ATC No. 4 ~ The Last of the Set

This is the last ATC for the "supply swap" challenge.
And quite honestly, my least favorite of the four. But I'm resigned with that fact, because this one I'm keeping for myself.

The supplies were the same as No. 3, only the scrap image was different.

a ticket
a velvet leaf
a butterfly brad
a blue paper flower
a vintage scrap image

Because this one is for me, I didn't do packaging for it.

The front...

Like ATC No. 2, this one is book style... only it opens the correct way. I gessoed the ticket and added a seam binding ribbon.

Open it up...

I gessoed the leaf too and the paper flower was no problem at all this time. I added a couple of large, orangy-pink sequins and got creative with the butterfly brad. I popped the rhinestones out of it and placed them in the center of the sequins and put one tiny one on the girl's collar.
Wrote out the proverb and fini... all done.

Have a beautiful Monday!

ATC No. 3 or The ATC That Almost Wasn't

Or the ATC that made me say things I would be embarrassed for you to hear me say.

The items I received were...

a ticket
a blue paper flower {@%$#@!}
a velvet leaf
a metal butterfly brad
a vintage scrap image
(and the bag it all came in, which was held closed with the pearl stick pin)

And here it is all finished.

The scrap image reminded me of a vintage hankie I had, so out that came to become the base for the front of the card. I hand sewed the hankie piece to a bit of white pillowcase fabric. I then placed the scrap and the leaf and proceeded to stop dead in my tracks.
It was the blue flower that stopped me.
I stared at it and stared at it.
I held it, I touched it, I spoke to it.
It just stared silently back at me.
I accidentally pulled the stem loose.

OH!

I flipped the card over...

I twirled the stem up a bit. Wrote on the back of the ticket. Stuck those two items down and poked the butterfly brad through the pillowcase fabric. I flipped the card back over and stopped dead again.
I pondered and pondered and pondered.
And then I channeled my friend Nina. I took that blue flower and proceeded to drown it in bleach. And it turned a not too bad shade of peach...

but clashed terribly with the golden yellow of the hankie. So back to pondering.

Wait! I have some golden yellow embossing powder!

I used it. And my peach flower turned a sooty sort of yellow. No good.

So I put more embossing powder on it and as I was heating it up for a second time, I noticed an odd odor in the house.
It took me a moment and then I realized... my blue, bleached peach, embossed to sooty yellow paper flower was charring.

Yup. But at least I now knew why it was a sooty yellow. All I had left up my sleeve was paint. So I painted it. However Mellow Yellow didn't look right with goldenrod yellow.

And as I was about to have a tantrum and hurl that little paper flower across the room, it dawned on me that I didn't need to actually use the flower. I had already used the stem... and that counts! I also realized I had the perfect vintage, velvet, yellow posies sitting in a box just a reach away.

And that is the story of ATC No. 3.

ATC No. 2

My second ATC for this swap is finished.

Here are the items I was to use.

a French book page
an image of Louise Mante
a length of cream silk ribbon
a scrap of hot pink velvet
5 tiny pearls
(and the bag it was all tucked into)

And here it is, all finished...

Again, I made the packaging out of the bag that everything was swapped in and decorated it with some of the left over bits I used on the card.
I had this scrap of great tapestry fabric that I created a book-like cover out of. (how funny! I just realized that it opens backwards. That came naturally, so does that mean I'm naturally backwards from the rest of society... heehee, probably!) Anyhoo, I also made a little bead and bell charm that I attached to the ribbon closure.

Open it up (backwards) and this is what you have.
"Gypsy Soul"

I added some sheer turquoise fabric, sequins and a little embroidery.
Pretty simple, but boy was that hot pink velvet tricky for me to wrap my head around. Also, I was wishing that sheer fabric was a lighter blue... more aqua. I thought about trying to bleach it, but I was running out of time so I decided to work with it as is.
I still have two more ATCs to share, but probably won't get around to posting those until next week.

Wishing everyone a beautiful Monday!

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!