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<\/a><\/p>\nFor this tutorial I created three double-sided Artist Trading Card hanging Christmas ornaments. Each side is done in a different style, one side is whimsical and fun and the other is clean and elegant so I\u2019ve technically got 6 ornaments to show you how to create today.\u00a0 You can choose to make single sided ornaments and hang them on your Christmas tree or for cards you can add your Christmas sentiments on the back. Double-sided ornaments are beautiful from all angles and perfect for hanging anywhere in your home. You can even make both sides completely different like I\u2019ve done with mine.\u00a0 The whimsical sides features a Joggles Itty Bitty ATC stencil, Joggles rubber stamps and Laurel Burch cats and the elegant sides feature gorgeous Giftsland Lokta hand made paper from the assorted Copper pack. Joggles has 8 different packs that range from florals to geometrics in a variety of patterns and colours. Each assortment pack contains twelve 8.5\u201d x 11\u201d sheets and you get 2 of each design so you can make lots of ATC ornaments with one pack.<\/p>\n
Christmas is fast approaching so lets get started ;0)<\/p>\n Materials and Supplies<\/strong><\/p>\n Joggles Rubber stamps: Nonsense Latin Text<\/a> & Background Noise – Spark<\/a><\/p>\n Joggles stencil – Itty Bitty Mini Cyclone<\/a><\/p>\n Giftsland Lokta paper – Copper<\/a><\/p>\n Laurel Burch cling stamp – Whiskers<\/a><\/p>\n Distress Oxides: Fired Brick<\/a>, Cracked Pistachio<\/a>, Broken China<\/a>, Wilted Violet<\/a><\/p>\n Brilliance Ink – Cosmic Copper * Archival Ink – Jet Black<\/a><\/p>\n Dylusions Ink Spray – Crushed Grape<\/a> * Fireworks – Grape Jelly<\/a><\/p>\n Dylusions White Linen paint<\/a><\/p>\n Strathmore\/Canson Watercolor Paper<\/a><\/p>\n Tim Holtz – Holiday Words – Script dies<\/p>\n Cheery Lynn Designs – Holly Flourish die, Impression Obsession Stamps – Holly leaves die<\/p>\n Viva Pearl Pen – Copper (dimensional liquid drops), Viva Pearl Pen – Magic Transparent white (dimensional liquid drops)<\/p>\n Stickles Glitter Glue – Diamond<\/a><\/p>\n Prismacolor Pencil – Chartreuse, Wink of Stella – Clear, Copper gel pen, Black Micron pen<\/p>\n DecoArt Snow-Tex<\/a><\/p>\n Inkssentials Non-stick Craft Sheet<\/a>, Ranger Mini Mister<\/a> and water, Ranger Heat Tool<\/a><\/p>\n Aleene\u2019s Fast Grab glue, Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive<\/a>, Pop Dots, Glue Dots<\/p>\n Silver hanging cord, Silver Tassels, Purple and Lavender organza ribbon<\/p>\n Heavy weight white cardstock<\/p>\n Paint brush, Paper towel, Clothes pegs or clamps, Wood craft stick<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stamp the Laurel Burch cats collage twice onto a sheet of watercolor paper with Jet Black Archival ink.<\/p>\n Tip: When using textured watercolor paper stamp your images on the back of the paper instead of the front.\u00a0 The back of the paper is smoother and you\u2019ll get a better stamped impression.<\/p>\n Decide which kitties to use from the collage and cut them out. I decided to create a sense of family with my ornaments so I chose groups of kitties for my focal images.<\/p>\n Watercolor paint all the kitties with Distress Oxides. For my kitties I only used 4 colours:\u00a0 Fired Brick, Wilted Violet, Broken China and Cracked Pistachio.\u00a0 I like to smear a bit of each colour directly onto my non-stick craft sheet and add varying quantities of water with my paint brush to create various shades of each colour and mix and blend as I paint.<\/p>\n Make sure the kitties are all dry and then colour their eyes with Chartreuse Prismacolour pencil.<\/p>\n Add a touch of metallic copper to all the cat\u2019s noses with a gel pen. All the copper touches added to the ornament fronts ties in with the copper paper I used on the backs to give the finished ornaments a cohesive look.<\/p>\n Fussy cut out the kitties and enhance all the stamped edges and design lines with a black Micron pen. I actually started with a black Prismacolor pencil but switched to the pen because some of the areas are really tiny and the pen is a darker black too.<\/p>\n Apply clear Wink of Stella to the kitties for touches of magical shimmer.<\/p>\n The next step is to create your own background papers for the ATCs. The concept for my ornaments is \u201cvisions of sugar plums dancing in their heads\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 I began by spritzing just one colour of Dylusions Ink Spray,\u00a0 I used Crushed Grape, onto my craft sheet.<\/p>\n As you can see in this photo you can get quite a few different looks by just using one colour. Undiluted ink is deep purple but when you start diluting it with spritzed water you can get various shades of pink too by controlling how much water you add.\u00a0 Just have lots of fun experimenting with the amount of ink and water and create multiple backgrounds.\u00a0 Dry the papers with a heat tool and continue playing by adding texture and patterns to them by re-smooshing them onto less diluted ink.<\/p>\n Once I was finished playing, and all my fingers were a yummy purple colour, I chose the background paper I wanted to use and cut 3 ATCs from it. Artist Trading Cards measurements are 2.5 inches x 3.5 inches (64mm x 89mm).