Last ATC for 2009

Hi All
Welcome to my last post for 2009.   I decided last night that I wanted to enter a WTA (winner takes all) lottery and of course I have nothing available to enter.   I have had very little mojo for ATC's of late and only started this one about 5 hours ago.  Naturally I had to wait for the paint to dry, so a few games of Uno with the girls passed the time.  It is nice that the mojo was found just in the nick of time.

Oh what to do. Kept looking at images and nothing jumped out at me and said do me. I ended up going through some images I have printed for a Gypsy swap in January. Now I have to find another image but that is cool.

So here is my entry to the PaperArts yahoo group WTA lottery. Perhaps in 2010 my luck will change, and my numbers come up.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.

Till Next Time
XoX

ATC's for the live swaps

Each month on a Sunday now there is a live swap, generally at 10am so some of us grab a coffee and something to munch.  This is the one day a month I end up at Macca's (McD's/Mc-Chucks/mcDonalds) and have hotcakes.   I am thankful this is now on a Sunday as the girls have nothing on and between swimming twice a week and karate once a week, there isn't much space for other things. 

Anyway here are the ATC's I have made for the past two swaps.

Finally a Non fattening cupcake.   I used watercolour paper for the packground and a Cupcake stamp and my beautiful Twinkling H2O's.  I just love these.  Fantastic for a little splash of colour.

The cupcakes were traded at the August 2009 Swap.

This is one of my favourite images from Paper Imagery Designs.   Such an innocent look.   The background is a baby wipe that I used to clean up the overspray from the Distress inks I used on another project.

This ATC was also traded at the August 2009 swap.

This ATC only came to me at 8.30am on Sunday morning.  By 9.15am I had made 8.   Nothing was forming on Saturday night so I left it for the night and came back to it the next day.   The red really sets off this image.  This is a paper that I bought at the Scrapbook Expo back in June 2009.  I knew I would use it eventually.

This ATC was for the September 2009 swap.

So much to share

It has been such a long time since I have had anything to post and share with you all.  But finally I have done it.  Plugged in the scanner and scanned pretty much most of what I have done lately. 

These four ATC's were for the yahoo group "The sum of all ATC's".  This was another lady lucky dip where you chose four titles and send them in and receive four different ones in return.   My returns came in the post yesterday and they are all fantastic.  Love them all.

I chose to do Eve, Silent Screen Star, Silver Screen Star and Domestic Goddess.

Silver Screen Star - Audrey Hepburn
What a classic this lady is.  So elegant.  This is my favourite.
Nothing beats the classic lines of this.

Domestic Goddess - Martha Stewart.
I attempted to find an image of her in her prison outfit but I ran out of time. For the American's Martha knows it all - apparently.

Eve.
As there are some who do not like nude at all, Eve was slightly modernised with a bikini and bling. This is one of my favourites.

Silent Screen Star - Anita Page.
What a stunner she was.  Nice and simple which suited the style of films made way back then.

Live Swap

Finally a live swap that is not on a Saturday and I can actually get there. This year I have not been to many of the Saturday due to other committments, mainly the girls swimming lessons.

I decided to use my PID www.paperimagerydesigns.com image of Marshall as I was not doing the image swap this month as it was 4*4. Behind the Microscope slide is pages from a 1952 German Dictionary that I picked up earlier this month. I quite like how this came together.


Now if only I had more of this image I could have made more ATC's.

Till next time
XoX

Asian ATC

A few months ago I was one of the lucky 20 who was chosen to receive an Asian themed kit from the lovely Valerie. All of the recipents had to make an ATC from this kit and send it to Valerie so she in turn could send it to the winner. I as always was running late and sent it direct to the winner.

Time for a Dance?

Here is my latest creation. Made especially for the two winners of ATC-World Winner Takes All lottery. They are quite fun, and even better when you are the winner. Even after two months I still have the odd ATC come into my mail box. Sadly, though it looks like some went MIA in the post. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Anyway, I love this one. The background is actually a paper napkin/serviette. Last year I received some gorgeous vintage French Sheet Music from Ursula in the Netherlands. Added one of my many PID images and a couple of embellishments and hey presto - 3 ATC's.


Now to do Craig for the PID Theme Swap - he is almost done.

One of the projects I did get done this long weekend is the layout for the Perfect Pearls Class that I am teaching at the scrapbook cupboard next week. I have not taken a photo but very happy with the result. When I get the layout back I will put it on display for all to see.

Till Next Time
XoX

Two more down

Hi All

Of the 8 cards I said I would do for the Advanced ATC group I managed to get three done. I have already shown you all the first one -Lady in a Leaf Dress. Here are the last two. Lucy in the sky with diamonds and Princess and the Frog. It took me a while to decide on what to do. With the ATC Diamonds I have actually used a photo from 1969 of my Mum. It suited the ATC so well. I like the way the background turned out which inspired me towards this. THe background on the Diamonds card is nice and shimmery as I used Glimmer Mist in Graphite and a little Antique Brass.




Enjoy, til next time XoX

Finally, it is done. After much thinking, pondering and gee what will I do this time. To me each one has to be better than the last or at least very different. In the end I just sat down and played and was happy with the end result. I must say that for this image this is one of the times where I have enjoyed the larger image.

Now to move onto the rest of my February swaps that are due and the image for March.

Till next time

XoX

Umm not much happening

Well it has been 12 days since my last post. There has not been much in the way of creative juices flowing. I am in an ATC swap with the Scrapbook Cupboard this year and the theme for January is Zodiac. Boy am I stumped for what to do. I have a prototype card but do not like it. Will have to think if something. They are due Sunday.



Other than that dilemma I have created an ATC for the PaperImageryDesigns Yahoo group. This is the first time I have participated in one of the challenges which was red, pink and green. My green is the little flower button at the bottom of the card. I made three with the other two to be swapped out within the group. Suffice to say they are currently on their way to the new owner and I have two cards coming down under.

Till nex time
XoX

Ralph ATC

Hi all, here it is my first ATC of 2009. This is another one that I have been pondering on what to do. The background is lumiere paint in Halo Blue-Gold, I overstamped it with my crackle effect stamp and black stazon. Under the Microscope slide is the image Ralph from Paper Imagery Designs . I stamped my Tim Holtz Ticket Stamp on to red card and put it together with Copper tape. I quite like this card and though it might look like I did a lot of work to get it, I didn't really. The thinking about what to do was the hard part. Now off to do 6 more and send them to the USA.