Favorite Things ATC

For my small group ATC club I am part of we needed to create a ATC about our favorite thing. I have A LOT of favorites but chose my Clear Rhinestone Brooches as my favorite thing for this ATC.

I took some of my collection outside and photographed them in a large group, and chose one to do individually.

I printed out the group of them for the background of the card and the individual one to showcase. I really wanted that one to "sparkle" so I went over that entire cut-out brooch with crystal accent liquid.

I also added Rhinestones at the end of the swirls on the "Cherish" stamp

Watch Face Brooches

Have you seen this? What a wonderful project that I found over on Just Something I made. I tried it last night here's how mine turned out.





So I wanted to try it. I did mine a little different. I had an old wrist watch face with the glass. I dug around all my collections of things and found a few little items to put in it, like a "j" charm, a old watch face, and some crystal beads. I glued a bright piece of paper in the background with mod podge, and then layed all my pieces inside. I used Diamond Glaze to set everything (if you get any bubbles make sure to pop them right away, this also needs to dry overnight). After it was all dry I added a few buttons and little things unglued (so they would move around). I put the front glass piece back on and pushed everything back together. I attached it all to a large pin I had and added some ribbon that matched the items inside. I purchased my old watch at a garage sale a while back and just know I would use it for something someday. I have a few smaller watch faces (as well as a pocket one like the web-site I found this idea on) that I am going to alter.

I hope you try this. It was a lot of fun and it made a keepsake that will last forever.

What I love and collect...

and only buy at thrift stores and garage sales.

Flower frogs (ideas for uses here)

Birds (mostly Goebel)

Cows from plastic farm sets (just the cows)

Hand painted pictures of houses and buildings (under 12")

Hand painted pictures of cats (under 6")

Shiny Brite ornaments

Things with cherries on them

Martha Stewart Magazines (I have almost all of them, missing first 2)

Caldecott winning childrens books

Fransican "Starburst" pattern dishes

Anything with the entire alphabet on it.

Charm bracelets (someone's entire collection)

Crystal brooches (only clear/white)

50's holiday decorations (christmas, halloween... etc.)