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Yesterday I got nowzem´s contribution to my Alice swap - only another week left, until I´m sending out the returns!

After waiting for over 3 weeks, Vicki´s cards for my Alternative Alice swap finally arrived:

I finished my Victorian villains cards this morning, I had a har time coming up with the last two, and I´m not as happy with them as I am with the first two, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. But I won´t host this swap for a few months, so I still have time to re-make them.



ETA: One of the cards have been re-made - I did Mrs. Lovett instead of Dorian Gray. What can I say - I saw Sweeney Todd and got inspired...

I made a card for a 1/1 trade, I hope she´ll like it:



I´m really having fun, making these gothic Alice cards! I also made two Victorian villains; Jack the Ripper and a Dracula card. Gothic cards are so much fun! I love the darker colour scheme, and since I´m in a Victorian mood at the moment, it fits right in!

I´ve been painting cards for the Magickal swap all morning:



I´ve also recieved Donna´s cards for my Alternative Alice swap:



And I´ve come up with an idea for yet another swap, Victorian Villains (such as Jack the Ripper, Dracula, Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...). Could be lots of fun!

Yesterday i got Chronata´s cards for my Alternative Alice swap. I´m still waiting for cards from six participants, and then I can swap them out!

I´ve finished the cards for Renmeleon and for the Gothic Alice in WOnderland swap:

 

I´ve done several cards last night and this morning, but I don´t have any pics to show yet. I´m making cards for my 9/9 trade with Renmeleon (she´ll be getting Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Narnia, manga, and some other stuff), for the Magick swap and for the Gothic Alice in Wonderland swap (I´m really loving the last one - I´ve ventured into gothic Alices with my own Alternative Alice swap, but now they are getting even darker!). Fun, fun!

I made this gothic Queen of Hearts for my trade with coffeelatte:



I´m also doing a 9 for 9 trade with Renmeleon, and I´ve only got 2 cards finished... I´ve got my work cut out for me! Not to mention the Magick swap I´ve signed up for. Fortunately, they due date is in November for that.

I finally finished my cards for the Tim Burton swap. They are actually B/W, not sepia, but I took the pic last night, so the colours are a bit off.

I´ve got my returns from the Kawaii swap:



I´ve made another card for queendebbee, because I really liked her new owl cards:



And the first cards have arrived for the Alternative Alice swap. The best thing about hosting, I think, Is that I actually get to see all of the cards (they look so much better IRL, even though they are lovely in photos as well!). And do you notice how there are four cards from each participant? One is for me, as a thank you! yay!

 

I´m trading queendebbee for another penguin ATC, and in return she wants an Alice card. I went ahead and made one, if she likes it, it´s hers, otherwise it´s for trade.

I´ve been given my first ever award, from Karin of Nordic Craft, thank you! I´m so happy you like my blog! (if you take a look at my cathegories, you´ll see that there are more than atc´s - lots of crafting, among other things!)



Here are the rules for this award:
1. Put the logo on your blog;
2.Add a link to the person who awarded you;
3. Nominate at least seven other blogs;
4. Add links to those blogs on your blog; and
5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

So I award these blogs:

1. BrocanteHome - a fabulous blog, dedicated to vintage housekeeping and how to put a rose lining on your life!

2.  Mandy´s Magical World of Art - Mandy makes the most beautiful zetti ATC´s I´ve ever seen - truly inspirational!

3. Posie gets cozy - one of my favourite interior and craft blogs. Everything she touches turns magical!

4. Yvestown - a girl with good taste! And a great blog - I can´t wait to see how the new house in Belgium will turn out!

5. underebaraclara - the girl who got me interested in fashion again! A lovely blog, with pretty pictures and lots of good things to say!

6. Pink Friday - since I love decorating with colours, I´m in love with Lisa´s blog! Also, check her art out - beautiful!

7. Vintage Darling - lives the most gorgeaus vintage lifestyle, and shares it all with us!

I´ve got the returns from the Fans of Narnia swap and the Wizard of Oz with a Twist swap (my cards showed up, and three lovely ladies agreed to share their cards with me!) - wonderful cards!

 

And then I did som morning painting. I painted the cards for the Baba Yaga swap, and the cards for the next swap I´m hosting, the Wonderland Tarot swap:

 

I´ve finally come up with an idea for my next ATC swap - it´s going to be a Wonderland Tarot Swap! I love Alice in Wonderland, I love tarot cards - how can it go wrong?

ETA: I just googled Wonderland and tarot, and apparantly, I´m not the first to come up with the idea, there are a Rider-Waite Wonderland tarot deck, pics of the cards here! There is also a  deck in wood (wonderful illustrations!). (more wonderful wooden decks here!) A manga Alice tarot deck (but I didn´t get much AiW feel from it...)

I´ve finished the cards for two swaps, Favourite graphic novel/comic book swap and Take a ride on the Carousel of Dreams...

I originally made this for the Favourite graphic novel/comic book swap, but I wasn´t completely happy with it, so I made another one for the swap, and will trade this instead:



And a really good thing: my cards for the Wizard of Oz with a twist swap finally showed up, and I will be getting my returns, with thanks to the kindness of my fellow cardmakers at atcsforall.com. And I came up with an idea for an Oz card to keep. So all´s well that ends well!

I got my returns from the Alice in Wonderland swap today, and they are really nice - colourful and whimsey, just like a Wonderland should be.

I´ve got some more returns, from the Join the Movement swap and the Hieroglyphs, Runes and Ancient writing swap:

 

I made the cards for the Alternative Alice swap I´m hosting:



And I have finally caught up with making the extra card for me from all of the swaps I have done (I saw some people doing that, and thought it was a great idea, so I stole it...):

(pay no attention to my feet...)
From top left corner:

- Triptych swap
- Marimekko swap
- Hieroglyphs, Runes and Ancient writing swap
- Kawaii swap
- Design-a-pony swap
- Queen of Hearts swap
- Join the Movement swap
- Pointy hats and crowns swap
- Under the Big Top swap
- Fans of Narnia swap
- Hoot hoot, an owl swap
- Alternative Alice swap
- Alice in Wonderland swap
- All things Egyptian swap
- Let them have wings III

and then there were the Oz with a twist, that ended up lost in the mail... Well, I didn´t manage to come up with an idea for my own card, so maybe that´s a blessing in disguise...