Spring - TMTA

Here are my Spring ATCs for this week's challenge at TMTA.

When I think of Spring I always think of yellow and green... I wanted to make a few more ATCs, because Spring is such a wonderful vast theme and besides it is my favourite season, but there wasn't enough time. :-(

The bunny ATC wouldn't be possible without the generosity of Fátima, a lady who also takes drawing classes with me and who gave lots of beautiful little sheets taken from little notebooks that she used to collect. In the 80s and early 90s every girl I knew collected them (I did too.)

Don't tell anyone... - another text moo

I had so much fun making the text moo for this week's challenge at MMT that I decided to make another one. Thanks to Célia Nunes for the university background and for the sweet whispering kitten which made this moo happen.

Dancing shoes ATC

I sent this ATC to Joanne Wardle.

I stamped the background with the border of a flower stamp and used tule and glitter glue for a shining effect.

I realise now that I probably made a mistake when I wrote "dancing shoes". I meant to say "dance shoes", but I guess it's kind of funny to imagine magical shoes that dance on their own instead of normal shoes you wear when you dance.

Book thong for a swap

Bible thong.

I sent one similar to this to Joanne Wardle who always organises great inchie swaps. Unfortunately, when I made hers I still hadn't bought the round beads which I then placed above the angels. My mom is not much of a reader, but when she saw me making this she asked me to make her a similar one...

Bookmarks for a swap - part 2

I crocheted these with Ancora (Coats and Clark) thread yarn no.12. The pattern is the same in both bookmarks, but the rosy-white thread makes it look a bit confusing. To make up for that, I added some beads to the fringe.

Bookmarks for a swap - part 1

I've been making bookmarks for a swap at http://www.bot-swap.com/. I can't wait to know who my swap partners are so that I can personalise the remaining bookmarks. What you can see here is the front and the back of the same bookmark. The beautiful angels stamp is by "Marks of distinction."

Comments are welcome!

Text - make a moo

This week's challenge at Make a moo or two is text. I made this moo with some leftovers of the bird inchies. Thanks for looking!

Bird inchies

I made some of these for Joanne's inchie swap whose theme was birds. As usual, it was great fun making the inchies. Nevertheless, it was hard to decide which ones to send...When I put them together they looked so good that I immediately thought of framing them, which meant that I had to do some extra similar inchies for the swap.

Fashion inchies - Theme Thursday

I wanted to make an ATC on fashion for Think Monday Think ATC a few weeks ago, but I was too busy at the time, so instead I made two fashion inchies for Theme Thursday whose challenge was moos or inchies.

Words - God - inching artists

Last week at inching artists the challenge was to make an inchie including a word or words that were inspirational. I immediately thought of God, but I didn't know where to find a picture that somehow symbolised God. Then I remembered I had a lovely blue paper with tiny stars that had been given to me by a very nice lady called Célia Nunes who attends painting classes with me. I tried to make the inchie in a way that it looks like God is smiling and winking. One of the eyes is closed and the other eye is a heart. I didn't have a red heart eyelet, so I tried to paint the eyelet with a red marker. The result was a bit messy, but then again if you see it as God's heart bleeding out His love for humankind, it makes sense.

I'm so sorry I'm posting this inchie so late, especially because I had made it last weekend, but time just slipped out of my hand like sand these past few days and there were things more important than my crafts that couldn't be postponed...

Spring inchies

I sent some of these spring inchies off to Joanne's spring swap a long while ago, but I ended up forgetting to post a "family picture".

Green and silver - Inching Artists

I wanted very much to take part in this week's challenge at inching artists because the theme (green and silver) sounded like an easy one and inchies are always lots of fun to do. However, due to lack of time, I ended up putting two challenges together, as this inchie will also be part of the set of bird inchies I'm making for this month's inchie swap organised by Joanne.

Insects - TMTA

When I saw that the challenge for this week at TMTA was insects I thought "Bah! I'll definitely skip this one." Then I remembered that butterflies and dragonflies are insects too... :-)

I think "Moth(er) nature waking up" might be a suitable title for the vintage-looking ATC (the one with the watch).

Love is still in the air...

I wanted to make these for the first Make a moo challenge, which was about romance, but I never got the time. Then I thought I might finish them for the Valentine challenge at Wednesday stamper, but then again my professional life got in the way (sigh)... so I didn't finish them on time for the Valentine challenge either. :-(

Love is in the (h)air... ;-) - Wednesday Stamper

This week's theme on Wednesday stamper is Valentine. Well, I got the stamp of the lady last week and when I tried it on scrap paper to check its accuracy, I realized I might use it in an inchie (although the stamp is bigger, as you can see in the moo I posted previously).

My very first moo - Romance

Nellie Sterksel from the Netherlands has just created a fantastic challenge site: Make a moo or two. The theme for this first challenge was romance.
I wish I had had more time... I wanted to make at least one more... Well, maybe next time...

Happy St Valentine's Day!

Cats - Think Monday, think ATC

My entries to this week's theme on Think Monday, think ATC: CATS.

Hello! - inching artists

The last time I checked inching artists, the theme was "Hello!"It wasn't an easy theme, so it took me a while to figure out what to do till I came up with these two inchies. (You should start by reading the lines of the doll, so that the lines of the parrot make sense.)

In the beginning of his career as a primary school teacher, my father bought lots of stamps to use with his pupils. The ones you can see in the "Hello!" inchies are part of two different sets. The beautiful doll belongs to the "objects" set and the naughty parrot is part of a set named "bonecos" (something like "puppets") -that's my favourite set. Anyway, they're all great stamps considering their age. They're about 30 years old and are still in very good shape. All right, I admit they've spent most of their lives closed in the boxes they originally came in. But if in the past they didn't have much use, that's about to change... ;-)

My 2nd ATC

I've only made a few ATCs so far, but this is my favourite.