A Year of ATCs? - Day 202

Today I am up to Day 202 of my 'Year of ATCs?'

Today my ATC celebrates Jane Austen.

This post recognises the 200th anniversary of her death - she died on 18/7/1817 in Winchester aged 41, and was buried on 24/7/1817 in Winchester Cathedral.

Almost exactly a year ago I visited Chawton House in Chawton, Hampshire.
This was where Jane Austen lived for the last 8 years of her life and it was here that she prepared all her manuscripts for publication. The first, 'Sense and Sensibility', was published in 1811 'by a Lady'
The portrait of Jane Austen on my ATC came from literature from Chawton House.

The ATC comprises a scrap of gelli plate background followed by a rectangle of writing - taken from an image of a letter written by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra.

I then added the portrait and the quote from 'Sense and Sensibility'.

 Happy Crafting!

A Year of ATCs? - Day 201

Today I am up to Day 201 of my 'Year of ATCs?' - woohoo!

Like yesterday I have used one of my Gelli plate backgrounds.
 (I used acrylic paint and stencils and overprinted with a circular lid when dry).

I ran this through my printer and added a digi stamp - 'Emerging'
- from Smeared Ink who unfortunately are no longer around

  
I trimmed the image to just slightly smaller than the 2.5 by 3.5 inches size of an ATC
and attached this to a scrap of card from my stash.

I will link this to Dream in Darkness
 July Challenge


Happy Crafting!

A year of ATCs? - Day 200

Today I am up to Day 200 of my 'Year of ATCs?' - woohoo!

Today I have used one of my Gelli plate backgrounds.
 (I used acrylic paint and stencils and overprinted with a circular lid when dry).

I ran this through my printer and added a digi stamp - 'hallokitty'
- from Smeared Ink who unfortunately are no longer around

  
I trimmed the image to just slightly smaller than the 2.5 by 3.5 inches size of an ATC
and attached this to a scrap of card from my stash.

Happy Crafting!

A Year of ATCs? - Day 199

At the weekend I was lucky enough to meet up with some friends
 for an impromptu crafting session.

One of the things we had a go at were some animation cards.
Firstly we made a little card using Uchi's animation stamps, grid and dies.

Here are some photos trying to illustrate the card:

 I am not sure if you can see how the images change as the card opens...

The next thing we tried was an animation card using Stampin Up

 stamps and die cut animation grid.

This time the butterfly images are stamped on card which slides up and down in a sleeve.

Again the photos don't really show the fluttering.

This is how I finished my card:

 Finally I decided to try and make an animation ATC 
with a scrap of Uchi's animation grid (left from the first card)
and a sun stamp.
I made an ATC size sleeve with the animation grid behind a square aperture in the front.

I stamped the sun stamp on a piece of white card which slides inside the sleeve.

 Moving the sun image side to side with the tab makes it move...

I decorated the front of the sleeve with some scraps of DP from my stash cut with two dies from the Tonic ATC Collection.

  
I trimmed the slider as shown

This is my ATC for Day 199!

Happy Crafting!

A Year of ATCs? - Day 198

Today I am up to Day 198 of my 'Year of ATCs?'

My make today is a Pocket Letter using an image from Fabrika Fantasy
Fairy Tale Unicorn

Using Serif Craft Artist 2, I combined the image several times with a paper from
Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Bokeh papers

I looked for lots of unicorn quotes and added one to each image.
I used dies from the Tonic ATC Collection to cut each image and a purple backing card.

I then put my ATCs is a pocket letter folder:

Happy Crafting!