Monday, April 23, 2012

ATC Creation Process

I've been working on a 3D sort of ATC today:



It was a fun process, too!  I used recycled material throughout the whole thing.  The top piece is made from the top center of a #6 plastic clam shell that our Russian cakes came in.



I used Sharpie markers to make my design.


Then I cooked it in the toaster oven!  Yup, ~275 degrees (F) for about 6 minutes on the parchment paper seen in the picture above.  It shriveled all up and curled around itself.  I had to flatten it back out a little and put something heavy on it to sort of get it to lay down again.


Then I covered a recycled cardboard ATC card (I just cut it out from the bottom of small package) with this flashing leftovers:


Then I put a neat little design in the flashing and lined up the plastic:


I used E-6000 glue to fix them to each other and added a few final swirls to the metal bits...  I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!


I call it Emotions.  The depth and movement, darkness and light...  It's even got a well in the middle of the plastic - a well of emotions.  :)

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