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I felt very Marie Antoinette-esque this weekend, and this last week, and I really want a MA chunky book (as well as an Alice in Wonderland), it´s on top of my wish list. So I figured I´d make a chunky page to trade with. But it ended up so good, I´m so happy with it, so I can´t part from it. I think I will chunk it as simple as the page is, maybe just a gold lace or something.

I didn´t just make chunky pages this weekend, I made some atc´s as well, two for a trade, one as a hostess gift (for the Pretty Girls chunky pages swap), and one to finish off the Gothic Wizard of Oz swap:

  

Those little evil munchkins totally freaked me out before I painted their eyes and mouths, what do you think - creepy, right?

I painted Wizard of Oz pages all day yesterday, and the last ones this morning - so much fun! I still need to add danglies and chunk, but I need that darn hole puncher for that (I hope I get it this week!).

        

And all of them together:



I´m not sure how I´ll chunk them up, if I´ll just add ribbons and yarns and such, maybe some beads as well. I don´t know what else to add, to go with the Oz theme.

ETA: I made a back for my chunky Oz book too:

I finished my last couple of pages for the Pretty Girls Mixed Media Chunky Pages this morning, including a page that eventually will become the front page of the chunky book to be. I have ordered a hole puncher, and hope it will arrive soon - I can´t wait to get my chunk on!

  

As usual, I´ve made one for myself to keep, it might not come as a surprise, when I say it´s the Alice´ one...

I have a bit of a problem, though - I´m running out of card stock! My ATC cardstock is not sturdy enough, and I don´t have many more notebooks to slaughter. And it´s more than a week until I get my pay! Oh no! I guess I´ll have to make some atc´s instead...

ETA: I took a photo of all the girls together - they would look really nice, if I made a book out of them! But I´m sure the book that I will eventually make, with all of the pages from the swap, will look even better!



Also - I made the Wixard of Oz cards from my atc card stock, I think they might work, I hope they aren´t too flimsy. And I hope my pretty girls aren´t too heavy...

ETA: I made a back for my Pretty Girls chunky book also:

Yesterday I got the contribution from BekahStargazing for my newst swap, Alice in the Dark.

I´ve been working on my chunky pages for the Pretty Girl Mixed Media, and four more are finished (except embellishment - though I´ve been going through my stuff, and found lots of things to use!):

    


I thought I had saved some bat confetti from a Halloween a couple of years ago, so I went through my flat in search for it, but couldn´t find any. I found some bat stickers, though, but I´m not entirely happy with those. The bat confetti would have been so perfect...

I´ve finished my 4/4 with MikasCupcake (first I had remembered it as a 5/5, but I´m quite happy I remembered it wrong!), and I´ve recieved my returns from the Dark Gatering II.

I´ve been oogling the chunky book pages I´ve seen on AFA and flickr, but haven´t had the nerve to try them out for myself. Until now! Yesterday I joined two chunky books pages swaps, one Pretty girls (à la Suzi Blu), and one Wizard of Oz. And last night I began working on the Pretty girls pages, and now I´ve finished three. Well, almost finished - one of the things with chunky books, is the dangly parts, and I yet have to add them. But they are painted, both back and front.

  

I´m actually liking what I´ve made so far! But I don´t know if they´re mixed media and layered enough, though...

Oh, and if anyone wonder what the heck chunky books are, you can check out these links:

Chunky Book Arts on flickr.

Or this chunky books search on flickr.

This should answer all of your questions about what, how, and what to make.

I just finished my ten cards for my trade with Megan, yay! I usually get so caught up with the joy of recieving that many beautiful cards (she´s a great artist!), that I conviniently forget that I have to make that many cards as well. And without a theme to fall back upon... But I finally finished the last card today, hope she´ll like them! There are several dark cards, a couple of cupcakes, and some odd ends, which pretty well represent what I pain - goth and cupcakes are on the top of my list.

I had been lurking on this swap for quite a while, but felt to intimidated to join - some of the artists I would have to do were rather challengeing! But finally I caved in, and I had lots of fun making the cards. I didn´t make any copys of actual art, I did it more in the style of the artists:



From the top, the artists are: David Roberts, Mark Ryden, Frederic Leighton and Miró.

It´s quite odd, I´ve done four cards these last few days, with no theme or anything, and usually, I have such a hard time coming up with ideas out of the blue. Ok, I admit, the cards of my cat sort of made themself, but yesterday I made a card with no reference to anything else, and rather different from my usual cards as well. And it´s available for trade!

When I printed out the photo for my card for Merlinprincesse, I also printed out a couple of more photos, and I´ve made cards out of them too, all available for trade:

  

I´m waiting for the cards from my Moomin Valley swap to reach their recepients, they should arrive in the beginning of next week. And then I´m hosting another Alice in Wonderland swap, Alice in the dark. Yay! Gothic Alice is my favourite theme to collect and to make, and this will be my first gothic Alice swap, so I really look forward to it. The idea came from me making cards after reading Dita von Teese´s book. Can you see that she was my inspiration?



I´ve also made cards for a trade with the lovely Merlinprinsesse, I went with cats:

I got the last two sets of Moomin cards for my Moomin Valley swap this week, from tafkabecky and Dooda:

 

Now all of the cards are swapped out and packaged, and I´m sending them next week, when I get payed. I swapped these out to myself:

I recieved my returns from the Mixed Media Marie Antoinette swap, and they were fabulous!

Lovely Moomin cards for my Moomin Valley swap came yesterday from Texace1. Looks like a really small and intimate swap - we are only six players, including me. But I don´t mind at all - bigger isn´t necessarily better!

Any swap that allows me to make cupcakes is fine by me! So I joined the Life is Sugar Sweet swap, and came up with cupcakes as a fashion statement. And I realized - I want a cupcake bag!



I always makes an extra card for me to keep when I do swaps, these are from the last 15 swaps I´ve been in:



Lots of dark cards, and cupcakes!

I had so much fun doing the Dark Gathering, so I had to do the Dark Gathering no 2! I hadn´t enticipated the difficulty I had coming up with ideas, though. Finally, it came to me - vampires!

Of course I had to join a 50s housewife ATC swap!



The first set of cards for my Moomin Valley swap has arrived, they are from Lady Watersnake and they are absolutely lovely!