NOT Hand-drawn/ hand-painted - FLOWERS (flowers, trees, gardens)~Due September 18 ( non-Australians - August 21)

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For the purple one, I used black tea to paint the book page that I used for the background and some petals. The petals didn’t pop like I wanted, so I ended up painting the background with watercolors.
 

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welcome to LilRhody, EmsArt and Joanna1224
LisaTheCardlady
- beautiful cards with great texture behind the flowers
MarloweSinclair - love the clear background, beautiful way to show off your flowers
Joanna1224 - love the start of your cards, and the next 2 also
mrubyjean - love the stitched details on your cards
MissP - love the variety in your cards
leydab - great cards with a vintage feel

for all those who have mailed their cards - I will tell you when they arrive
 
I would like to sign up please. I recently carved this stamp, because I could rather than any specific reason, and it then it occurred to me it would be perfect for this swap.

I originally planned to do cut paper on different backgrounds but after doing one realized I would never survive that much cutting… so instead I cut out masks to stamp 🤣.

I hope it’s not a violation of the rules - I did use a bit of pen to fill in a few black spots where I had lost track when I was carving and accidentally took too much. I didn’t really think of it as drawing because the only thing it had it common with it was the use of a pen, and it represents less than .05% what appears on the finished card.


 
Swap Due Date - September 18
Postage for non-Australians - August 21
I live in Australia - mail will NOT reach me quickly! I suggest you allow at least 4 weeks
Number of Cards - 3:3 or 6:6
Number of participants - unlimited
Medium - anything EXCEPT hand-drawn or hand-painted

I am very envious of those who can take a pencil or paintbrush and create something recognisable - I most definitely cannot! This swap is for all those people, like me, who find different ways to make a design. Some of the ways that you can create your cards are: stencils, die cuts, rubber stamps, note cards/scrapbooking paper, washi tape, tissue paper, postage stamps, retiform, iris folding, punches, embossing folders, emboss resist or anything else that you choose.
View attachment 831948tissue paper, postage stamps View attachment 831947retiform View attachment 831949notecard, stickers View attachment 831950rubber stamp

FUTURE TOPICS (all due on the 18th)
November - Dogs, January '27 - Celebrations (birthdays, fireworks, marches, National days) March - Birds May - in the air (balloons, hot air balloons, bubbles, planes, skydivers) July - Under the water (coral, fish, submarines, swimmers) September - Fantasy (fairies, gnomes, dragons) November - Christmas

Post to the thread to sign up or you can't get fun Rep comments.

PM me for my address when you are ready to mail - if you have an address in Robina I am still here. I am an on-time Host so please take note of the suggested mail date at the top of the thread.

Postage
Australian players
: please include a $1.85 stamp
International players: please include a well-hidden US $2 OR a Global Forever stamp

ALL players please include a LARGE address label (at least 2" x2"). I will provide envelopes.

1) do your best work - I plan to swap effort-for-effort as much as I can
2) clearly write your USERNAME and the SWAP NAME on the back of all your cards (so you can get fun Rep comments) and on the back of your mailing envelope. I am running a few swaps and do not want to put you with the wrong returns.
3) please mail early to allow time to reach Australia
4) an extra card for the swap Host is greatly appreciated but is not required
5) I will give feedback when I receive your cards and update this post. In return, I encourage you to give Host feedback when you receive your returns,, and Rep comments to the artists whose cards you receive. After all, knowing where your cards went is half the fun, I think.

PLAYERS
0. donnacr - received
1. ohfivetwo
2. mybrokenart
3. Sunny
4. NancyL
5. LuK
6.LilRhody
7.leydab
8. mrubyjean
9. MACE
10. MissP
11. MarloweSinclair
12. janae
13. SiouxCitySue
14. mybrokenart
15. Antjen
16. Kniteach
17. GWTW
18. LisaTheCardLady
19. Joanna1224
20. EmsArt
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Hi Donna— I’d love to sign up for this!
 
