" circle pieces of art you can trade with other artists. I didn't have time to create any during the challenge window, but couldn't wait to try them out once I found a little me time!
At the end of the session I had six ATC Coins. I started with a 8.5 x 11 piece of cardstock and coated with one layer of gesso to prime it for paint. Then I squirted on some distress paint in chipped sapphire, evergreen bough, salty ocean, and tumbled glass, blending in with my fingers. I then added some brick stenciling randomly across the page with white Dylusions paint. Once this was dry, I randomly added bits of stamping using the Texture Tiles 1 set and archival ink. When everything was dry, I cut six circles from the page with a 2.5" circle die, placing the die where I thought it would give the most interest. These top two coins are made with the Birthday Borders set and have already been sent out for trade! The sweeter sentiment is from the So Sweet Cocoa set and much love is from Sentimental Mash-up.
The rest of my coins use the adorable new Springtime set. I stamped the butterflies and boots a few times on cardstock, then colored with Copics and fussy cut. For the spring has sprung coin, I then colored in the white space on the image cut out so it appeared more natural. I softened the coin up a bit with some white stamping with the hearts from Texture Tiles 5, then stamped my sentiment in archival ink. The dream big sentiment is from Dragonfly Dreams and I stamped the butterfly in archival ink directly on the coin, then cut out the butterfly I had colored minus the antennae and popped up the wings.
The thinking of you sentiment is from Birds & Blooms and I used the same treatment with the butterflies, adding a bit of thin washi tape to break up my design. My final coin uses the lovely boot image and I paired it with a sentiment from the Sentimental Wordfetti set.
I traded a couple of these, but also thought they would work great on card fronts, so created a couple cards using them.
For this one, I matted the coin with a black scalloped circle, then divided my pattern paper in half, adding a die cut border to break things up. I stamped the flowers from the boot image at the bottom and lightly colored in, then added a few more butterflies to finish off the card.
My second card uses the same scalloped circle to mat the coin, but a few more layers of patterned paper. I stamped one with the dots from Texture Tiles 5 and then finished off with a butterfly accent.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulously creative day!
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1 comment:
Lovely layering on these ATCs, I've never tried this size before!
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