ATC JAMS – Work In Progress – Spots 1 & 2 Completed Last week, I received an exciting an unexpected surprise in the mail: an envelope filled with three ATC JAMS! For those of you unfamiliar with this term, ATC JAMS stands for Artist Trading Cards – Just Add More Stuff! It is a round robin ATC swap where three [...]
Words To Inspire: Sympathy Card
Thinking Of You – Sympathy Card This week, Challenge #17 at Sentimental Sundays is Words To Inspire. For this challenge, I created a Sympathy Card because it’s during times at loss we need words of inspiration and encouragement the most. Inside The Card I used the following products on the card: DCWV Patterned PaperCTHH Black Dye InkCTMH [...]
Linda’s Name ATC: Trust In The Lord
I created this ATC for my friend Linda as part of a Name ATC Swap I’ve been participating in for several months now. Linda is a tremendous woman of faith, and I wanted send her a card to commemorate that. I chose the pretty blue and purple color scheme and added the delicate flowers to provide [...]
LTD Friendship Challenge: Name ATC Series
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted the ATCs I’ve made for the Names ATC swap, so today, I thought I’d share my latest. This trio is unique because they are are the only ones I created as part of a series within the swap! The other day, I came across three lovely Rebecca Sower images [...]
ATC: Mirror Mirror & A Kindred Spirits Challenge
Believe it or not, I still have a few leftover items from my Girly ATC kit to play with, and Mirror Mirror is the latest ATC I have created using these elements! When I first saw the mirror in the kit, the rhyme “mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” flashed [...]
ATC: The Perfect Dress
I created today’s ATC, The Perfect Dress, using the beautiful stamped image and the glittery bling crown from my Collage ATCs Girly Swap packet shown in my WOYWW10 post. I have loved this image ever since Wendy first made me an ATC with it a year prior (I would love to know the name and manufacturer of [...]
WOYWW 14 (A Day Late!)
Hello world! I did not forget my What’s On Your Workspace Wednesday post – but it appears that a bit of a bug got the better of me yesterday, and I spent most of the day sleeping and catching up on some much needed rest! So, I thought I’d go a head and share what [...]
Good Eggs Giveaway Winner Posted!
The Good Eggs Giveaway has drawn to a close. Although I’m a tad tuckered from hopping about all weekend, I’m excited by all of the new Friends I’ve made along the way! That’s the fun thing about these blog hops – you never know what you’ll see and who you’ll meet along the way, just that [...]
ATC: I Dream Of Barbie & Giveaway Updates
Welcome, especially those who have hopped here for the first time as part of The Good Egg Giveaway! Today’s ATC, I Dream Of Barbie, provides another look at an Artist Trading Card I made for my Collage ATC Girly Swap. Each card in this swap features one or more items contained in a package of [...]
ATC: Fashion Diva
Fashion Diva is another ATC I created using materials (the shoe, sunglasses, and silhouette) from my Collage ATC Girly Swap package. What I love about this card is the colorful background I created by layering vellum polka dot stickers from Mrs. Grossman’s (you could easily create your own with some vellum paper, a few circle [...]
ATC: Smell The Flowers
As we count down the days until spring, the adage Stop and Smell The Flowers has been running through my mind, so I created this ATC as both a literal and figurative reminder! Smell The Flowers is one of the ATCs I created using items from my ATC Girly Swap Collage package. This colorful bouquet was one of the [...]
WOYWW 11: The Fruit Of My Labor
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you! Last week, during WOYWW 10, I shared that I was participating in an ATC Girly Swap and showed you the items I needed to incorporate into my ATCs. Today, I am sharing the fruit of my labor. I created a record 18 cards from my collage package – way more than [...]
Val’s Name ATC
When you were young, did you look forward to giving and receivng Valentine’s Day cards from your classmates? At school, we used to decorate lunch bags and tape them to the sides of our desks to collect cards in! On Valentine’s Day, we would drop cards in our classmate’s bags when they weren’t around so that everyone [...]
Lotus Moon & One World One Heart
Happy Tuesday Everyone! I’d like to extend a special welcome to all who are visiting Create With Joy for the first time as part of the One World One Heart Blog Hop. As a first year participant, I am amazed by the outpouring of love I have received from both visitors and regular readers of this [...]
Kathy’s Name ATC
It’s time to share my first Name ATC of 2010! This card was designed for my friend Kathy at ATCs R Us. As many of you know, I do my best to customize each card based on my impressions of the recipient. I’ve been reading Kathy’s blog, Inkin’ It Up, for quite some time now, and [...]