Katrina's ATC Folder

 

ATC Folder - If you make or collect ATCs its nice to have something to keep them in to show your friends your collection. This is a lovely way to keep a themed collection together too.

OK you will need-
some card stock,
Woodware Vellum envelope ATC kit,
Crafthouse Press collage sheets - Brodies Imperial collage and American prescription,
U mount Vintage games stamp set,
Distress ink - old paper and Tea die,
old book papers,
Imagination Inkadinks - brights
Alterations Die Chip Block alphabet

To make -
1. From your card stock cut a piece 8 3/4 by 3 inches, a piece 3 3/4 by 3 inches and a third piece 5 1/2 by 3 inch
2. Take your 8 3/4 by 3 piece and score at 4 and 4 1/2 inches. Fold. This is your back and cover. Take the 5 1/2 by 3 piece, with the 3 inch being the height, score and fold every 1/2 inch to form a fan fold. this is the bottom of your folder.
3. Use your Distress inks to age all your card pieces and the stamp the checker board from the U mount stamp set onto the front cover. Using a foam sponge apply the blueberry ice ink from the inkadinks around the outside edges. Cover the reverse with book papers.
4. Use double sided tape to attach the back cover to the fan folded piece. Cut 2 small strips of card and attach them to the front of the fan fold, fold around then back up the back of the fan fold to keep it all under control. Then attach the 3 3/4 by 3 pieces of card stock to the front of the fan fold.
5. Carefully take out 5 of the vellum envelopes, the library card style ones, from the set, make them up and then attach with double sided tape to the back of each fold.
6. Now to decorate the front. Cut out and distress with ink the 2 playing cards from the collage sheet. Stamp onto brown paper the middle part of the Bingo card and the heart and club images from the stamp set with brown ink. Cut out Bingo card strip and use a round punch to cut out heart and club images.Stick the cards and Bingo strip to front cover.
7. Cut another strip of card to make the closer, bend around and stick to the back of inside cover. To this attach the heart and club images and A T C cut from the Alterations alphabet.
All you need to do now is fill it with ATCs!! If you want to use more envelopes, then just make a longer fan fold base. I have made a larger one using little brown envelopes to keep my Cinema tickets in, decorated accordingly.

Glaeken & Lady Audrey

Two more fabulous projects from Katrina using stamps from the new Octopode Factory range;

Glaeken Card

You will need :-

Glaeken stamp from The Octopede Factory

U - mount Vintage Treasures stamp set

U- mount Vintage Illision stamp set

7 Gypsies Steampunk set

Bo Bunny 6x6 Time piece paper pad collection

What ever you like to colour in with

Distress ink - brushed corduroy

Koi water brush medium

1. Stamp out Glaeken, colour him in and cut him out.

2. From the Vintage Treasures set stamp out using the distress ink the grid and the saying on to white card. Immediately after take your water brush and draw the ink in from the sides. If you want more colour just brush your water brush over the ink pad lightly and paint it onto your stamped image, that will give you a darker colour. Leave to dry. I then stamped the little light bulb in the top left corner and from the 7 Gypsies set the do not disturb in the bottom left and the plate IX on a separate scrap of card, again do the same with your water brush.

3. From the Vintage Illisions set stamp out the larger of the train drawing with the distress ink and again pull the ink in from the edges with your water brush. Leave to dry.

4. Cut out all your stamped images then put the card together. Use up all the scraps for the background for this card, tear 3 strips of the Bo Bunny papers and glue them to a card blank. Stick on the grid with Glaeken on top and the other images at the side as in the picture. You could add a sentiment instead of the saying if you wanted to.

Lady Audrey Card

You will need :-

Lady Audrey stamp from The Octopode Factory
Black Ink
What ever you like to colour with
Bo Bunny 6x6 Timepiece collection paper pad
Alterations die Gadget Gears
An alternative to the mat shape I used you could use either Alterations die mini Baroque or Ornamental
Screw head brads by Creative Expressions - coming soon!

1. Cover your card blank with one of the papers from the paper pad.

2. Cut out with your dies a mat and a couple of the small gears from another of the papers ( great to use up your scraps)

3. Stamp out Lady Audrey colour her in and cut her out.

4. Cut a couple of thin strips from the stripy paper, I added a die cut buckle to match her hair but any other embellishment would do.

5. To put the card together glue the mat to the middle of the card, a strip of paper top and bottom, Lady Audrey on top the mat and the cogs either side of the mat with a brad inside. There is plenty of room to add a sentiment if needed.