Office ATCs

...Or how to pass the time on a slow day at work.

I had enough to keep me busy most of the work day, but not enough to fill a full eight hours. I had down time. I was bored. And my work computer doesn't have solitaire (I know, it's a true hardship, believe me!). So what's a crafty person to do with little to do? Why, get creative of course! All it took were a few basic office supplies and I had plenty to play with for a while.

Materials:
* Light-weight cardboard--anything light enough to cut will do, such as a Kleenex box
* Scissors or paper trimmer
* Adhesive (I keep a cartridge of MonoAdhesive on my desk, but a gluestick will do)
* Colored memo notes or copy paper, newspaper, scraps of leftover wrapping paper (from birthday, retirement or Christmas parties)
* Pens or colored pencils

Process:
I started by cutting a piece of light-weight cardboard down to ATC size, 2.5" x 3.5". Next, I took a sheet of paper from my memo cube, folded it, and cut out triangles, changing the widths and heights for variety, but keeping them short enough to fit an ATC. I did this with several different colors, and even found a piece of gold foil wrapping paper to use as well.

I then decorated some of the colored triangles with "garland" and "ornaments" using my colored pens--I even used the paper from a Hershey Kiss as the garland on one tree (yellow tree on a blue ATC). I tore the edge of plain white copy paper for snow drifts, and used a Presto! Jumbo Correction pen by Pentel (whiteout in pen form) to make snowflakes, the garland on a dark tree ("Comfort and Joy" card), part of the snowdrifts on one card, and even to decorate one of the trees. Here's how they turned out:

And this is what two of them look like when used for full-size (4.25 x 5.5) cards: