Elf Atc's

I got to playing around with my wrapping paper and here is one of the atc's I made. I used wallpaper for the background and also a carpet sample for the carpet. everything else is from wrapping paper besides the wreath which came from one of last years cards. the elf and stove are on pop dots so it's like a 3d effect didn't it turn out so cute!!

here is another atc i made with the elf wrapping paper. This one is very 3d. the window stands off the card so it's like you are looking in their window and it's 3d inside too. But yet still fits in a sleeve :)
I love these little elves they're so cute and I have a whole sheet of them lol

How to Stuff a 2 Liter Bottle

Ok some of you already know, but for those of you who don't, all year long I send away for free samples and then at Christmas time I put them in some sort of container and it becomes a gift for my teenage neice..this year I put them in a pop bottle...here is how I did it...
Empty and Clean out a 2 liter bottle. Remove the label

cut a slit in the side of the bottle. Not from top to bottom. Just big enough to get your hand and the items into it.

place all items into bottle through that slit

This is what one of my full bottles looked like..it was crammed full!!
You can then tape the slit with packageing tape (recommended for mailing)

Then I just put a piece of wrapping paper where the label use to be, slapped on a tag and put curly ribbon on the neck of the bottler...

Simple as that...hope that gives you all an idea on how this works.

Atc Under the sea swap

These are some atc's I made for an under the sea swap on swap-bot.com. For the background I just randomly swirled elmers glue around it then I let it dry. I then took a blue ink pad and rubbed all over the background including over the glue. Then I took a purple marker and a blending pen and added some purple in there. Then I just glittered up the dolphins. The turtle on the first card is a magazine clipping and in the second one I used blue glass beads to create a wave type design. The other dolphin atc I made was done with a blending pen. I just freehand drew it. It was my first time ever using a blending pen. I really like those things!! Not super crazy about that card but I added little spots of irredescent glitter and it added some glitz to it. I have 3 more cards to make and I'll be done for that swap. Hopefully the people receiving them will truely enjoy them!!!