new atc's

these are atc's i made for a swap called "Retro sewing pattern and dress form ".

i kept the one on the bottom right, and katie kept the one on the bottom left.

i used a variety of gleaned pictures of women who appeared on the front of sewing patterns and added bits of sewing ephemera...buttons, trims, lace, pins, toile, fabric, snaps, hooks and eyes, thread label, etc. and, of course, i sewed on the cards - mostly straight-stitch. the bottom left has a fancy stitch.

it's funny...with a swap, i never know if i have gone in the right direction, but i guess that is what swaps are all about .... personal interpretation!

i need to make more of these!

"Mona Mia"

before adding the elements to the lower right, i thought that the card was finished and still do. i added the elements to conform to spoken "rules": 1 image, 1 embellishment and one something else. i felt that the atc was finished with the image of mona and the embossed gold filigree. i think i pushed too hard. the one embellishment on the right one detracts from the image because it is too bright; the embellishment on the left one is more subtle but very circular and could have been torned in order to incorporate it less intrusively.

i like this one better than the ones above, so i made four similar ones - 1 to keep, and 3 to trade. i love the way the filigree caresses her face, and the heart is subtle so as not to draw the eye too much away from mona's face.

i had been working on these cards for far too long trying to figure out what last little element i could add to make it more "complete". i finally made a decision and just did SOMETHING to complete the project.

on another note, i was too concerned with how someone else might view this card. would i want something so plain and simple as just an image and the filigree? i believe that it was finished at that point.

it is very early in the morning. i am tired. i am rambling.

more "kitten showers"

katie made more atc's: "kitten showers". this was a big hit with the folks in the snagging stampers yahoo group:

http://tinyurl.com/83zy5d

"kitten showers"

in a yahoo group i belong to, snaggingstampers, we trade art supplies. currently, we are having a new year game. for 12 days, for the 12 months of the year, there is a theme and a sponsor. for every person listing items for that month/theme, his/her name is put into a hat for a random drawing and will receive a small gift from the sponsor. these games are fun and just what we need to kick-start the activity again. anyway...the reason that i am explaining this is that one of the sponsors for april posted this:

theme for the day: anything Easter related: eggs, bunnies, candy, Christian, baskets, dressing up, Kitten Showers

kitten showers? huh?! i thought that she made a mistake and meant to write something else. thinking it was a mistake, i took it literally. with me egging her on, my girlfriend, katie, was inspired to make these atc's. take a bow, katie!

by the way, what the sponsor listed is exactly what she meant - a twist on "april showers". i was way off.... i don't know what the sponsor had in mind by posting this, but we ran with it! thank you karen!


notice the single fish...my girlfriend, "the fish girl". see her blog - there is a link on the left.

atc: purses and wallet

these are examples of atc purses that i made for a swap. notice the "explosion" inside.



this is a wallet that i did not swap. i tried out this more elongated shape, adapted from the purses above. it worked.



















i am new at this, so i am having difficulties with picture-spacing. i'm learning.

zetti or not, here i come

with these atc's, i pushed myself out of my comfort zone.

is it zetti yet?

i am keeping this one for the time being.




this goes to a winner of the december "wta x 2" on my yahoo! group: atc_world.



these two are for trade.








if you want to figure out what "zetti" is, visit this site: http://www.zettiology.com/ teesha and tracy moore: blog, rubber stamps, collage sheets and more.

yahoo! group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATC_World/