Art Journal Page Swap for February

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, we're doing an art journal page swap.  My February person's theme is vintage.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Found Relatives Swap

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, I'm hosting a Found Relatives swap for the month of May.  I'm asking that participants simply do something creative with the Tim Holtz Found Relatives.  I have many old books, so I took old book covers and covered them either vintage dictionary pages or scrapbook papers. I also used vintage ledger pages for the backgrounds.  I used paint and stencils on the backgrounds.  I had fun making these collages. Thanks for stopping by!

Halloween ATCs

I'm hosting a vintage Halloween ATC swap at the artisttradingcards yahoo group.  I got in a set of the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Framelets, the Retro Halloween set.  These sets include stamps and thin dies.  So you stamp the image and then use the die to cut it out.  I love these! The stars are Tim Holtz Mirror Stars colored black with a Copic marker. The German scrap is available at Collage Stuff.  Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

Sample for a new swap

I love the new cabinet card frames from Advantus and Tim Holtz. When I saw them,  the first thing that went through my head was how wonderful these would be to use in a swap.  These frames are like a sleeve.  You can slide in a photo, your own art or whatever!  The May swap at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group is going to be a Cabinet Card Frame Swap.

Whenever I announce a new swap at the group, I have to provide at least one sample, so here is the first sample.
The base image is from one of the French Ephemera Collage Sheets available at Collage Stuff.  The remaining images inside the oval are from Tumble Fish Studios at the Deviant Scraps website.  I added  little pink jewels and accents with gold Liquid Pearls.  The pink ruler ribbon, flowers and little gold metal accents are available at Collage Stuff.  Of course, the Cabinet Card Frames are also available at Collage Stuff.  The frames come in a pack of 5. I added some interest to the frame by stamping haphazardly with brown archival ink.
The frames hold something about 4" x 6".  I cut a piece of cardstock 4" x 6" and created my art on this base.  This size gives you a little wiggle room to position the finished art inside the frame.
Thanks for stopping by!