SPECIMEN ATC'S

I have seen various ways of using acetate to make clear cards and in the past have used shrink plastic as a window in an atc so it looks like stained glass when you hold it up to the light.  These atc's are along the same lines in that they are using acetate to make a specimen type of atc that when it is held up, is completely translucent, apart from the image on the acetate.  These are clear floral stickers that work particularly well as they are photographs and look very realistic.  I have still used my black backing for these atc's as I prefer my cards to have a border around them.  This just means you need to cut the same shape/size window for both the front piece and the back black piece.  The front piece starts out as a white piece of card but ends up with various colours of distress inks and distress oxide inks and some embossing on them to match the image.  I've kept these fairly minimalistic with just a little embellishment so as not to detract from the overall look.  

It was a bit of a mission to work out how to attach them in my book.  If I stuck them down on my black pages you would totally lose the effect of the acetate window, but if I stuck them down over white, they still just looked like stickers on a white backing.  So I made some little vellum library pockets and attached those with washi tape so now the little specimen cards can be pulled out to view without hindering the aesthetics of them.  

 "Specimen #1"

"Specimen #2"

(my favourite, as it's a weedy looking thing)

"Specimen #3"

"Specimen #4"

"Specimen #5"

Working out how the pockets would go.

The finished page with 2 pockets and 2 Specimen ATC's.