You know what I spent most of my morning doing? Trying to salvage all the little pieces of unused rub-ons I have that are littering my shelf. Anyone else have this problem? After I cut some out, the others tend to lose their paper backing that keeps them from rubbing off…and I lose 1/2 of a rub-on on my shelf or another rub-on. It’s such a mess. So this morning, I spent time paper clipping the paper backs to all the pieces. It was fun…not so much.

ATCs seem to be all the rage this week. Verve Visuals is doing an ATC challenge and somewhere I saw a tutorial for them. Not only that, but my sister-friend Becky sent me a few the other day! AND I’m going to participate in a swap for them.

I had started making all my stamping sisters (Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers 14, see sidebar) a "card" back when SBS 14 completed. Honestly, I only got as far as stamping the images. So, I decided to turn those images into ATCs for my sistahs!!

All of the Bellas are for my sistahs. See the Bella ATC above? There are 5 in that series and they all look the same. Here’s a closer look at the faux metal seal…

I made this from retired Classy Copper (wasn’t that the name?) embossing powder on top of gold metallic paper (brand unknown). I used the Rubber Stamper * 365 days* Tap Tap Tap stamp from Circle of Friends which is about to retire!! You might want to "catch it" before it goes!!

This is a 3 part series and (obviously) they are all different. The lighting wasn’t that great. The first ATC uses Always Artichoke, River Rock (I’m going to be sick when I run out of that paper), and Chocolate Chip card stocks.

This series, I’ve titled "Blondes have more fun." See the really daring Bella wearing a black leather jacket? She’s very adventurous . You know why she’s *really* adventurous? Because she is wearing Elegant Eggplant pants. Uhhh huh. And again, the lighting is horrible so just to be clear, the second layer is Elegant Eggplant card stock on top of Basic black. I will probably photograph this one again.

Enjoy stampahs! Until next time…

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