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ATC love.....

I especially love when an envelope of ATC's turn up in my mailbox. Small pieces of someone's personality all in one little card.
Here's what Anastasia sent me this week....

Thanks! My collection, it grows.....

I think I can....

made an ATC today ...I call it " Harriet likes to dance....."

She is a small experimental collage that was to help me decide if I should embark on a project that I have been thinking about since I first saw these  magical horses.
I then came across these wonderful collages......
And then yesterday, I discovered shisomama's collage a day project  and decided it was time to stop thinking and just do it!

I'm going to attempt to do complete one of my small people every day for a month. If I can manage that then I really want to  continue on until I reach the 100 mark. My one year blog anniversary is fast approaching and I think that this is a good way to celebrate reaching my first "birthday".

Who knows what this will lead onto?

Come back tomorrow to meet the first of my "small people".

almost a forest

the rest of the ATC's for the swap bot "tree" swap....

paper collage, watercolour and stamped text - the Hebrew text page that I used for the leaves came courtesy of the lovely Julie  who also has a thing for trees....

and two ATC's for some private swaps I've organised....

hand drawn pigment pen , watercolour and silver foil on vintage text page.

Off to do a workshop in another form of paper craft tomorrow....I'll be learning to make a Coptic handstitched book with it's own box to keep it in...all going well , photos tomorrow night!

bit fond of trees myself....

some ATC's I've been working on recently...

Tree series one....collage, pigment pen and water colour

Tree series two....collage ,pen and stamped text

Most of my ATC's can be found here......

japanese girls.....

 

"Kameko"

and "Kiyoko"...

two more ATC dolls....pigment marker,gouache, silver foil and collage on an acrylic background.

still cutting and pasting....

My calendar pages for both swaps are finished! ( pictures soon...)
One lot went out last week and the second lot, along with Jo's and Anastasia's will be in the post on Monday!
So ,naturally I had to find something else to do with all of my spare time......ATC art dolls of course!

I have just sent out my dolls for a swap- bot swap and joined a Yahoo group that make and trade ATC art dolls. These are a few of my first efforts.....

Somehow, an awful lot of the paper and photos meant to go into the (mostly) old paper packs seems to be getting diverted.....by the way you can now buy these , the wallpaper packs and text packs from "meet me at Mike's", 106 Bridge Rd, Richmond,Victoria, 3121.

Be sure to say hi! to Pip from me.....I can't wait to get down to Melbourne and visit the store as it sounds like such a me kind of place.....

little pictures....

Now that all my work for Morphe II is complete and the exhibition is about to open ( very excited about that) I have at last made the time to get back to a bit of artwork. With this in mind I signed up for my first two ATC swaps...

These were for the "oh so Blue!" swap - I decided to use mixed media for my set.

These were for the "handpainted ATC"swap. You were only allowed to draw or paint- no digital,collage or anything besides your own artwork.Now I'm not sure if I bent the rules a little by using a printed page to draw onto ....regardless I am really happy with the result and hope that I will be excused if I have broken the rules!

I had a botanical theme in mind but couldn't decide how to approach it. I came across this journal page of Marieke at Treats & Treasures and as soon as I saw those little bows on brown paper and white paint I knew what I wanted to do! Her blog is just wonderful - I am always inspired by the collaged pages of drawings..really, go and have a look!

I used a page from an old Yates Garden Guide as my background for the pen and waterclour drawings.
They're off to the USA tomorrow....and I'm off to do a few more of these little drawings....