I was shocked to see I’m already at 300!
This ATC is made of items that would have been recycled anyway. My way has a little more visual appeal. I used a cereal box, a wallpaper sample and green magazine images. I decided to sew the wallpaper to the cereal box so I wouldn’t have to use glue. Of course I could have cut letters from the magazine to spell my message but a white gel pen was so much quicker.
I’ve been making and swapping quite a few ATC’s lately and am running out of room. I came up with the idea to use a book with the pages cut in half to house the books. I doggedly cut down through the pages and then at the end discovered that I had cut at an angle so the the pages wouldn’t turn independently. I was not giving up…
I cut out the text block and made my own signatures. I prepped and painted the cover inside and out before adding the signatures which I also randomly stamped for some interest.
The pages are big enough to place ATC’s in both a portrait and landscape orientation. This was very important to me. I have another book that I store ATC’s in that I have to turn each time there is a landscape one…drives me crazy.
I’m still working on busy bags for my friend’s church. Slowly but surely I’ll get a dozen made. This one was made from another part of the denim slipcover I recently cut up. The quilt block came in a scrap bag I inherited. I decided to try out one of the “fancy” stitches on my machine to sew it on. I like the contrast of the red thread.
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