Live From SnackTime ATCs

Hey hey Roadies!

It's Celia from Paper Beats Rock Designs here to show y'all these super fun artist trading cards I created with the Live From SnackTime stamp set from Ink Road Stamps, as well as the Basics: Collage Elements and Mug Life

First, I stamped out my icons from both the Live From SnackTime and Mug Life sets, colored them with alcohol markers and fussy cut them out.

Then I grabbed out some texture paste, a stencil, and some mixed media paper out of a notebook from Walmart. I used a silicone paintbrush to apply the paste in random spots on both sheets of paper.

After letting the paste dry, I snagged sprays in bronze and Tainted Love Teal and sprayed them across my two pages. I also used a spray bottle of water to get the colors to mix together slightly.

To get a more royal blue tone, I added a bit of metallic watercolor too.

While those dried, I stamped out my sentiments from Live From SnackTime in blue and brown, then slightly distressed them by blending a little bit of brown across them, and inking the edges in blue. I then mounted each sentiment on a light blue piece of cardstock.

When the backgrounds were completed dried I cut them down to 2½ x 3½ and splattered them with a dark blue ink.

To add more texture, I added some machine stitching, with a zig-zag stitch and some back and forth straight stitches in blue.

I wanted to add even more interest to the background so I pulled out one of the "X's" stamps from the Basics Collage Elements and white embossing powered to embossed them a few times on each card.

Then it was time to add my images and sentiments. I wanted them to look 3d, so I curled each piece and added foam tape to just their centers and liquid glue to the edges.

To finish them off I mounted each card on some Kraft paper.  I love making ATCs and I'm so happy with how they turned out!

Here are close ups of each card.

If you love these stamp sets as much as I do, head over to the Ink Road Shop and get yours using the code CELIA10 to get 10% off your purchase! Be sure to act fast because Live From SnackTime and Mug Life are both retiring!