ATCs in the post

These are the ATCs that I made for last month's UKATC swap: Dahling, Chocolate Cake and Retro Girl. I was late sending but then I've not received my swaps either, so I'm not the only sinner :). Stamps, left to right, are: Rubber Romance, Hero Arts and Tim Holtz.

ATC round up

I've been working on some ATCs for swaps over the last week and since I have no new cards to show, I thought I'd post the ATCs on here:

The first one is for "AWalk in the Woods", for a swap at the Stamp Attic.

I've stamped the lovely tree/water scene onto glossy paper that I've brayered with a Kaleidocolour inkpad.

I've stamped some leaves from an Inkadinkado Inchies set onto the Bazzil card for the ATCbase and added another inchie on foam pads to finish it.

The other ATC is for a UKATC group swap, with the theme yellow and green. It's a sort-of free ATC:). The green paper is a magazine freebie (very lightweight, mounted onto card). The tree is from a set of Paper Artsy stamps that Igot when I renewed my Craft Stamper subscription and the bird is last month's free stamp with Craft Stamper. I love the bird! The bird is stamped onto Glimmer Misted paper and some Stickles jazz up its crown and the tree behind it. The feathers and the bird's legs both came from my husband's fly-tying supplies - shh! Don't tell... :)

Can't see the wood for the trees

A set of ATCs for the UKATC group's swap. The theme is Trees, which just leaves me with the tricky problem of which of my (too many) tree images to use :)

This is an Art Impressions stamp, used on a Glimmer Misted background, with some snow added to the branches with a white opaque pen. I've tried to add some hill/landscape detail with chalk inks. The ginger card used to mount the trees was part of the packaging for my Sugar Nellie stamp order the other day - waste not want not!

ATC Time Again

March is going to be very busy; I'm committed to several ATC swaps and want to get them ready without too much panic. So, still on an ATC theme, here is my monthly UKATC swap: three ATCs using Sugar Nellie's Leanne Ellis images.

All use the same Glimmer Misted background. Tweet has a printed paper scrap hill, the birdhouse stamped onto it from the image, a flower in her hair and a bird from Lisa's Altered Images perching on the skewed birdhouse.

Rosey is stamped onto glossy paper and coloured with Copics and with Jelly Roll pens. The flowers have Glossy Acents on them, the background circles are coloured with a white gel pen.

Luvvy has an Elusive Images heart stamped onto the background. Again, she's been stamped onto glossy paper and coloured with Copics. Her skirt is paper pieced. Ribbon came from my blogging "sister" Vanja and the heart that she's holding is made from gold card with alcohol inks used on it.

So there they are: blonde, brunette and almost black haired :)

Sketch & Stash Challenge 2

Having seen from the rules that it's ok to enter more than once, I couldn't resist a second entry to this challenge as this card fits it so well ; it's a perfect mix of new and neglected stash :).

The champagne bottle is from a new design plate by Elusive Images that I found irresistable, it's painted with some H2Os that I keep forgetting I have. The little tag is from a bag of tags I was given in '07 as part of a 12 Days of Christmas swap on UKATC. The "Celebrate" comes from a pack of tiny clear stamps that I got at Ally Pally last autumn and haven't used. To my surprise they are clear but they don't self-cling. Hmm, perhaps that's why there were 3 sets for £1! The paper with the bubbles on is from the Stamp Attic. Finally, the fibres that are wrapping the card come from a pack I bought in the US called Adornaments, some years ago, that I've never used. I found them when I was looking for something else and decided they would be great to use on my cards.

The card is for a fellow UKATC member who had a cancer scare and has just got the all clear - yay!

Birthday Cards & ATCs

I had some gorgeous handmade cards for my birthday: Tilda is from Emily at UKATC group and Especially For You is from Sara L, another UKATCer. The Martini Bella is from my stamping "sister" Janet.

I also got a bunch of ATCs from the UKATC group: thank you Chris L, Helen, Sandra, Roz, Gerry, Hope and Sara J.

