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I really enjoy making the monochromatic pages! Two more are done (one sans chunk):

 

I´ve been painting all weekend, I´ve seen a total of three TV programs (usually I´m such a TV geek), the rest of the time I´ve had a brush or a pencil in my hand, pretty much. I´ve finished all of the PAT pages (without the chunk), and I´ve done pages for some private trades. First the PAT ones:


oriental page for jonquil


orange page for adriayna


unicorn for maria magenta


fantasy for dolores4fun


goddess (Scandinavian Idun) for dolores4fun

Something Swedish for ElectaBlue (a Midsummer Celebration):


I´ve added the ball trim on my found poetry. Btw, I withdraw from that swap, so the pages are available for trade!


And two monochromatic pages for a trade with meganspaperstudio:
 

This is my Rapunzel page with the braid:



And these are my first pages for the Found Poetry swap. Making these pages was difficult, a lot more than I had expected. I don´t do much collage work, and this is all about collage - really hard!

I´ve painted three more pages for my chunky pages PAT, chunkified two of them, and added to my orange page:

 
monochromatic green (Emerald City)

 
fairytales (Rapunzel - of course I added a long braid!)

 
oriental/geishas (I really liked how the ribbons look, it feels rather Japanese, I think!)
 
 
I added the words, it´s a quote by Carl Sagan.

I´ve done 6 pages out of 11 (with some chunkification to do). I´m also doing quite a few chunky book swaps - the Pretty Girls Mixed Media (sent in), Wizard of Oz (halfway through chunking), Wonderful Trees (I´m not entirely happy with my trees, and I´m not sure they are good enough to send in), Found Poetry, a monochrome trade with meganspaperstudio, and then I´m also doing some 1/1 trades. You can safely say, that I´m up to my ears in chunkies! I can´t wait for my first pages to arrive - I really want to start assembling my books!

Yesterday the last set for Alice in the Dark arrived, and I mailed them off today. These are the cards from MikasCupcake:

 

These are my own returns:



This is an orange chunky page that I made for adriayna, for the PAT. I think it´s too simple, though, I htink I need to work on it a bit more. And I need to add some chunk, of course!

I made my first two chunky pages for my Chunky Page PAT, one monochromatic for curbsidetreasure, and one with red & turquoise art supplies for OriginalYouth:

 

They both need to be chunkified, but I´m waiting for an order from Panduro, with a bunch of fiber, ribbons, beads and other chunky goodies - all bought dirt cheap on sale!

I´ve been wanting to do a Chunky pages PAT, but no one hosted one. So I did. Join me on AFA!

I´ve been asking some of my favourite artists for contributions to my Marie Antoinette and Alice in Wonderland books, this is two pages I´ve done for trades, one circus themed, and one great outdoors:

   

I´ve recieved four sets of cards for my Alice in the Dark swap, only one set left, and they will be in the mail - I´ve swapped and packaged most of the cards.

 meganspaperstudio LilMissFirefly plain janeadoonaisoul

I haven´been sure that my Wizard of Oz chunkies have been sturdy enough, and last night I glued on another layer of cardstock, and this morning I painted new backsides - a lot better! It was absolutley worth the extra work!

I can´t seem to stop making Marie Antoinette´s! Just like I was making a lot of Alice in Wonderland before - yes, I do have a habit of getting obsessed... This chunky is available for trade, I´d love a Marie Antoinette in return, or perhaps an Alice!

I finally got my returns from the Life is Sugar Sweet swap, and I love them - well worth the wait!



I also recieved Alice in the Dark cards from corduroy cat:

These are collages, not chunkies or ATC´s, but they are so gorgeaus, I had to share! The talented Moline made them!

    

 

These are just a few, she´s made atc´s as well, using this idea. It´s really inspiring, and some ideas are popping into my head...

I got a pile of atc´s yesterday (yay!), I hope I get a big one today as well!

I got ryfraf´s contribution to my Alice in the Dark swap:

 

My returns from the 50s Housewife swap:



And I made a hostess card for the Wizard of Oz Chunky Pages swap:

I´m trolling the net for Chunky books, and this is some of the stuff I´ve found:

hobbyloco.com lists the chunky books she´s participated in, both her page, and entire books. Some nice books in here!

crisparts beautiful "Dia de los Muertos" Chunky book.

potbellyarts beautiful Chunkies, 18th Century France (and assembled) and zetti (and assembled). These two books, esp the 18th Century one, is actually the reason I finally caved in to Chunkies!

Art Trader Magazine, all kinds of mail art, including Chunky books and ATCs.

kosmopooch gorgeaus chunky pages.

art-e-zine, an online zine for artsy stuff, with for example skinny chunkies.

batraplume´s recieved some lovely Chunkies!

I love the art of altermyworld, and her Chunky pages is as great as everything else!

cookala´s amazing Marie Antoinette Chunkies can be seen here, here, here and here. Don´t forget to look at all of her Chunky pages!

Latarnia´s Black Chunky book.

Got Bling Swap at artwithaheart55.

Black & White chunky pages at The Faerie Factory

Carpe rutila at KO...OK? Also loves the forensic one!

Moline´s got some gorgeaus chunkies!

The Sweet Marie Itty Bitty Book - tiny chunky!

This is just the tip of the iceberg (even though I don´t find as much as I do when I look for ATCs), there are lots of gorgeaus "I-want" Chunkies out there, just google, or search flickr or atcsforall!

Wonderful gothic Alice cards have arrived from hokeycokey!

I´ve made three more chunky pages, one is for a possible trade, and the two Marie´s are available (I want MA chunkies in return). The one with Oden and the ravens isn´t quite finished yet, it needs some chunk, but I think the Marie´s are done, maybe I´ll add something little. (I´m amazed that I managed to paint something that even looks like a man! Usually I so suck at that!)

  

One of my favourite art blogs (pretty much the only one I read, actually...), is Swedish iHanna. She´s tried pretty much everything when it comes to arts, crafts and journalling, so I searched her blog for Chunky books as well. And of course she´s been there as well!

If you want to see what she´s done, looky here:

Tutorial for her page in the Vintage Valentine book.