New ATCs on Flickr

Yesterday I finished off two ATCs that just needed the final touch, and made two cowgirl-themed ones from scratch. All are available on my Flickr page (see link on left). Here's one of them. I used various stamps to make stylised cacti for the background.

More is more...

...Well, when it comes to zetti anyway. Had a lot of fun making this skinny (my first), piling on the doodads. Now it's winging its way to Barrie, Ontario, the last of my swapbot swaps. I am taking a short break from it because just lately I have had more than my fair share of no sends, missing mail and people not reading the brief properly! I've fulfilled 49 swaps this year - suppose I should have made it a round 50, but never mind.

Speedball! Yaaay!

Never fear, I'm not high on coke and smack; I'm talking the Speedball Speedy-Carve stamp making kit. I bought it for around a tenner from Blade Rubber Stamps a few months ago and it's only today that I decided to play with it (as an alternative to ordering more craft goodies I do not need).

Being an impatient and sloppy crafter, I didn't bother tracing complicated images and doing it properly - just drew freehand on the rubber and got gouging :-) My intention was always to create primitive looking designs (I know my limitations) and I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. (I carved a fish too but it didn't turn out that great.) This is just a test piece; it's not intended to be great art.