Studio L3 Grungy Monday challenge

I have always wanted to make ATC's.  I even purchased a couple of paper pads a few years (yes, years) ago to try my hand at it.  But then I got caught up in the stamping and card making fever and ATC's were soon forgotten.  

I've been following Linda Ledbetter, Studio L3 for a while now and enjoy the art she creates.  Like Linda I love All Things Tim, Tim Holtz so I decided I would start participating in Linda's Grungy Monday challenges.  I went to Linda's blog last week to see what the challenge was for this week and there it was, ATC! Yikes!!

Luckily I had just ordered my first Tim Holtz stamps and was expecting them any day.  It is the City Central set from Stampers Anonymous and there is not a stamp in it that I don't love!!

I started with a 2.5 x 3.5 piece of cream cardstock.  I added Dusty Concord and Walnut Stain distress ink to the back ground using Ranger's Ink Blending tool.  I stamped the background with the eyechart stamp (off stamping to lighten the color) and the eye stamp from the set using Black Soot distress ink.  I then used the Creativity saying stamp and used a brush tip pen in black to isolate certain words, creativity, art, allow, yourself, to stamp in places on the background.

I stamped another eye stamp on separate paper then colored in the iris with some of the Dusty Concord.  I cut this image out and layered it over the background stamped eye image using a Zots Jumbo glue dot.


At the bottom I added a piece of Tim Holtz tissue tape.  To the left of the eye image I added a small safety pin putting it through the background cardstock.  I then used thin jute thread to tie a Tim Holtz word stick, Play, to the safety pin.
And that's it, my first finished ATC card.  Now I can say Yipee instead of Yikes!

Supplies I used:

Tim Holtz Clear Stamps Mini CITY CENTRAL Set 2011 Visual Artistry	im Holtz Idea-ology WORD STICKS Metal Charm Hardware	*Tim Holtz Idea-ology TISSUE TAPE NOSTALGIC Self Adhesive Vintage Paper	DISTRESS INK PAD BLACK SOOT
*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD WALNUT STAIN Brown Ranger	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD DUSTY CONCORD Purple Ranger	INK BLENDING TOOL Applicator	Zots SINGLES JUMBO
Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Cutterpede Trimmer

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