🌸 Spring ATC Small-Format Inspiration with Chris🌸

We are back with more inspiration featuring our newest ATC Packs: Retro Femme, Color Me Spring, and Whimsical Homes. Today, Chris shows us how easily these tiny artist trading cards can be incorporated into stunning, fully realized card designs. 🎨✨

Let’s take a look at Chris’s gorgeous projects:

1️⃣ Retro Snark 🕶️💄

Chris began with a captivating portrait ATC from the Retro Femme pack. To frame the retro imagery, she used the crazy double running stitch die on vibrant red cardstock, layering it over a black mat. For the background, she stamped the large blossom sprays #1 directly onto the white card base, leaving it uncolored. The card is finished with the perfectly matched Some Snark sentiment: "I speak fluent sarcasm." 😂👏

2️⃣ Springtime Tulips 🌷☀️

For her second card, Chris focused on the lovely tulips ATC from the Color Me Spring pack. She built a detailed, textured background by layering a soft delicate links stencil pattern over the blue card base. She used the crazy double running stitch die again to create a crisp frame. The stamped sentiment, "YOUR Awesomeness OVERWHELMS ME," adds the perfect finishing touch! 🌷✨

3️⃣ Whimsical Circle Welcome 🏠☕

For her final card, Chris featured one of the charming structures from the Whimsical Homes ATC pack. She created a fun, repetitive background pattern using the circles all over texture plate. By simple-layering the colored ATC focal point, she let the texture shine. The card is completed with the welcoming and cozy "welcome" sentiment. 🏠🌈

💌 Start Your Spring Small-Format Creativity!

Are you ready to create? You can find all three of these new ATC Packs and more in our Paper Goods section:

• New Arrivals: Color Me Spring, Retro Femme, and Whimsical Homes 🛍️
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