ATC Swap 2008 - My January through May ATC's

I belong to a 9 person ATC swap group. These are my ATC's for:
January 2008 - Lizards
February 2008 - Klimt
March 2008 - Flight
April 2008 - Chinese Proverbs
May 2008 - Metallic (the lettered background is an embossed metal sheet, the blue papers are painted with mica paint and there is a metal "something or other" she is holding. LOL)

Me & My World Chunky Book Swap

This chunky book swap was hosted by Jessie Scherf in NSW Australia. The format was different from most chunky book swaps I have done. The pages are 5.5 x 11 and rather than do the back & front of one page, we have two pages face to face, the left page to be some journaling about your life, where you live, etc. and the right hand page is your art work.

I painted all of the art work pages and oddly.....the first 4 ended up in colors I rarely use, such as orange. I had 2 friends over for an art day & they really Liked the colors, so I decided to step Outside of "me & my world" & try to work with the new bolder color. Greens are usually my choice, but in looking for images I found the peacock which pulled my comfortable greens back in, some blue which I used on alcohol ink stained tyvek which was another requirement on the page (tyvek) and had enough orange to make it fit. I don't know if I'm thrilled with the pages............but I Am happy to have pulled in some out of the usual color for me. :-)

I am in a "Tall and Skinny" swap in CC Groups using children and animals in situations that would not be found naturally. I had Much FUN with this swap. Here is the front and back of my page. The dog on the back is my little girl, Lexi. And the kitty is my cat, Frankie. My "kids". :-)

Asilomar Art & Soul - April 2008

Last week was Art & Soul at Asilomar in Monterey CA. The weather was clear & sunny, sometimes very Windy but just Beautiful. And I got to take 3 full days of class with Misty Mawn. :-) And the class was Absolutely Wonderful! I shared a table with Bev, Char & Karen, whom I knew. And I also met several new people in class as well as joined a new yahoo group to do a Misty Mawn round robin journal. As Scary as that thought is, I have Hopes of getting better with my faces. :-)

These are 2 pages I did in class and one that is still in progress.

March 2008 Tip In - Travel

This is the front & back page of my Travel Tip in for CC Swaps for March 2008. Which will be going in the mail on Monday, 3/31............the Deadline. :-)

Paint Scraped background - Background Noise #3

This is a background I made using a credit card to scrap Prussian Blue and Yellow Ochre Color Box Chalk reinkers along with Blue Teal Color Box Mica Magic reinkers. I am using them for a Fish ATC chunky book swap due next week.

Birds & Eggs Tip In - February 2008

This is the front and back of my Bird & Eggs Tip in Page for CC Swaps, February 2008