September ATC Class

I was in Arizona when the September ATC class was happening, so my teacher sent me some instructions that I hope I interpreted correctly! The theme is “Fall”. We were to use our gel plates and acrylic paint in fall colors, but one requirement was to add some metallic gold. Then we cut the gel plate pulls into 1/2 and 1 inch strips, like making our own “washi tape”. Then we adhered the strips to the full-sized cardstock, and finally, cut it down into the ATC size cards. Then once they were cut, we could do whatever we wanted to add to the “Fall” theme. I used a Lawn Fawn stencil and some purple stencil butter to add some swirling leaves to each card. I have a photo of the uncut cardstock after I glued on the strips (in two different patterns), and then the final cards. I had enough strips left to make 2 A2 card fronts in the diagonal pattern!

August 2024 ATC

The theme for this month was ransom note poetry. The background technique was using alcohol inks on our gel plate, with stencils. You apply the alcohol ink over a stencil onto the gel plate with a brayer, not being concerned if it seeps under the stencil. Remove the stencil and let it dry a couple of minutes. This can be done a second time with a different stencil and different ink color. Then use the brayer to apply white acrylic paint and lay the paper on top when done. Let it sit for a minute or so, then pull it off. My gel plate is small, so I could only get two ATC’s per pull. Then for a few of the cards, I used the “leftovers” from a couple of different pulls and put them onto one ATC which I thought gave it a neat look. Then we made the “poetry” look like a ransom note by using different fonts. Note: Alcohol ink will stain a stencil.

November ATC Class

We used gel plates, acrylic paint and stencils to make fodder for our card bases. The goal was to layer patterns and colors. Then we added more layers to the cards by tearing a different fodder sheet. The theme was art and creativity.

ATC Workshop, May 2023

There was a pre-class where we learned to make fodder using different techniques with a gel plate. Then in ATC class, we used the fodder with stencils based on the theme of Sisterhood. I forgot to take a photo of all my cards, but here are a few I had left after trading.