Some winter pictures just because it's pretty--from the inside!

Another swap for the Everything Wendy Vecchi yahoo group

This swap required that we alter a tin of the altoid type. I found some tins made for presenting gift cards and went with it. I used Ranger Ink acrylic dabber paint for the outside and covered it with Ranger Rock Candy crackle paint. The stamps are Wendy Vecchi's with the exception of the small gold motif which is Judikins. The pic shows the outside and inside of two different tins.

I'm so ready for winter to be kaput! This is what I woke up to last Wednesday

I lived near Austin, TX for 12 years and loved the winters there after living all my life in Michigan. I avoided the extreme heat when I could in mid-summer, but there were winters when the temps never got down to freezing. Didn't have or need a winter coat. In 2006 I was downsized out of my job in TX, my daughter was carrying the baby who would likely be my last grandchild, and my mother had issues and needed help, so I headed back to Michigan to be near my family.

I loved the snow and playing in it as a child--whatever was I thinking!! Wednesday I had to bring the shovel in the house and push the snow off the porch in front of the door to get outside. Sure glad the shovel was in the attached garage! The second picture is looking out from inside the garage. Nice imprint of the door trim in the snow! We got a foot of snow, but the wind neatly arranged it into drifts. Winter begone!

Chunky ATC Swap

I belong to various yahoo groups relating mostly to paper/altered arts and frequently groups will have swaps among the members. In December 2010, I participated in one with the Everything Wendy Vecchi group. We swapped "chunky ATCs" which are basically 2.5" cuts of 2x4s. ATCs (artist trading cards) are usually flat, sometimes done on a playing card, so this presented a challenge of having more surfaces to alter. We had to use some Wendy Vecchi rubber stamps, marketed as Studio 490 by Stamper Anonymous. Here is the front and back of the two I did.

They were great fun to create. I like the idea of changing a scrap of 2x4 into a piece of art. One of these days I'll do more. (Oh no--one more thing on my "one of these days" list!