It’s a nice feeling to get back into the rhythm of my life after the holidays and traveling! 

  These ATC’s are for my Yahoo ATC World group.  It was fun to come up with ideas using corrugated paper (cardboard to those of us who are older). The corrugated heart above (Cuttlebug ) seemed to fit with this collage backing, courtesy of Somerset Studios.

The backing for this ATC is a Kleenex box.  It is a shame to throw away boxes that have such great patterns on them and they are very sturdy.  I like the color combo as well.  Not conventional but fun.

I am being very brave and actually using the copper guilded paper that I got from Paper Source a while back for the backing.  I really love this stuff and will be sad when it is all used up.  The corrugated honeycomb (Cuttlebug) was a good place into which I could tuck copper embossed hearts.

The background for this ATC is a relativewly new texture plate by Cuttlebug. In the past my Swiss Dot plate has been the most used but I have a feeling this larger dot will be my new favorite.  Some Stickles, ribbon and red ink finished this card. Funky but fun!

The flower spray is a die cut from Silhouette, with Stickles adorning it.  I should have done more for the background but didn’t think about it until after I had sent the cards.  Oh well, sometimes that happens.

This last one is on the home page of the group- yipee!  I got the idea for cutting the heart shape out of the upper layer of the cardboard from the book Collage Lab by Bee Shay. I covered the whole thing with Lumiere Grape and then dry brushed the card with Burnt Orange Lumiere.  I didn’t want to use any glue so I first cut 3 thin copper tubes just a tad shorter than 3.5″, threaded them into one of the valleys of the cardboard.  After I could see it in the cutout I then slipped a bigger copper tube over it and pushed the little one up behind the top of  the heart.  I wrapped a piece of silk ribbon aroud the card and then finished it with  3 wraps of copper wire.