Today's project and tutorial was inspired by a pile. Actually, by two piles. I have saved every sheet of artist paper that comes inside my copies of magazines published by Stampington & Company. If you have ever bought a copy of Somerset Studio or Somerset Memories, you know exactly what I mean. So today was the day to dig into my selection and make use of these beautiful papers.
My second inspirational pile was my stack of ATCs - Artist Trading Cards. These are playing card sized works of art that are traditionally made to trade with other artists. I have quite a few that I have received and many that I have made that I still own. I decided that they deserve a better home.
After choosing a piece of artist paper, I used a die from Spellbinders A2 Curved Matting Basics B set to cut and emboss 2 sections.
Using a die from Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles Small set, I cut a window into one of these pieces.
I flipped over this piece and added double-stick tape to three sides, leaving the top-most section untaped.
I adhered the two curved rectangles together, creating a pocket with a window. This will hold my ATC.
I added some ink to the edges on both front and back, both bringing in some additional dimension and color as well as highlighting the embossed edge. At the open end at the top, I punched a hole in the center.
This pocket was now complete and ready to hold an ATC.
I went ahead and repeated these steps using different artist papers until I had a total of 10 pockets, each filled with a different ATC.
To make the book, I attached all the pockets together by slipping a loose leaf ring through the hole at the top. Now these ATCs have a proper home and I love the fact that I can add or remove pockets as well as switch out the ATCs.
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Supply List
Other: Artist Trading Cards, artist paper, double-stick tape, scissors, hole punch, loose leaf ring
22 comments:
Brilliant!
How cool is that! I have that same stack of papers, love what you've done - as always. Perhaps I'll paint faces on them - lol.
Great idea Seth. Always inspirted by your creativity!
inpsirited!! ha ha new word :)
So cool!
What a great idea! You always do the most interesting things!
This is such a great idea I wished I thought of it, and Thank Goodness you showed us how relatively easy it is. (Because some of the things you do are beyond my comprehension/contemplations.) Thank you, again, Maestro.
Very cool!!!1343 dt
Very cool!!!1343 dt
So cool! You have certainly got me going in a different direction!
That's a great way to store ATCs, and transport them. I really will have to get one of those machines.
What a marvelous project Seth!!! Wonderful!
What a creative way to store them.
Ohhh, I like this! Honestly I thought I was one of the few that saves all of those artists papers. Who knew? Great idea.
I love those papers - have recently used them to make chunky board book journals and they look great.
Erin
Cool! A friend sent me a link to your blog, so of course, I had to come look! Like the pockets. I've been keeping my ATC's in those baseball sleeves in a notebook. . .
GREAT IDEA!
Wohoo! Just what I needed! Every friday I make something DIY, and this album gave me a cute idea how to make an advent calendar today. Thank you for the inspiration and Spellbinders for sharing the blog post.
Hugs, Barbel
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Hi Seth! What a great idea. Several years ago I made a 3-ring holder for my ATCs with hardbook covers painted and plastic baseball card pages inside to hold the ATCs. I like yours much better!!! Thanks for sharing.
I could do this!! Love it...thank you for the imspiration Seth!
Kim Hupke
This is brilliant! Of course I have both those piles (and many more-lol). I love this idea; thanks for sharing. AND I'm signing up!!
This is great! Im new to the atc thing, and im trying to learn! This is a great idea!
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