Christmas ATC Folder

It's Christmas Inspiration at Creative Inspirations Paint this week and today is my day to post a project.  I've joined an ATC swap at CDAC and in anticipation of receiving 9 beautiful ATC'S, I've made a folder to put them into.

To create the cover, I used paper from K&Co., 'Life's Journey'.   The vintage image is one I found at The Graphic Fairy.  I distressed the edges and inked them with Vintage Photo.  The beautiful stick pin is one I received in a swap.

 I painted the lace with CI Paint, 'Mocha Latte'.  Can't help but love paint with a name like that!  The roses were a bright pink, so to tone them down I used 'Rustic Red' and Burgundy'.  I then tipped the edges with 'Gold'.  I love the variations of color and the shimmer!

The book was made with some paper bags I had left over from an earlier mini album project.  I used my deckle scissors to trim the edges, inked them and then sewed the edges.  I used some Tim Holtz stamps and then spritzed all the pages with my homemade glimmer mist made with CI Paint 'Gold'.  Some more gorgeous shimmer! Otherwise, I left the pages plain so that the focus would be on the ATC's.

 You can find the tutorial for the ATC folder here.  My bags were smaller than hers so I just adjusted my measurements to fit my bags.
Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Challenges I would like to enter
Crafts and Me Challenge:  ribbon
Pollycraft Monday Challenge:  Christmas In July
Totally Stampalicious:  anything goes
Craft Your Passion Challenge:  Christmas is July
Cupcake Craft Challenge:  shabby sparkle
The Crazy Challenge:  ribbons
Allsorts Challenge:  free and easy
Paper Cutz Challenge:  anything goes 
Kaboodle Doodles:  stitching
Simply Create:  Christmas time
Paper Creations Ink:  Christmas in July 
Stamp Something:  embellish 
Christmas Inspirations:  Free Christmas project