Valentine ATCs

I joined a Valentine ATC swap on Facebook. It is the first swap on Facebook that I have joined. I finished these off but haven’t scanned them yet. What I am posting are camera pictures – which, for some reason, seem to be blurring today. Not sure on that but will get a scan of one of the eight I made soon and add that to the post.

The first step was a background. I decided to use a shaving cream background. I used Stampin’ Up! Pretty in Pink and Passion Pink re-inkers for the color.

Then, I realized that the ATCs were rolling up so I had to flatten them out. Out came the ironing board, a linen tea towel and the iron. This also heat sets the ATCs.

Next was trying to figure out what to put on the ATCs. I knew that I wanted to use some cupcake picks that I had received in a swap a year or so ago. Did I want to stamp on the ATC? I have these two foam stamps that are conversation hearts but they never leave a good image. I tried them on two ATCs but didn’t like the images they were producing so went back to my original thought – die cuts.

I had borrowed my girlfriend’s Sizzix some time ago and did a mess of die cuts. I used red primitive hearts on the ATCs and then put the cupcake picks.