- Click HERE if you don't know what ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) are and want to know more.
The theme of this ATC swap was children. I knew I wanted to use a photo of my baby son's hand (who is now four). When I went hunting through all our photos I didn't find the photo I was looking for, but instead found a photo of my son's hand with my Great Nana's hand, which I just love. The photo was taken at my Great Nana's 100th birthday, it is her hand and my, then, 1 month-old boy.
Stamps: Scribble This (116406). Card/Paper: Sahara Sand (106552), Whisper White (106549). Ink: Sahara Sand (105208), VersaMark (102283). Accessories: White Stampin' Emboss Powder (109132), White uni-Ball Signo Gel Pen (105021). Tools: Heat Tool (106586), Mat Pack (105826), Daubers (102892).
The wording on the photo says, "one century and five generations apart... together". I titled the ATC, "youngest generation".
Here is some more information about my ATC:
- The Whisper White cardstock is daubered with Sahara Sand before matting onto the Sahara Sand cardstock.
- I stamped the swirl from Scribble This using VersaMark, added white embossing powder, then heat set it. When heat setting embossing on a photograph you need to heat very slowly and carefully. If it is heated to quickly the photo will be ruined with cracked lines through it before the embossing powder sets.
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The faux-stitching across the top and down the right-hand side was pierced using the Mat Pack, and then I played "join-the-dots" with a white gel pen.
And here are the lovely ATC swaps that I received...
Aren't they gorgeous and so different from each other. Oops, I just realised that I have photographed the "friend" ACT swap turned landscape instead of portrait (sorry Vicky-Lee).