Wildflowers & Texture With String

There has been a mad dash this weekend to get several swaps finished and posted off- somehow over the three weeks of Easter holiday they got sidelined and never even started which isn't good.
We revisited the wildflower theme and I decided to use my love of crochet to make little flowers (which remind me of primroses) and leaves to glue on.

I even put some little yellow beads in the centre. The background is painted muslin and doilies. They are quite bulky and heavy cards though, hopefully that shouldn't matter too much.

The Texture with String swap posed an interesting problem- did I want to make a card with string on it, or just have cards with a print on. In the end I tried both and decided I liked the string one better. I have gone with a kind of Paisley Design and I am loving the gold paint!

Alphabets

Oh my giddy Aunt! I have just realised that I have neglected to show you my final Alphabet cards. I am very excited as there are just two more letters to be received and then the Alphabet will be finished. I cannot tell you how much of an achievement this feels!! Anyway, here are my last ones...

And here is the second to last set of two...

 (By Hazel)                                                    (By SueM)

Just to explain Sue's card as some of you may be wondering where the 'X' is. The pattern on the card is actually a 'Xyograph': a print taken from a wood block. This particular pattern comes from a vintage Indian wooden textiles printing block. 

The Issue With This Blog

Hi All, there will be a flurry of posts in the next few days/hours as we are once more reaching deadline time with the ATC swaps. I find that the problem with having a blog dedicated solely to ATCs is that I only seem to post on it every two months. Still, you can always look at past projects to keep you going until I post again.
Here's one I should have posted weeks ago but never got around to it-- Felted with Beads! We are having lots more fabric related ATC swaps nowadays because we have promoted one of our members of the MixedMediaATC_UK to fabric administrator, so she organises several fabric swaps in amongst our general swaps which is really nice.

Here are my Felted with Beads cards.

I did enjoy making these!!

RAB March Yellow

I was working on my yellow rainbow accordion book page over the weekend- continuing with the use of the yo-yos to carry my theme through all of the pages (sort of my signature style).

I also recieved my own in the post today from Sue- it has really interesting raised sections which could have been caused by string, although the flower shape at the bottom I have no idea as to what it is made from. I particularly like the text in it, makes the paper more interesting to look at.

The Last Snowflake

Phew! What a busy few weeks! I apologise for not updating you on all things small and postable sooner, but as there has been a sudden boom in production then I am sure to make up for it- more on that in another post.
The snowflakes have now all been received and swapped out. I have been a bit of a numpty and got so excited about swapping them all out that I forgot to photograph my own! So I may need to make some more to show you what they looked like. Anyway, here is the last of the entries for your perusal.

These little gems were created by Sue Horsley- aren't they lovely?

There were some issues in swapping out this swap, mainly because there were only 6 people in it (including myself) which wasn't enough to just give everyone one from everybody else, so some people had to have two from some people and it all got very complicated- I think I got it just about right in the end though. I ended up with two from Mary and two from Sue, one from Hazel and one from Wendy. It was a proper brain teaser though!!!

Snowflake Inchies

I have two more sets of Snowflake Inchies to show you. Both different approaches, although again I have no idea what kinds of techniques were used (both very clever ones I'm sure)

 This one is by Mary, and I can't decide which side I like the best!! I think that the left hand image is the front and the right is the back but they are both really nice- if I keep one maybe I should have it dangling on a string so that it will rotate and I can see both sides.

And this one is by Wendy, who always does the most amazing little pieces of art. I especially like the white background ones because it looks a little like angelina fibres and sparkles in the sunlight.

Alphabet U & V

It's that time of month again! The return of the alphabet ATCs!! We are nearly to the end though, two more months to go and I will have a complete set! I will have to reorder my ATC folders so that they are all properly together.

This month's are from Wendy and Annie.

(By Annie)                                                      (By Wendy) 

I really love the texture in the underwater one- it reminds me a bit of the Tangled in a Fish Net card by Marina that I got a few months ago, maybe that was where the inspiration came from.