Saturday, April 25, 2009

Anything Atc

My partner likes sport bikes and fleur de lis, it was a challenge to think of a theme. Plus, she is an art major and has sent me a beautifully made atc in a previous swap. She does like french stuff so I came up with a monet theme and a fleur de lis theme.

Butterfly Card

I am in a sock swap, this is the handmade card I am enclosing with the socks. (click on card image to see blown up detail of the paper folding)

Monday, April 20, 2009

Patty's birthday fruit bouquet

Instead of a cake, I made a fruit bouquet for my friend's bday


Fairy tale atc

This atc is based on the not well known Grimms brothers fairy tal "The Little Old Woman"

Saturday, April 18, 2009

second set Twice Stamped ATCs

The theme of this swap was to use at least 2 rubber stamp images on your atc. I had 2 partners for this swap.



First set Twice Stamped ATCs

The theme of this swap was to use at least 2 rubber stamp images on your atc. I had 2 partners for this swap.





Sunday, April 12, 2009

frog atc extras

Both my partners in the fat cat exchange like frogs, so since I usually throw in an "extra", I made them each a frog atc.


fat cat atc swap

The theme of this atc swap was Fat Cat. I just learnt how to do Iris folding ( you fold paper in a circle to end up resembling the iris of a camera lens). So, I tried my hand at a few- the blue is my first attempt. Got better on the second try.






I have a die punch to create punched out cat images on a piece of paper- I harvested all the little punches and glued them on the cat outline to create this:

Thursday, April 9, 2009

monster angel

I was reading the swap bot forum and came across someone who had been flaked on in the Monster under the Bed swap. I decided to try my hand at monster manufacturing and sent her a larger monster and her 3 boys mini monsters.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Favorite movie ATCs

The theme of this swap was to send an atc that represented your favorite movie. I have a few favorites but I picked Random Harvest and Wizard of Oz.




Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Mickey Mouse

An upcoming ATC swap is featuring a Mickey theme, so here is my attempt.



Here is the atc I received from disneyrider

Raw food recipe swap

Well, just sending recipes and ideas didn't seem like enough so I made a raw themed ATC to send to each of my partners.

stuff swap

I'm in a few swaps that you send mostly store bought items- tea, cocoa, chocolate, notecards, candles, the like. I made a few pair of earrings to send to the girl I am swapping with in Australia.

handmade jewelry swap

In this swap we had to make a piece of jewelry that we though our partner would like. My partner doesn't wear earrings and likes industrial jewelry. I went to the hardware store and bought nuts, washers, gaskets, drain plug chain and added some rabies tag holders and tags. I came up with these necklaces to send.


The next one's a bit funny- she can switch the tags to suit her style.


My partner also likes photography and odd trees so I sent a photo I took and developed by hand when I was doing b/w photography.