hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel thank you so much for
coming back to watch my new video today i have a video designed for 7 Dots studio
where i created a set of ATC cards i used both the dreamscapes collection and
the hazy days collection however there are some new collections that had just
come out and they're just beautiful so stay tuned for those in the next few
weeks I created a set of ATC's and they have the theme of film and cameras
because I really want to make them a little bit more grungy looking so sit
down enjoy the process and just to let you know that all the materials and
products are linked below in the description area for those of you who
don't know, an ATC stands for artists trading card the size of an ATC is two
and a half by three and a half inches and as you can see I'm cutting some of
the 7 dots studio paper into that size I am cutting six of them and one
side will be three and a half and the other one will be two and a half inches
artist trading cards better known as ATC's arer little cards where you make
your own artwork on it and then trade them with people whether it is in the
same country or around the world and each person makes their own artwork and
then they trade them with other people it's really fun to trade with other
people and I've done this a lot when I've traded with people from around the
world so they have a piece of my art and I have a piece of theirs most people
make them in sets like I did today so you have a few people to trade with once
I cut my six card backgrounds I took the hazy day stamp from seven
dots to do and started applying it to the background I took the one that looks
more circular it looks like a huge paint splatter and in order to get just
partial image on my cards I put two cards together and started stamping that
with my stamp now I took a acrylic block because it's easier to press with it and
as you can see I get half a circle on one stamp and then half on the other
this is a great technique to do when you want to just get a partial image of
something in different areas so as you can see now I'm going to add four of
them together and then get a corner image of the circle and some in one of
the cards and then a little bit of another part of the image on another
card and this is a really great way to just create texture I continued moving
the cards in the areas where I wanted to stamp and just place them beside each
other so I would only have to stamp once in that way I would create partial
images on all my cards ATC's can have any theme you like and a lot of people
trade them in groups where they have a monthly theme and they trade and create
an art related to that theme and then they have monthly swaps where they all
trade one of the cards and they make the same one for every one so that's a good
group way to trade ATC's and find groups in your area that want to do this type
of trading
then I took a stapled like stamp that comes in the same set and added some
more texture in the background
finally I took the smallest stamp in the set which gives you some paint splatters
and just stamped around to add even more texture to create some more texture it
took a stencil from the crafters workshop which has a filmstrip on it and
I use some distress oxide ink in the vintage photo and wild honey colors and
just dubbed it with my blending tool to create some really nice filmstrip
stencils because it matched perfectly with my seam I did this to all the cards
and then I heat set them using my Ranger heat tool because I wanted to make sure
that it doesn't interact with any other medium
I took my prima distressing tool and distrust the edges to each one of the
cards and then I took the two colors I had used for the filmstrip and I just
edged the edges and inked them with the two colors to create a really nice
vintage look I took some Prima marketing wood icons
these are the cameras and I inked them in the same colors I had used for the
cars which is the wild honey and the vintage photo distress oxide ink I
didn't have enough camera so I use an hourglass for one of the icons I don't
know if I'll be able to list these in the description area as I'm not sure if
they're still available these are old and I had them in my stash but you can
use any wood icons for these now it was time to assemble the cards I took a few
flares from the hazy days collection and a few of the die-cut elements from both
the hazy days in the dreamscapes collection I basically took many of them
and then I rearranged them on each of the cards one of the really nice
techniques I like using is I like using my tiny attacher from Tim Holtz and I've
done this with a lot of the ATC's that I've created where I use the staples to
end the stapler to attach the little die-cuts to my cards and this is a great
way to make it look quite vintage and also to make them stick to the page
without having to use too much glue so I just go and I staple them to the
background and because I already had some stamped images that look like
staples this was perfect because it matched the rest of this really rugged
look
once I stapled all the die-cuts on to each of the cards I took the little wood
icon camera and my flares and I put one on each of the cards to give a little
bit more texture I took some black thread and I ripped a bunch of it and
used some soft matte gel to glue it to each of the backgrounds so I would rip
this thread and then use some gel to glue it to the background then I took
the same gel and used it to glue the flare and the camera I would love to
know if any of you like to make ATC's and if you do please leave me a comment
and tell me what type of ATC's are your favorite to make and if you've never
made them before I would love to see some of them so please show them to me
share them with me on social media I'd love to see if you've made them before
and leave me a comment and let me know
you
one of the things that I like doing is adding sentiments to each of my ATC's so
I took the word stickers from both the hazy days and the dreamscapes collection
and picked my favorite sentiments out of them and then stuck them to the
background
finally I knew that I wanted to add a little bit of some glimmer to the
background so I took my noodle glimmer pace this is the gold color and using a
paintbrush I just basically added it to the
background and let me tell you this is one of the easiest way to add some
glimmer to anything it really came out amazing I didn't have and it was not a
lot of effort so it was just a really really cool way to add that's really
nice sparkle to anything and it goes on so smoothly and dries really really
quickly
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