8... I mean, 39 and 40 (number 8s)

Guess what the theme of this swap is.... go on, just guess!

thirty-five to thirty-eight: an attempt at vintage

I wanted to try making some "vintage" ATCs. Well. Mucking the paper up with coffee to age it was really fun. But it was all downhill from there. And there's not really too much vintage about these, I guess. Oh, well; I'm just not good at paper crafts. But no problem... more Zentangles and fabric ATCs to come :)

33 and 34: more altered Zentangle ATCs

More altered Zentangle ATCs. I liked these ones until I held them up next to the ones I did a couple weeks ago. For these ones, the original Zentangle was less intricate, has more white space I think, and it show after the cutting and pasting.

31, 32: dog and owl

Today's ATCs: a doggie ATC for a dog lover, and another owl ATC for an owl lover:



I love how the dog turned out. Apparently, FESPAkutya (the blue dog) liked it too, because he wanted to be in the picture :) The owl, on the other hand... he was supposed to look sleepy, but the more I worked on him, the more drunk he became. I still have time to stick a bottle under his wing, what do you think?

29 and 30: Awful, Terrible, Crappy ATCs 2

I think I've created a monster. There were the original Awful, Terrible, Crappy ATCs (below) for the original swap. I showed them off in this thread over on swap-bot. People liked them. I started a second Awful, Terrible, Crappy ATC swap. More people uploaded pictures... more terrible ATCs were being made... gah. What have I done? :)

Anyway, here's my newest crappy ATCs:

The truly funny thing is that my original intent with the awful ATCs was to use up some of the hideous stickers I've gotten as extras. Well... I've made 4 awful ATCs, all sticker free....

24, 25, 26, and 27, 28

These zeros are for the final of the Numbers ATCs swaps.

The ATCs below... well, they're not my best work. I won't say that I'm ashamed of them, but they're so hideous that I didn't want to give them their own post and have them hogging space at the top of the page!

Feast your eyes on these lovelies:

Awful, right? I sure hope so; they're for the Awful, Terrible, Crappy ATCs swap. Some wonderfully awful elements that you might have overlooked: the globs of glue on the first card... and the glue seeping through on the second. The ripped edge and shoddy size of the green one. It's a used envelope, by the way. The tape? The sparkle-sparkle of the blue stars? The way the plaid is skewed?

Okay, I admit, I had fun making these... way too much fun, actually. I was actually giggling like a madwoman. I do apologize to the very nice people who gifted me the plastic hearts in the first card, and the lovely fabric in the second: sorry to do such atrocious things with your nice gifts!

22, 23

Gah. A couple days ago I posted about an ATC that I enjoyed making, because the finished ATC looked quite similar to how I had imagined it.... these were just the opposite. I didn't really enjoy making them and I don't really like them now.

I don't know what it is I dislike about this little owls... okay, they're cute enough, but something just isn't working for me here. Maybe the drab colors? Lack of colors - I mean, not enough different colors? I don't know.

Anyway, one of them is destined for this swap, and the other is a tag.