ATC No. 1

Our latest ATC challenge was super fun! We were to put 5 supply items into a bag/container. Each bag could hold the same items as the other bags or the supplies could vary from bag to bag.... as long as there were 5 in each bag. Those we swapped first.

The second part of the challenge was to create ATCs from the swapped supplies. We were flexible at this point and decided we could dump all the bags out together and use any of the items mixed up or we could use the items as they were bagged. We also decided we could use stuff from our own stashes if we wanted to. The only set in stone rule here was that we could only use 5 of the swapped items per ATC.

I chose to not mix the bagged supplies together.

Here are the items in the first bag I used.
an upholstery fabric swatch
a piece of corrugated cardboard
a safety pin
a button
and a paper flower
(and the paper bag they came in)

And here is the finished ATC.
"Lincoln's Sparrow"

I used the button to pop the bird up off the background and added some seam binding covered wire and silk flowers from my stash. The bird is cropped from a free image from The Feathered Nest.

On the back, I threaded a wooden bead, silk leaf (both from my stash)and the paper flower onto the safety pin. The flower wasn't working for me the way I received it, so I sprayed it with purple Glimmer Mist.

In going right along with this whole swap concept, I decided to use the paper bag the items came in, for my packaging. So I sewed an envelope up and added a scrap of the upholstery fabric and another image of the sparrow I used on the card.

I need to finish up a couple of little things on the other four, and then I'll share those with you.

Have a beautiful day!