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I wanted mor of her cards, so we did another trade, this is what I made for her:

I have a hard time finding zetti stuff in Sweden, and I haven´t had the money to order some either. Fortunately, some of the trades I have done, have included some wonderful extras, even some zetti images (yay!). But I have hesitated using them - then they would be gone, never again to be found. So I glued them all onto a blank piece of paper, and today I went to the library and made copies, both natural size and half size. Perfect! And I still have the originals, so I can make new copies when the other ones are all used up! Clever, huh?!

I have been wanting to join the Queen of Hearts swap at atcsforall.com for a while, but I didn´t know what to make. Then I came up with this idea (thanks to the Alice card I made for Chronata), and I really like the outcome. So yesterday I joined the swap, and today I sent the cards. Unfortunately I have to wait over two months until the returns arrive...

I´ve recieved two more swaps, the triptych swap and the Marimekko swap:

  

And this morning I made cards for a trade with Chronata:

 

And yesterday I finished the cards for the All things Egyptian swap:



Looks like my cards for the Wizard of Oz with a twist swap has gone missing, so I won´t get any returns - too bad, I think! And it´s too late to make new cards and send in. I guess I´ll just have to find happiness somewhere else - like in my own swap! I´m hosting an Alternative Alice swap at atcsforall.com, should be fun!

I love organizing and putting things in neat and tidy stacks/piles/binders/folders etc - I hate it when things look messy and/or is hard to find (which doesn´t mean that I have a problem with dust bunnies and such - I hate vacuuming more than I hate those). So when I ran out of space in my gallery at atcsforall.com, then I had to re-organize. All of my swap cards were spread out one and one, now I put them together - one swap, one picture - and voilà! I have room for lots more pics! A downside, though - all of the comments were deleted together with the photos, which is too bad - comments are definitely part of the fun! And even though you don´t get as close views of the cards, they are still in my flickr, in all of their former glory.

Another thing I have been doing: I have seen that some people make one extra card in swaps, and keep it for themselves, and I thought it was such a good idea - sometimes I am really happy with my swap cards, and then I have to send them away. So I have been making cards for myself this last week, I have almost made cards for all of the swaps I´ve done so far. I think I counted 14! (I´ve only been active on atcsforall.com for 3 months!) Now, I+m going to host a swap of my own, Alternative Alice - I can´t wait!

I have never done collaging before, but when I joined the Let them have wings III and Hats and Crowns swaps at atcsforall.com, I couldn´t resist, and last week, I sat home, collaging. It was so much fun, I really need to do some more of it!

 
Can you see which swap is which?

And there was an extra card, which is now for trade:


It was the first one I made, and it didn´s really fit in with the others.

They both are traded (ok, Snow White is only reserved so far, but hopefully traded):

 

See the little dwarf in the Snow White card? It mysteriously appeared in my flat the other morning, I found my cat chewing on it, and I have never seen it before. I don´t have kids, so I have no idea how it turned up. I just knew it had to become an ATC!

 

When I did the cards for the Narnia swap, I had an idea about making a book card, but that never happened. But the idea stayed in my head, and now it´s finished, and already traded away. The words are poetry I wrote in my teens, and the pics are zetti, inspired by the content of the poems.

 
 
 

I´ve recieved my owls from Hoot Hoot an Owl swap, the first swap I recieve. It was just like Christmas, opening that envelope - so much fun!



Aren´t they lovely?!

I made two cards for trades, and the last card for the Under the Big Top swap:

 
One for monarch, who collect clowns, and one for Lise Bu, who collects the Wizard of Oz.

I made cards for two swaps and a trade:

  
The Wizard of Oz with a twist, the swapUnder the Big Top swap, and a trade with lildebi.

I made a Scarecrow for a trade:

 I´ve made two cards for Under the Big Top swap at atcsforall.com. Strange swap for me to do, really, since I really don´t like (animal) circuses....

 

I´ve painted four cards for a swap on Hieroglyphs, Runes and Ancient Writing:

 

And two more cards for the Wizard of Oz swap:

 
Glinda, and the Wicked Witch.

I am thinking about self-publish a book of my ATCs, mostly for me (so I get to keep the cards I´ve traded), but also if anybody would like to buy. Lulu.com is a good place to go - everything is free, until you actually buy the book.

I searched their store for ATC books and found: A little book of ATCs, which I´m really considering buying.

I joined two more swaps at atcsforall.com - I have a long list of swaps I´m waiting to recieve cards from this summer, so much fun! This two were Design-A-Pony and Wizard of Oz, with a twist. The first one, you get to make a card, based on a finished pony shape. The other one, is to make Oz-cards, but with your own style - no copies from the books or films. So, my finished ponies, and my first Oz, Dorothy and Toto:

 

I made the last two Alice cards this morning:

 

Of course there had to be a Cheshire Cat!