Maps, text, sewing book swap.

I'm a little slow but finally here are all the pages from this years ATC group book swap. The theme was maps, text and sewing. So the pages had to be 6"X6.5" in size and you had to do as many as signed up which was 11. I believe this is the 9th book swap we've done since our first in 2006.  It's always fascinating to see the variety that our group creates. I found this one a bit of a challenge to get all three items on a page but I guess that's why we do them.  I started off with an idea and was going to make all the pages along the same lines but then I got bored and kind of veered off on a few other tangents and finally my pages got finished. So here they are.

 Linda

 Lucie

 Marie

 Michelle

 Nancy

 Olive

 Sheila

 Veronica

 Virginia

Wendy

So in the end each person gets a page from each participant so you end up with a wonderful little inspirational book. Thanks ladies for all your creative work. The books look awesome.

Happy Creating.

Wendy

Great ATC meeting

Yesterday we had our monthly ATC meeting and it was long over due since we didn't have a meeting in December and we were snowed in last month. It was wonderful to see those that were able to make it. We did some techniques and played around with embossing folders and die cuts. It's fun to share different ideas for using equipment we already have.

Unfortunately I was so busy playing that I forgot to take photos of everyone's cards. So all I have is the one I traded and the one I received.

This is my own personal Tropical Island. I've been wanting to try out some map making so I thought this was the opportune time. It was a lot of fun using wet water colour paper and different kinds of inks and water colour paints splotched here and there. The hardest part was coming up with some fun names. Can you tell which ones the Tin Man suggested. I was kind enough to give him an Island of his own too. Oh if it looks too big for an ATC it's because it folds up like a map to ATC size.

And here is the beautiful ATC I received from Veronica.

Next time I'll try really hard to get a picture of everyone's ATC's for you!LOL.

Happy Trading.

Wendy