Postage stamp people

I finished these cards off earlier today for the "Postage stamp people" swap on atcards.com.



I hand drew the Geisha in black pen. Then I added a blue watercolour background and coloured them in with coloured pencils. I stuck on the stamps and added some Geisha hair details to them in black ink. I decided I wanted a little more texture on the backgrounds so I used mod podge and torn up bits of white tissue paper to cover some of the background and overlapping the drawing and stamp in some places. Then I used a sponge and brown stamping ink to add the brown ink to the tissue paper (once the mod podge was dry of course!).

Lots of ATCs

I've made lots of ATCs over the last few days. A lot of them are for swaps so I can't show them yet. However I'm making a love themed set for Valentine's day that I'm going to make into a little book (I think) for my other half:







I think I may have a little addiction to these mini pieces of art. I think it's because they're so small you can make them relatively quickly (although some can take several days if I can't decide what to do!) and I love trading them with artists from all over the world.

Finished objects... SWAP PARTNERS DO NOT READ!

Sorry for the shouting in the title! I just don't want any swap partners to see something they don't want to- of course I could hold off on showing pictures but I'm too impatient and I want to share what I've been up to lately and the reason I haven't been posting very regularly.

These embroidered bags took a long time to make and whilst I was happy with the embroidery, I wasn't so pleased with them when I made them into bags, my sewing was a little wonky in more than one place. Oh well, here they are....

Teletubbies (image from colouring pages)


Fall leaf (design from needlecrafter.com)


Flapper (design from needlecrafter.com)


Cat (design from needlecrafter.com)


Birds (design from needlecrafter.com)


Cherry blossom (own design)


They're all lined and are reversible.

I also sent a pearl dangles ring, some poppy cards and a folding scrapbook (they all had extras thrown in as they took a lot less time than the bags!).

And it was UK Round robin journal day so I sent the next one off, here's the pages I did:






I love crafting and swapping but I don't think I'll be taking on any more large swaps before Christmas now. Well except for ATCs and journals!