Add an Umbrella

This is also a "interactive" (a.k.a movable card) as the left arm can swing & point to the umbrella.

Swing cards - done at last

Four swing cards - ready to go out. Here's one photo.

Steampunk ATC cards

Awesome butterfly ATC

Zetti ATC & Teesha homage

 I am happy with my zetti-style animals, but not sure how to do the words in her style. I will upload the Teesha Moore card later.

Window ATC

Do I call this "mixed cathedral" window ATC?

Zendala - or not?

"Happy Mandala" (to my left) as my first August attempt at a zendala.  Completed in August vut not today. I like it however I do not think it would really count as a zendala.  It is more my mandala-inspired doodle style.

 The zendala swap descriptions expected a circle.  I used much more outlining and some planning for these two.

Sky (fairly abstract ATCs)

I finished two "Sky ATC"s for a swap-bot swap today. The first one (shown on left) used a collage piece I had done about 2 weeks ago - newspaper, tissue box, tissue paper, layers of gel, and part of a black shiny curlique sticker. Today I added lots of blue marker and the result is on the right.

Not such a traditional sky view.



So, I sketched a sky and cloud scene with my new pastel pencils, with a bit of ground. And then cut it out not straight! So, I cut it down more on two sides and mounted it on some blue patterned scrapbook paper.

2 for "Sky ATC" on swap-bot (1 required, and 1 extra)

Names Taken: A beginning

365 days of art sounds like a great thing for me.

"An ATC a day", and "365 ATCs" seemed to be used and I was not ready to say "daily ATC" so here it is, the start to my deck of ATCs.  I love the phrase "tattered edges" although I haven't gotten over to check out that ATC or art blog.

This may also make it easier to keep track of who got what for swaps.  Even better, this should mean that when I receive a comment on a card it will mean more.  I have gotten a few comments like "loved the green bit" or "wonderful detail on the left" that are harder to appreciate if I am not sure which card was received!

I may even have to learn how to post photos from a phone or iPad.

August Mandala

This 6 x 6 inch square mandala was used for the August mandala swap on swap-xxot.com.  Good thing my assigned partner likes green!

If she hated green or orange, I would have made another.

(real) Swing ATC

This is really from August 4th. This is a flat-ish card with swings.  The ropes for the clown's swing are real and 3D, however it is not a swing card.

Swing 'paper doll' ATCs

These are swing cards made using a shrunken version of vintage animal paper dolls.  The elephant card also has the elephant and some clothes cut out for 'paper doll' play and in n envelope on the xxack.

bird Zetti

This was made using a photo from the internet as the base.  It may have come from the National Geographic site. Either end July or one of first 4 days of August. I really like the color contrast.

Gorey alphabet ATC - O

AWL - Airport Warning Light