ATC for Unity ATC Challenge

Okay, I succumbed to creating an ATC for the Unity challenge even though I already create 40 ATC’s a month (2 groups)! Wasn’t going to, but... I looked at the small squirrel in the Sept 2017 KOTM and the embossing folder with trees I found while cleaning up all my folders, stencils and dies and figured I needed to do it! (To reward myself for cleaning up and organizing craft stuff all day!)

To begin, I put down 2 different distress greens on my craft mat, spritzed with water and dipped my card into them. I pulled yellow, orange and rusty hinge Distress inks and did the same after drying the card. I then took a Hero Arts stencil and added leaves in same colors. I ran the ATC through with the embossing folder and took a brown Memento ink and swiped it across the raised tree trunks.

I stamped the squirrel first with Tea Rose Oxide, and then coated the areas of the stamp like the edges to create depth in the image using Rusty Hinge. I kept doing this until I was pleased with the squirrel. I then took the tread background stamp from Aug 2018 SMAK kit and stamped it both vertically and horizontally to give texture. I had cut a little heart out to mask the one in the image. I used Vintage Photo, Fossilized Amber and Rusty Hinge to apply the texture. I then added more shading using Prismacolor pencils and a brown Crystal for the eye.

I cut out some leaves and again swiped Distress inks over the texture created by the punch. I stamped the sentiment from the kit, cut it up and applied color to the edges and used a red pencil to add more. To complete the ATC, I darkened the edges, added flat enamel dots and more brown crystals to simulate nuts! Again, I’m on this fall kick, I guess, and, now, I’ll put away that kit for awhile! Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!