Anti-Valentine ATC

Courtesy of Clear it Out Challenge

I was over the moon to win lots of images from Bugaboo Stamps!!

While I was choosing my digis I came across a framed Stella Valentine

 and this is what I am going to use first - in an ATC...

The theme is 'Anti-Valentine' so first I used a Cuttlebug heart embossing folder to emboss in black card. I matted this and the digi onto red card.

 I then added some colour to the image with Promarkers and fixed in place

 - the final touch was a few gems.

I am going to submit this ATC to Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge 124

Many of my friends ask me what I do with my ATC's - well many are for 'swaps',

some go in my collection files, and some end up as the motif on a card...

I decided to use this one in the following sketch:

I changed the orientation of the card and the main rectangle and used more of my embossed hearts as the bottom edging. As the sentiment was already in my image, that element of my card became the gems...

 I will link this to Stella Says Sketch #204

Happy Crafting!!