Addicted to Scrap Swap

Kyla and I attended the Addicted to Scrap Swap today and I added another 9 beautiful ATCs to my collection. The theme for this month's swap was Stars of the Silver Screen and there were 2 Charlie Chaplins & Marilyn Monroes, 1 Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Fred/Ginger & Judy Davis in Wizard of Oz.

I made a Charlie Chaplin ATC and used the Emboss Resist technique out of Bernie Berlin's book ATC Workshop. I used chipboard for my ATC base, painted in Making Memories Copper Paint, next I stamped over the paint with music notes in black StazOn, I then stamped numbers, words & a ticket stubb in clear ink which I embossed with clear powder, the final layer was red acrylic paint. After the paint dried, I cover the ATC with a scrap of paper and then ironed the card twice, which melts the embossing powder and shows the colour underneath. Once the background was done, I used a Microscope slide where I stuck the picture of Charlie Chaplin & pages of an old dictionary, then covered the edges in foil tape. I stuck this to the card by using Dimensional Magic. I'm pretty happy with how the card turned out ... even though there was quite a lot of work involved in bringing this ATC together.

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