June Hand Swaps

These hands were created for the June hand swap for the Everything But ATC's Yahoo group

dragonfly hand                             floral hand

vintage hand                    romance hand

June Tag Swaps

These tags were made for the June tag swap for the Everthing But ATC's Yahoo group.

angel tag                               artist's choice tag

jester tag                                            steampunk tag

sunflower tag                                              vintage travel tag

Victorian Visitng Cards

This started out as a swap-bot swap 5 for 5. It tied in with creating a mini-zine on Victorian visiting card etiquette. After I made my mini-zine I also used it for a mini-zine swap since I had quite a few, so made more visiting crads to send along with the zines as a bonus. As you can tell I obviously enjoyed making the calling cards. Most of mine have names hidden under a flap like the first example shown here. I used paper, victorian images, stickers, lace, sharpie pen, sharpie ultra fine markers, gel pen, and border punches.

Summer Hats

This was a hand drawn ATC swap to create fun or fantastic summer hats. I used sharpie pen and copic markers - what fun!!!

Bees

This ATC swap was to be hand drawn and contain bees, hives and/or honeycomb. I went cartoonish in style using copic markers, sharpie pen, and sparkle gel pen.

Anime Boys or Girls

This was a hand drawn swap and characters had to be drawn in anime style, male or female.  My first attempt, and I struggled with even posting it, but it is what it is and that is how we learn, by doing. Played around with some shading with my copic markers, need much more practice with that also.

Journey Around The World

This swap was done for the All Things Tim Yahoo Group. Participants had to design a 6x6 chunky page highlighting where they live in the world and use some of Tim Holtz product in their work.

This is my front cover. I used Ranger acrylic paint dabbers on the edge of the pages. I used a vintage postcard as a large pocket - Tim uses a lot of vintage images. Tim incorporates metal into his work, so I added a metal tag to the front of my piece.

I decided to create tags to tie in with Tim's style, he does a lot of tags.  I used distress inks on the tags and more vintage photos also along the style of Tim's work.

On my back page I used vintage postcards and some of Tim's vintage stickers.