It's almost October!

Here are a couple of photos of ATCs I did for a swap on atcsforall.com

I couldn't let September go by without at least one new post. I'm not sure how I lost my mojo and stopped blogging, but I intend to remedy that.

I've been getting interested in fashion and deciding that I need to pay more attention to how I look and how I present myself. Clothes shopping to follow. I love reading some of the fashion blogs that are out there, though I doubt I'll be venturing into fashionista territory. Check out my favorite: Camille from childhoodflames.blogspot.com

For the past couple of weeks, I've been getting together with Aimee and Lori to do ATCs. It's been a blast and I know I'll be doing a blog post with lots of photos of ATCs from these get-togethers. We took a class at the arts council together and have been getting together for dinner every few months or so, but we decided we should get together and do art. We have two weeks to go.

I've just started making paper beads. I hadn't had much luck doing it in the past, but I found an old catalog at work that has colored catagory edges in all different colors. Perfect for making beads! And this time they are turning out great! I will post a picture when I get them made into a necklace. I found a cool idea involving recycling t-shirt material into jewelry.

Christmas tags.

These are tags for Christmas that I did for a swap. I really like how they turned out. I had to make 11 of each; 22 total. I should do a few extra before I bring them away, in case I want some for myself.

September Card swap

The theme for this month's card swap was "circles" and I have this wonderful set from Stampin' Up that I love. It's just so versatile! I believe the colors I used for this were; River Rock, Soft Sky, and Groovy Guava from 2007's "In Color" colors. Correct me if I'm wrong. I left the white area blank to fill in with whatever greeting I need later and the card opens vertically. If I get a better picture, I'll repost that.

Something other than Weight Watchers

I made these eight cards yesterday for a monthly swap that I often take part in. The theme was "animals". When these swaps roll around, I tend to not have enough paper to make all the cards the same; so I used the "color combination" tool from http://www.scraptitude.com/colorcombo/ and came up with lots of different combinations with the paper I did have. It's so much fun to try these different combinations. I think we all tend to gravitate toward the same ones over and over.
I really enjoy participating in these monthly swaps. I like the challenge of working with a theme you didn't pick. If you have a chance, participate in a swap or try the color tool above.