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As you can see these ATCs are pretty diverse: transfers, collages, and stamped ATCs.

More ATCs for Stuttgart

I´ve told you before that I´ve been busy making some ATCs for personal trades at the stamping convention in Stuttgart on April 5 and 6. Here are some more ...

Nick Bantock Rubber Stamps

My sister has more Nick Bantock stamps than I have, so I love to stamp ATCs with them when I´m visiting her.

Dying Eggs and Papers

Did you dye your Easter eggs this year? We have and once again we have used the remaining paint to dye some papers ...

Busy Easter Days

These are some of the ATCs I´ve made for personal trades at the "Stempelmesse Süd" in Stuttgart I´ll be visiting soon. I´ve been on a roll today filling up my album for trades. Please click on the image to enlarge it and see the details.

My sister´s alphabet stamps

As every year, I´m visiting my sister for an Easter holiday right now. Yesterday I fell in love with a rubber stamp alphabet she has bought recently and made these three ATCs. These letters are sooo beautiful!
(BTW, the ATC in the middle is another German lesson for you: the German word "Aufschwung" means "backswing" as well as "boom" ...)

Hands

Three ATCs for a Hand themed swap: The Conductor, Let him fly, and Ein Spatz in der Hand = A Bird (the German saying is: a sparrow) in the hand.

Spring Moos

These are my Spring Moos for this week´s Make a Moo or Two challenge.

Skinny Book - B is for Broken-hearted

Remember my Skinny Alphabet Book themed "In the Mood"?

The challenge for our Letter B page was to use vintage lace or trim.

Ravens

Two Raven themed ATCs for Xela. And here´s my third German lesson: the right one says "Rabenschwarz" which means "black as a crow".

ATCs Books

Two Books themed ATCs for Xela. The quote on the left one says "Reading means dreaming with open eyes".

Numbers ATCs

Two Numbers ATCs for Manja.

(And a second lesson of my little German course: In German "The bill, please" means "Zahlen, bitte", so Zahlen means "to pay" as well as "numbers".)

Postage People on their way to you

There are 27 envelopes full of lovely Postage People in this golden bag. Instead of getting away with them I swapped them today with the kind help of my sisters. So tomorrow they will all be on their way to you - hope you´ll be satisfied with your return cards!
Thank you all for joining, please let me know when your returns arrive.

In my Garden

When I did the research for the Chinese Proverbs journal, I stumbled upon this Chinese proverb about books. If I had a garden the most important things there would be a chair, a book, and a cup of coffee. There could be butterflies, birds, snakes, and flowers around me but I wouldn´t notice them. I´m happy that I have a balcony at least ...

This arch is for today´s Wednesday Stamper´s theme "In my Garden".

Postage People Finish

This swap now comes to an end - Lubna´s and Beckie´s ATCs have arrived yesterday, and you can have a look at Claudia´s beautiful cards here.

Thanks to you all for sending your cards in time! I´ll be able to swap this weekend and hope you´ll be satisfied with your returns.

Journal "Chinese Proverbs"

If you know my soft spot for crows maybe you don´t believe that this hasn´t been the first Chinese proverb that came to my mind when I got Beckie´s RR journal ...

But it´s right: I´ve had about six different ideas because there are SO MANY great Chinese proverbs! O. k., I admit that it´s no wonder that I´ve chosen this one in the end :-))

(The whole spread is too wide so you see the left page above and the right page below of course.)

Postage People - coming in!

Did you already paint some easter eggs?

Things are going on fast, the due date for our Postage People swap is only 5 days away, and more ATCs are finding their way to my mailbox. Today Donna´s beautiful ATCs arrived - just have a look at them here.

Postage People - only one week left!

Most of the envelopes I´m waiting for are on their way now, and we´ve had another sign up last week. Look here and you´ll see that Lubna´s ATCs do not look like last minute cards at all!

And Karen´s and Mandy´s ATCs have just arrived here - you can see Mandy´s lovely cards here.

Moo Cards Children

This week´s challenge at Make a Moo or Two is Children. I couldn´t resist to use these stamps I haven´t used for a long time - their size is just perfect for Moo cards! (Stamps by Stempelmine, Zettiology, and Cherry Pie)

Learning German

These are ATCs for a Letter D swap that work only in German - Denken means Thinking, Dach is Roof, and Dunkelmänner are Obscurantists in English.

Unfortunately the scan doesn´t show the thin copper wire on the first card, marking the thoughts going round your brain.

A Pair of Glasses

This week´s Wednesday Stamper´s challenge is "A Pair of Glasses", so here´s my arch for that theme.

A touch of spring

In case you´ve asked yourself why I´ve done the spring cleaning on my blog yesterday while some of you still have loads of snow in front of their homes - this is what I can see on my balcony today ...

One last ambitious fish

This last ATC for the fish swap is about something I don´t like at all - ambition.

I´ve had a little blog cleaning today and labelled all previous entries. I hope this will make it easier for you (and me) to navigate on my blog. You´ll find the labels in the sidebar.

More Fish

Two more for the fish swap - "Through the ruins" and "Go - but not with the crowd".

Postage People Update

You can see Belinda´s beautiful Postage People ATCs on her blog now - and they are already here.

Lost in the Sea

My third ATC for the fish swap.

In the air tonight

My second ATC for the fish swap.

Postage People Update

Hi swap participants, I´ve just sent another update via e-mail to you all. As I have major problems contacting people because of spam filters I´m not sure if you all received my mail; if not, please let me know.

I´m waiting for 8 more envelopes. The due date is only two weeks away, so if your cards aren´t already here or in the mail please send them soon so that they arrive before March 15. Or if you can´t meet the deadline, please let me know.

As mute as a maggot ...

... means "Stumm wie ein Fisch" in German, so this is my first ATC for a fish themed swap.

My Favourite Colour

... is this week´s theme for the Make a Moo Or Two challenge. My favourite colour is everything between blue and green including purple and plum and ...

I´ve just tried this test and found out that I´m seagreen ;-)) Which is your colour?

Skinny Book - L is for Lascivious

This is my letter L page for our Paper Traders Skinny Alphabet Book project. My book´s theme is "In the Mood", and this time our challenge was to use gold leaf on the page. So the small stamped circles in the background are made with real gold leaf.

Sing!

In my imagination the little boy gets coloured when he starts to sing ...

I let my eyes wander ...

... look where they´re going.

Stars

My entry for this week´s Wednesday Stamper´s theme "Stars" features my favourite star stamps by Art Impressions as well as a beautiful background paper that Marilyn sent me. Thanks Marilyn, I told you I´d use it soon!

Postage People Update

Lay Hoon´s ATCs have arrived today, and Beckie signed up for our swap; you can see her ATCs here.

Travel Moos

Three very different Moo cards for this week´s "Make a Moo or two" theme "travel".

Skinny Saturday

Here´s my contribution for this week´s Skinny Saturday.

Pacific Flyway

Hope the birds will come back soon, we´ve had winter long enough now.

Bookmark

I´m late this week, but here´s my entry for the Wednesday Stamper´s theme "Bookmarks".