Special Mail :O)

Just wanted to show you all a little delight

that came through my mail box last week...
I know...Gorgeous isn't it...
this Stunning card and Amazing ATC

just thrilled me to bits when I opened the envelope...
Made by the most incredible talented

Mel Goodsell,

who I must say is just as Sweet as her ART!

Thankyou so much Mel, I Treasure them :O)

while I'm in the thanking mode.. just want to say a BIG THANKYOU

to all who left lovely comments in my last post

you really know how to make a girl smile :O)

I can't wait to show you some of the creations I'm going to make for

The Stamping Queen

Vintage Bathing Beauties

This is a set of 'Vintage Bathing Beauties' I made for a swap of that theme...

the journaling on them reads,

"Winter days always seem longer than the days of Summer"

gorgeous bit I used are - Fancy Pants Printed Paper, Stampin Up Print Pattern Stamp, Stampin Up It's a Date Stamp, Versa Color Lagoon Blue Ink pad, Versa Color Black ink pad, Pigment pen, Vintage images from Art-e-zine, & my sewing machine....

Look 4 Amusement & you will find it..... All around you.

Shhhhh..... don't tell anyone....I got some new stamps the other day... LOL!

and had to get them all inky straight away...

this is what I made a little ATC (artist trading card)

for a RED swap I am involved with...

This is the set of stamps I used aren't they SCRUMMY!

you can click HERE to find them...

Amusing bits I've used are, Artistree 'It's a Mans World' stamps, making Memories hand stamp, Catslife Press look Stamp, Stampin Up - It's a date stamp, Stampin Up Cranberry Crisp Ink Pad, I'm sorry I can't remember the brand of PP it was really cool, if I can remember I'll come and edit this later, the journaling is out of my head and computer generated, & My sewing machine...

Edith's Mail

This is my 2nd go at this weeks Wednesday Stamper's

Turquoise Challenge,

my first is 2posts down.

I made this for a 'Postage' theme ATC swap...

and I gave it a distinctly Australian Theme as well, by using a Vintage Australian Postage Stamp, and the image of a vintage box of matches as the 'stamp'....

Amusing pieces I used for this ATC are - Crafty Individuals Script Stamp, the same paper I made for my 1st turquoise ATC, Artchix Studio 'wings', vintage stamp, Flourish PP (matchbox image), computer generated journaling, black versa ink & embossing powder,

and my sewing machine..

Red was Arthur's favourite....

You know I have a lovely blog friend and her name is REIN

and every so often she offers the most delightful vintage images for paper artists to use, this is one of Reins lovely images...
Thankyou very much Rein... Watch for the post,

I made a few of these ATC, there is one coming for you very soon.

I've renamed this little chap Arthur...
I am involved in a swap titled "Shades of Grey"

so ofcourse being me, I had to put a bit of humour into my ATC...

so here you have it...

"out of all the shades of grey, Red was Arthur's Favourite"

{My sense of humour really confuses my children sometimes, they each told me that red isn't a shade of grey....LOL!!!!}

This is the paper I made to use with my ATC,
I wet some heavy watercolour paper first, then splodged {yes that is a technical term of mine} some black ink onto the wet surface, dried it with the heat gun,
Then I mixed some grey paint up, dipped some crochet cotton in the paint and lay the painty cotton across the paper.. this created those lines you can see on the paper.
then using this same paint I painted my Paper Artsy Numbers Background stamp and repeatedly stamped the paper... and there you have it....
Shades of Grey Background Paper.
if you want to save shades of grey on your computer and use it sometime...

Please go right ahead :O)

a little felt ATC

I can show you this now, as it's safely in it's new home...

the most delighfully Gorgeous Mel and I decided to do an ATC swap together,

not any swap you see.... it was to be a FELT ATC swap....

so here is my Artist Trading Card for Mel...

this really was a smiley project,

you know those ones where you smile the whole time you make something...

My title for this little softie ATC is...

"Home should be as Warm & Cozy as a Quilt"

Little Red Bird

I've made this little ATC 'RED' themed swap...

The journaling reads -

'there is no sweeter music then the song of my little red bird'

Sweet bits I've used are - K&Co PP, which I brushed over with water then Stampin Up Cranberry Crisp ink, Catslife Press Bird stamp, Autumn Leaves Flourish Stamp, Versa Color ink pad, black embossing powder, and printed the journaling onto some scrap red paper which I sanded around the outside edge... and ofcourse my newly serviced machine, which just hums at the moment.. ahhh..lovely sewing with a newly serviced machine :o)

I love it when other peoples ART comes to live at my home..

Oh I am so thrilled my tiles have come arrived today from Tammy's Tiles Swap.. This first picture is the tiles that these gorgeous girls have made for me...

My Theme was 'Rusty Old Junk'... and look at what they have made me...

Love them, Love each and every tiny little one..

So thankyou in order left to right, Philippa, Sam, Sharon, Tammy, Jaki, Maria, Glennie, Debbie, Carole, Brenda, Pansy, & Ann...

I will do 4 more to add to your beautiful work and I am going to frame them for my scrap space.

This second picture is a refresher as it's down a bit on my blog, but these are the tiles I sent back to Tammy, one for each of the girls, who sent me one.. we all had our own themes and it was Great Fun...

and If you haven't seen a tiles swap before each of these little squares is just 1.5" square..

Tiny Tiles

Oh this was such a fun Swap, I've just been involved with... over at Tammy's Blog

these little tiles look tiny cause they really are!.. each one is only one & a half inches square..

so it was loads of fun finding embellishments small enough to fit each one... Everyone in this swap had given a design brief of what they wanted their tile's theme to be.. We used 'Collections Tiles' which come in a sheet and you just pop them out...

Anyway these are the tiles I have made for the swap... & if you're in the swap.... have fun guessing till yours comes... ;o)

Thanks again Tammy, I'm sure it was tons of work to organise this, and am very grateful and can't wait to get my little tiles back... I am going to frame them together and hang in my craft space... Oh by the way incase your wondering ..... My theme was RUSTY OLD JUNK..... LOL

Posties Been Today :o)

Just wanted to show you all what the Postie delivered today from Singapore.

Pearl & I have just done this really fun swap.. Thankyou Pearl what a fun parcel to get.. I hope mine arrives soon for you...

On the right you can see the beautiful handmade card that Pearl made, all those little circles are punched out of handpainted paper, Neat Idea hey...

Pearl I am going to have sooooo much fun with all of these Treasures, lot's of things I've not seen or haven't been able to get my hands on, so thankyou Very Much...

This was so much fun to do, If you haven't done a swap with someone have a go, it's lovely when mr Postie arrives... I'm off to play now... {She smiles happily to herself}.... TTFN Gillian :o)