Still haven't got over this chest infection, the cards were a lovely lift, thanks everyone :)

ATC Time

The theme swap for UKATC this month is Ladies. I used a clear stamp set called Unruly Girls Club by Stampington. They are coloured with chalks, masked and the background stamped with a background stamp of handbags from Hero Arts, using Versamark, then chalks rubbed over the ink. Chalks are set with cheap hairspray then some peel-offs, flowers and a sentiment added.

Post Bonanza!

Look what was waiting when I came home from work today!

I was lucky enough to win Vanja's Blog Candy. My "sister" from Serbia sent me some lovely ribbons, some glitter glue, a clear Father Christmas stamp (doesn't show up well in the photo) and some gorgeous images including Whiff of Joy - wow! There was also a cute card in the package - thanks Vanja :).

I got a lovely card from Sharon in Australia, another of my "sisters" - great card, thank you.

And finally I got swap ATCs back from UKATC, themes are snow and snowmen and copper/bronze.

I have a few days off now and look forward to some crafting.

ATCs sent

Here is my December swap for UKATC group, just scraping under the wire for December!

ATC Roundup

I needed to catch up on some ATCs this weekend. Here is a lovely set that I got from Andrea for my November UKATC swap, the scan is ok but they look really good in the flesh, thanks Andrea!

I've made ATCs for the December themes on UKATC. I always have good intentions to take part - and always run out of time! December is a month to get things done early, or not at all. So here's my snowman card. The sentiment shows up much better in real life, it says "Let it Snow". Fluffy stuff for snow, circles cut with nestabilities dies, buttons and eyes use Stickles.

And the other theme is bronze/copper. I used my Crafty Secrets stamps, embossed on beige card, water coloured. The background paper has "A Little Note" embossed and there's the last of the ribbon used up that came from a chocolate box.

ATCs received - Pub Signs & Birds and Bees

Today I had my swaps back from UKATC's pub sign swap. Everyone else seems to have been sensible enough to put the pub name on the front of their ATc - unlike me! Lovely ATCs and all so different.






Yesterday this lovely set arrived from ATCsforall.com, from the Birds & the Bees swap.

Ghostiwobbles Mystery Card

Astonishingly, it's still only October and we had quite a lot of snow overnight, which was still lying on the ground in places at the end of today!

Today I visited a friend and I haven't set foot in my craft room (gasp!). But just as I thought I would have nothing to post, this came today.

There is no clue to the sender, other than that they are part of the UKATC Group, it's signed Happy Haunting from UKATC Ghostiwobbles. Quite a few people on the list have posted that they've received a card, but as yet Ghostiwobbles remains anonymous.

So far I've held out and I haven't eaten the chocolate ghost... yet! Thank you Ghostiwobbles, whoever you are :)

ATCs sent and received

It's Wednesday and I'm still sticking to my stamp diet :). This morning I finished off this set of ATCs for a UKATC swap. The theme is pub names, which I thought was a brilliant idea. So here are my four pubs, hopefully their names are obvious...

Monday night was Stamp Attic club night. Here are my Hallowe'en swaps, one is still to come. Next month the theme is Bonfire Night. Also next month I have agreed to do a demo as they are running out of new ideas and people to ask. My demo is very secret. Sadly this is mainly because I don't yet know what to do! Oh well, I've a whole month to come up with something...

You've Got Mail...

My October swaps from Sheila of UKATC arrived yesterday, along with a lovely decoupage RAK. The ATCs are very dimensional, which doesn't show up too well in the photo. The daisy is decoupaged onto a cuttlebug background and the blue card is made from immaculately done teabag folding. Thanks Sheila!

October ATCs

Each month on the UKATC Yahoo group there is a 1 to 1 swap of three different ATCs. This month I'm swapping with Sheila. I've made these two bird ATCs, using Lisa Volrath's images. TThey co-ordinate with my wrapped Tilda card.