Recent works

I am so bad about remembering to post anything here. I'm not sure that anyone even sees it but on the off chance you are out there and you are looking, comment and let me know what you think!

I just finished some 4x4 tip ins for a swapbot swap. The theme was time. Here they are:

I did a swap where you sent 9 atc's to one person. I used some I'd already made and included some new ones. Here's the whole sheet I mailed:

OK, so maybe small wasn't the best option for that picture. LOL But, its done now. I've probably posted most of those except the one I salvaged from the future floor wax experiment.

I made a pretty Geisha ATC but I haven't scanned it yet. I'll try to do that tomorrow.

Swap-bot: Ice-Breaker swap DIGITAL

I am participating in a digital ice breaker swap with a photo scavenger hunt. Here are my instructions:

On the day I close requests for sign up, I'll email each of you with a different survey to do AND the photo scavenger hunt below. You are then to fill up that survey, along with pictures of the hunt and email them to your partners. After which, their partners will have to fill up that survey too and email it back to them.

Since it's simple, free and shouldn't take that much of your time, you'll have 3 partners each and 1.5 weeks to do your survey/hunt & email them.

• Try to give detailed answers and not one-liners. - At least get 80% of the hunt done. (You may find some pictures online, but most of them you'll have to take yourself.)
• Answers for survey/hunt are not required to be different for each partner.
• If you're uncomfortable in answering some questions, just say so :)
• You may have your pictures on your blog/ flickR etc. No need to be in email. Not too small, not too big. Around 350px in width, 500px in height.

Photo Scavenger Hunt! 1. Your pet. (If you don't have one, then any animal.)

1. Something in your favourite colour.

2. A clothing that you regret buying.

3. Something that represents Freedom to you.

4. You/ someone you know dressed up for Halloween.

5. An activity you enjoy doing.

6. Something circular.

7. Something that will make you laugh.

8. The weather today.

9. Yourself.

My surveys have been mailed out. Now for the photo portion of the swap. Enjoy!

1. Something in my favorite color: a skirt in purple. This also happens to be one of my favorite skirts!



2. Clothing I regret buying: This would be a formal dress with scrunchy stuff in the middle that made me like rather like a drag queen. Needless to say, the tags are still on it.




3. Something that represent freedom to me: A very basic freedom that hasn't been around long. The freedom to love and befire




4. Someone dressed for Halloween: I was a computer bug!!! My antennae are made from laptop memory and my wand is a cd.



5. An activity I enjoy doing: crafting



6. Something circular: This is my women's group at church. Our name is the Circle of Friends.



7. Something that will make you laugh: Blooper doing the chicken dance! :-)



8. The weather today: beautiful night to go watch the boys of summer



9. Me: the Anime version! I wish i could remember what website generated this but I like it.



So....there it is! #3 was the only pic I grabbed from the net. I had an idea to take one myself but didn't have the opportunity.

Post it note thingy

This has a magnet on the back to hang on the fridge. The pencil is wrapped in stamped paper and the sticky notes are holding themselves on there now until I decide the best way to mount them.

Bookmark

This bookmark is made with shrink film and chalk pastels with bead and wire accents. The pictures don't do it justice and just realized I completely chopped off the ribbon that actually marks your page in the book! Oh well....I hope you get the general idea.

More Random ATC's

Some of my scans are bad. Don't worry. That nasty scanner has been replaced because the printer attached to it sucked too!

This one was done for a challenge where you could only use scrap paper and something had to be stamped. The words embrace difference are stamped then embossed with Ranger distress powder.

This one was also part of the scrap paper challenge. I used distress powder on the dog bone. Made it feel like a real milkbone!

3rd scrap challenge. The swirly jig is actually the negative from something I cut out with my Cricut.

Gesso & Fun Foam background technique. Didn't turn out as cool as I thought it would because I couldn't find the foam shapes I really wanted.

This was watercolored and has a versamark watermark background. It shows up really dark on the scan for some reason.

Melted Pearls Technique

I'm not sure where I found the instructions for this technique using pearlex and embossing powder but I like the distressed look it produced. The rope at the bottom is french-knitted hemp twine.

Craftster.org 100 Themes Challenge Part I

I am attempting to participate in the craftster.org ATC 100 Themes Challenge. They have posted a list of 100 themes and you make 1 ATC per theme. Here is a sampling of my first attempts:

#1 - Introduction

#2 - Love

#23 - Cats

#24 - No Time

#67 - Playing the Melody
(This one is also my first time with alcohol inks)

#70 - 67% (outside of flip top card)

#70 - 67% (inside of flip-top card)

I'll post more as I complete more for this challenge.