March Yellow Swap, part 2

And here's what I sent to my swap partner, Patty:

 I had the hardest time creating the card. I'm not sure why, and as you can see, it didn't turn out yellow. I loved it though. I kept seeing people using vintage images for their cards, so I found this on a vintage book page. I thought it looked like she was doing a little spring cleaning.
The tag, was fun. The rose, I bought with a string of others from an antique store, and I knew I had to use one in my swap this month. The flower underneath it was floating around my craft spot. The buttons and chick image are vintage as well.
Here's my little (or not) bit of destash for my partner.

Some asian paper, butterfly cut outs, a tag, some yellow burlap ribbon, some vintage ribbon, a matboard frame, a some buttons, some miscellaneous pieces found in my supply, a couple die cuts and some vintage bunny rabbits.

I hope she liked what I sent her.

March Yellow Swap

I signed up for Linda's Yellow March Swap at A Swap for All Seasons. My partner that was mailing to me was Becky at The Capricious Crafter. She asked what I liked, I told her I loved vintage, especially trims and linens. I received her package on Friday, I couldn't wait to open it, so I opened it at work. Here's what I pulled out of the outer envelope:

 I opened the rest while I was on break, here's what was inside:

 And here's what was inside those:

A handmade dishcloth, two handmade tags, a handmade card, some buttons, some chocolate (which I am very proud to say, I haven't eaten, I tossed it in my Easter basket), some trims, a handmade pincushion (from vintage cloth, the first picture gives you a better look at it), and the tag that was on the outside package.

I love it all. I felt very spoiled this month. Thank you so much, Becky.

Red February Swap

The other day I posted what I sent for the Red Swap, but I forgot to post what I received. Here's what it looked like when I pulled them out of the envelope:

 And here's what was in the packets:

lots of paper pieces, a cute little garland. The card looks to made with several die cut pieces, love it.
Thank you Valery Anne.

I've decided if I'm going to be continuing these swaps, I should make a box, or alter one to keep the tags and cards in.
Add that to my list of things to do.

Valentines

I decided to make some valentines for some of my friends, they became very simple and easy, but I like them. To get more out of my paper, I just cut a regular sized card in half, and then wrote on the backs of them. I kept wishing I had a heart punch, but then I was at the dollar store buying things for a swap and I notice a pack of foam hearts, problem solved.

On the top, I used patterened paper, some metallic purple, a piece of marbled paper (I've been saving this for the right thing, I think it looks pretty good), and a foam heart. On the bottom, I used a background piece from something else in my collection, a piece of pink cardstock, the same metallic paper as above and a foam heart.

 On the top, I used striped paper, a foam heart, and a leather heart. On the bottom, I wove two pieces of script paper together, added pink paper strips to frame it, pink jewels in the corners (I have no idea why they showed up green), red mulberry paper, and the middle of a heart doily.

 On the top, red striped paper, a scrap from the floor and a foam heart. On the bottom, some scroll paper, handmade purple paper, purple mulberry paper and a foam heart.

 On the top, hearts from packaging, white cardstock and red foam hearts. On the bottom, script paper from above, and the rest of the gold doily.

 I love the piece on the top, it's not done yet. It's a piece of burlap layered with canvas that I added red ink to and a heart cut from birch bark that I bought here. The bottom is red mulberry paper with a heart created from a pipe cleaner.

 The music paper was packaging from a swap, the red heart is a tag from a stuffed animal. The bottom is the rest of the packaging from the swap.

This is red cardstock, red mulberry paper and a piece of fabric.

I wanted to do some really elaborate pieces, but that's not how they turned out. I like how these turned out.

February Valentine's Day Swap

I joined in A Swap for All Season's February Swap. We had to create a Valentine's Day tag, and a card for our partner and send some red destash. Here's what I sent my partner:

It's red paper, layered with red mulberry paper, and a white mulberry paper heart. I added a Happy Valentine's Day to the heart

You can't really tell, but I put dictionary paper on the background, covered it in a red sheer fabricy paper, put a red patterned paper and a red fuzzy heart sticker on the top. The trim was white, but I colored it red with an ink pad. The fibers are some twine, a sheer ribbon and a metallic-y ribbon.
 I find it fun to make my tag in just the color we are assigned for each month. It gives me a little more of a challenge to see what I can come up.

I may have sent a bit more than a little bit of destash, I hope that doesn't count against me. There's some vintage valentines, some fabric, some lace, buttons, random doodads, and a vintage rose pin.

Valentine ATC Swap

I received some exciting mail today. My return ATC's from Kimberly at ArtJoyStuff's swap.

I was on my way to lunch, so I opened the package there, unfortunately I didn't have a scissors, so I didn't get to see what was in the heart package below until I got home. Here's how they were packaged up:

 And to all who got mine, I didn't realize it was such a big deal to package them cutely, I'll do better next time. When I've done other swaps, we just mail the items to the hostess, there's no packaging to return to the players.
Here's what was in the packages:

Starting in the upper right corner, they are from Lisa Napoli (no blog), Sylvia, Liz Waring, and Kimberly.

I'm rather tickled I got something of Liz's. I follow her on her blog, and I get to see all the neat things she makes and I've wanted one for awhile. Don't get me wrong, I love the others too, but I'm very excited to have one of Liz's.
I've been trying to collect other people's art for awhile, and I have a bookshelf I will add these to. Thank you ladies for the beautiful works of art.

Valentine Swap

I joined Kimberly at ArtJoyStuff's Valentine Swap, and promptly forgot when I was supposed to have them in the mail. I was working full-time at my temp job last week, and for some reason thought they were due in the mail a bit after I finished the week. Thursday morning, I read Michele's post at Nook and Cranny about her Valentines, and realized I better check the mail-by date, only to find they were supposed to be postmarked by Saturday. So, Friday night, I jumped in. I always find the ATC's to be so beautiful and full from Kimberly's swaps, I tried to do that with mine, but I learned I can't do over the top. I was a little worried mine would be too plain, but I really like them. Here they are:

 I've decided covering things with dictionary paper is my thing. I love how backgrounds look with it. The hearts were found in some pack I bought somewhere, they feel like mulberry paper. The buttons are vintage, and the "Love" is a brad, I decided I needed to glue the edges down, otherwise it would have bounced around and not stayed in place. I loved the original 4 I made, I had to make myself one, and since four ATC's fit on the dictionary page, I made four more. I do have the below three left if anyone wants to trade. I'm also listing them on my Etsy store, so hopefully they'll fly away fast.

It's been a long time since I've listed anything newly made on Etsy, they probably won't sell.