<\/p>\n The next step is to add purple shimmer to your purple fingers\u2026and the ATCs ;0) Joggles\u2019 Itty Bitty mini Cyclone stencil was perfect to create the \u201cvisions of sugar plums\u201d.\u00a0 For this step I used the stencil a bit different to the traditional way.\u00a0 I wanted the finer swirly lines of the stencil pattern so I applied the ink onto the stencil itself instead of spraying the ink through the stencil to colour the background.<\/p>\n I spritzed Grape Jelly Fireworks, which is a water-based shimmery ink onto the stencil, turned it over and laid it down onto my ATC. I then used paper towel to dab at the back of the stencil and transfer the ink pattern to the ATC.<\/p>\n YAY, I love it! The impression is exactly what I envisioned dancing sugar plums would look like ;0)<\/p>\n Of course you cannot waste all that yummy over-spray ink so spritz up the stencil on the other backgrounds you made and create new sparkly backgrounds in the process. Once you\u2019re done playing dry all the papers with a heat tool.<\/p>\n Look at some of the fun ATCs I made just using 2 purple Ink sprays!<\/p>\n These are the 3 ATCs I decided to use for the whimsical kitty sides of my Christmas ornaments.<\/p>\n Now don\u2019t gasp in horror\u2026but I decided the colour was a little bit too \u201cbright\u201d so I toned it down with a coat of White Linen Dylusions paint. I made a whitewash by mixing a tiny dab of paint with water and applied it with a brush.\u00a0 You can\u2019t really tell a difference in the photos but the colour is less bright and it didn\u2019t effect the shimmer of the Fireworks spray either.<\/p>\n Now its time for the rubber stamping. Ink up the Joggles Nonsense Latin Text with Cosmic Copper Brilliance ink.\u00a0 Apply the ink with random pressure to create a distressed look.<\/p>\n Stamp a portion of the text onto each ATC. I did one with the text covering the upper portion of the ATC and the others I stamped the text down alternate sides.<\/p>\n Heat set the ink to dry it. The copper text adds a lovely metallic touch to the backgrounds.<\/p>\n Stamp stars, Joggles Background Noise – Sparks rubber stamp, onto the ATCs with White Linen Dylusions paint. Do this by thinly smearing a dab of paint onto your craft sheet and tap the stamp in to the paint.\u00a0 You can get a few impressions out of one smear.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a look at the ATCs so far\u2026the stamped stars add a lovely subtle touch to the backgrounds.<\/p>\n Turn the ATCs into a magical winter wonderland by applying DecoArt Snow-tex to the ATC edges with a wood craft stick. I love this stuff!<\/p>\n Die cut out holly flourishes and leaves from heavy weight white cardstock. I used Cheery Lynn Designs\u2019 Holly Flourish and the holly leaves are from a wreath die by Impression Obsession Stamps.<\/p>\n Apply clear Wink of Stella to the flourish and Diamond Stickles Glitter glue to all the holly leaves.<\/p>\n Add dimensional shimmery dots to all the stamped stars. I used Magic Transparent White Viva Pearl Pen but any clear shimmery dimensional drops will do the trick.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have any then use glitter glue instead to add touches of magical shimmer to the backgrounds.<\/p>\n While the embellishments and the ATC backgrounds are drying its time to make the elegant sides of the ATCs. Cut 3 ATCs from heavy weight white cardstock and 3 ATC sized pieces from a sheet of the cream, copper and silver floral patterned Lokta paper.<\/p>\n Adhere the Lokta paper to the ATC blanks with a coat of your favourite adhesive. I applied a bead of Scotch Quick Dry adhesive around the inner edge of each ATC blank and smeared it with my finger to thin and make sure the glue covered all the edges.<\/p>\n The next step is to start assembling the ornaments. Make hangers from silver cord and adhere them in place on the back of the Lokta paper ATCs with Aleene\u2019s Fast Grab glue.\u00a0 Adhere the silver tassels in the same way.\u00a0 Then run a bead of glue around the inner edge of the undecorated side of the ATC and sandwich the hanger and tassel between the front and back panels of each ATC ornament.\u00a0 Make sure the front and back ATCs line up nicely, press the edges together with your fingers to achieve good adhesion and clamp as needed.\u00a0 The Aleene\u2019s Fast Grab glue is awesome for projects like this when you don\u2019t want to wait ages for the glue to dry.\u00a0 The first ornament was nice and glued by the time I\u2019d adhered the second together and I was able to re-use the same pegs (clamps) on each ornament.<\/p>\n Adhere the kitties to the front of each ornament with pop dots.\u00a0\u00a0 Then apply more Snow-Tex to hide the edges of the kitties layer, cover the gab between the kitties layer and the ATC and hide the seam of the joined ATC panels.<\/p>\n Tip: I applied the textured snow in two stages because the stuff is quite sticky and tricky to cover larger areas in one application.\u00a0\u00a0 I recommend you do the first application mentioned in Step 10 and let it dry instead of attempting to apply all the snow now.<\/p>\n While the snow is drying die cut out the Christmas words for the elegant ATCs. 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