Day 4

Here's today's package And inside a "captured chick" created by Kim of the Crafty Triathlete. I love this, I believe it's supposed to be like the captured fairies but it's a chick instead. I've always wanted a captured fairy and this piece is way cute.

Sorry about the bad photo, I just realized you can't really see what's in there, but it's a chenille chick with a sign that says Joy, it's got a speckled egg and it's sitting on a wooden spool in some shredded pink paper.

I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings. This is posted nice and early cause I have to work at 8AM.

Day 3

Day 3 was Amy from Crafting by Candlelight. I love the little bag it's in. And inside was this cute 3-cornered bag, I'm not quite sure what to do with it yet.

So far for the items I'm not sure what I'm doing with, I'm just putting them together in the bag Amy made for Day 1.

I've noticed I do that with a lot of my swaps, if I don't know what to do with the items, I have a tendency to leave them in the container they came in. Sometimes I just do that cause I don't want to separate them.

Day 2

Day 2 was me: I made an Egg ornament

I basically picked out some brightly colored paper, cut it into strips with decorative scissors and then used mod podge to glue to to some chipboard egg shapes. The flowers are Prima flowers with a jewel, or some had buttons in the middle.

Day One

Originally, our Day One person was Victoria, but she dropped out, so Amy from Crafting by Candlelight added a few things. She said the bag is handmade And here's what was in the bag:

A set of spring-y clothespins, and an egg. I'm thinking of covering the egg in book pages.

Tomorrow is me, so I'm not that excited about it. I'm trying so hard not to open these packages, I did hide them in a paper bag, so I don't have to see them all piled up on the floor, but it's so hard.

9 Days of Easter Swap

I signed up for a 9 Days of Easter Swap, hosted by Amy of Crafting by Candlelight. It was originally a 12 Days of Easter Swap (like a 12 days of Christmas), but only 9 people signed up. We were supposed to make 9 of the same or similar items to send to Amy and then she would put gifts 1-9 from different people in a box and send them to us. Unfortunately, #1 dropped out and #7 got sick, so Amy added something for #1, and #7 seven might still send us something. I bought myself something at Walmart yesterday and decided to wrap it with the extra tissue paper Amy sent us and add it for #7. Here is what the pile of gifts looks like: I'm going to open one gift a day starting on Saturday and TRY to post it each day. I will take pictures of the item wrapped, and unwrapped and then tell you who it was from with a link to their blog if they have one. I will also tell you how I made my gift when it comes up. I'm having such a hard time not opening them now, I know one person couldn't wait, and they said we have some awesome gifts to open, that doesn't help me. I haven't decided if I'm waiting until Easter to open them or not. I do have an Easter basket that I gathered for myself, plus this swap, plus I might be getting together with my mom's side of the family on Easter, that's a lot to do on Easter, so I might just open them when I get them. What do you think?

Bugs

I know, it's been awhile, I have such a hard time getting myself motivated to do art lately. I did finish some things for a swap on Friday, but it's a surprise swap, so I'll post those later. Here are my cards for the March swap in my CollageATCs yahoo! group The theme was bugs. The tulip picture is from the back of an Our Iowa magazine. The green background is from some memory makers packaging. The bird is from a piece of scrapbook paper. The layers on the last background as well as the blue piece are all scraps from my floor.

I should have those swap items up next week or so, the swap was for a 9 days of Easter swap. So, I'll get 9 packages back from the hostess and will open them up the 9 days before Easter, I'll do a post each day, so stay tuned.

January Snow ATCs

WOW! I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted on here.
Anyways, here are the ATCs I did for my collage group for January, the theme was snow:
Starting in the top left hand corner: All the paper on the backgrounds are from a winter set of cardstock I got for Christmas in 2009. In the top photo I used the snowman and the giant snowflake at the top. I used some new blue staples to fasten the snowman onto the card, and a white spiral paperclip from my supply swap. On the right hand photo I used all the snowflakes. The reason the picture is so blurry is because of the brad I added to the middle of the silver snowflake.
In the left hand photo on the bottom I used all the images.
In the right hand photo on the bottom I used the snowman and the snowflake images. The crown is a metal piece.

All the cards are backed with chipboard that I received in my supply swap.


I'm doing horribly on being creative lately. I joined the One Heart One World blog event with my other blog, and I decided to give away garage sale finds. Since this year we were to send our prize out within 3 days of the end of the event, I didn't sign up with this blog because I prefer to make my prize. And I didn't even think about the event until it started.