Romantic Spring ATC

This artist trading card has a soft romantic look to it. The motifs are die cut using Sizzix Originals Dies and the paper is from K&Company.

For this project you will need:

- beige 2.5 x 3.5 inch ATC
- Fiskars corner squeeze punch for rounded corners
- Sizzix Originals “Bugs, Itty Bitty #1”, “Flowers and Vines” and “Flower Layers #3”
- K&Company Classic K Charlotte 2 sided Paper
- Sizzix or Cuttlebug embossing folder with design of choice
- Sizzix Big Shot or Cuttlebug Machine
- 3-D foam tape
- pink rose button
- thin wire (for bug antennas)
- green thread
- needle for pricking holes
- soft foam mat for pricking holes
- glue
- decorative edged scissors

Instructions:

1. Emboss the ATC using your embossing folder and machine.
2. Then cut a piece of scrapbook paper with decorative edged scissors and adhere to the left half of the ATC. Trim edges around the artist trading card.
3. Round the corners of the ATC using your corner squeeze punch.
4. Die cut 2 flowers out of the same paper. Fold each petal in half and then adhere the smaller flower to the larger flower. Adhere a rose button to the center of the small flower.
5. Die cut 2 vines out and adhere one over the other using 3-D foam tape.
6. Die cut two bugs. Cut the section between the wings out of one bug. Then adhere the cut bug with 3-D foam tape over the second bug. Attach wire as antennas.
7. Using a small amount of glue, adhere the motifs onto the ATC.
8. Prick evenly spaced holes around the edge of the ATC. The holes in this card are 0.5 cm apart and 0.5 cm from the edge.
9. Blanket stitch around the card using your thread.

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