LilRhody - I have you signed up as #6 (I had double signed up LisatheCardLady)
Amai - you are signed up as #2 (I had double signed up mybrokenart). Great cards - made with a hand carved stamp has nothing to do with HD/HP, touching up a few places is fine.
I have now checked and no more double sign ups :embarrassed:

For all those who have mailed cards I will tell you when they arrive.
Came home from a visit to Melbourne for a grand-daughter's birthday to a huge bundle of mail. Amongst the envelopes were cards from: Sunny, MACE, SiouxCitySue, mybrokenart, Antjen and LisatheCardLady
 
for those lurking or wanting to collage flowers - I have been having a lot of fun on YouTube looking at various 'Flowers made from circle paper'. Lots of different techniques - some more time consuming than others but all fun.
welcome to all the people who have signed up this week - sorry for being MIA but I have my 2 sisters visiting from Melbourne. We haven't seen each other for quite a while so there is a lot of chat, eating and laughter and not a lot of time to do anything else.
Gorgeous flowers shown by mybrokenart and MACE (good luck with your surgery) - I will tell you when they arrive
ohfivetwo - your gorgeous flowers arrived on Thursday
janae - great start, I can't wait to see the other flowers you come up with

Swap Due Date - September 18
Postage for non-Australians - August 21
I live in Australia - mail will NOT reach me quickly! I suggest you allow at least 4 weeks
Number of Cards - 3:3 or 6:6
Number of participants - unlimited
Medium - anything EXCEPT hand-drawn or hand-painted

I am very envious of those who can take a pencil or paintbrush and create something recognisable - I most definitely cannot! This swap is for all those people, like me, who find different ways to make a design. Some of the ways that you can create your cards are: stencils, die cuts, rubber stamps, note cards/scrapbooking paper, washi tape, tissue paper, postage stamps, retiform, iris folding, punches, embossing folders, emboss resist or anything else that you choose.
View attachment 831948tissue paper, postage stamps View attachment 831947retiform View attachment 831949notecard, stickers View attachment 831950rubber stamp

FUTURE TOPICS (all due on the 18th)
November - Dogs, January '27 - Celebrations (birthdays, fireworks, marches, National days) March - Birds May - in the air (balloons, hot air balloons, bubbles, planes, skydivers) July - Under the water (coral, fish, submarines, swimmers) September - Fantasy (fairies, gnomes, dragons) November - Christmas

Post to the thread to sign up or you can't get fun Rep comments.

PM me for my address when you are ready to mail - if you have an address in Robina I am still here. I am an on-time Host so please take note of the suggested mail date at the top of the thread.

Postage
Australian players
: please include a $1.85 stamp
International players: please include a well-hidden US $2 OR a Global Forever stamp

ALL players please include a LARGE address label (at least 2" x2"). I will provide envelopes.

1) do your best work - I plan to swap effort-for-effort as much as I can
2) clearly write your USERNAME and the SWAP NAME on the back of all your cards (so you can get fun Rep comments) and on the back of your mailing envelope. I am running a few swaps and do not want to put you with the wrong returns.
3) please mail early to allow time to reach Australia
4) an extra card for the swap Host is greatly appreciated but is not required
5) I will give feedback when I receive your cards and update this post. In return, I encourage you to give Host feedback when you receive your returns,, and Rep comments to the artists whose cards you receive. After all, knowing where your cards went is half the fun, I think.

PLAYERS
0. donnacr - received
1. ohfivetwo - received

2. Amai
3. Sunny - received
4. NancyL
5. LuK
6.LilRhody
7.leydab
8. mrubyjean
9. MACE - received
10. MissP
11. MarloweSinclair
12. janae
13. SiouxCitySue - received
14. mybrokenart - received
15. Antjen - received

16. Kniteach
17. GWTW
18. LisaTheCardLady - received
19. Joanna1224
20. EmsArt
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Can I still join? I have been working on mine already and I can mail them as soon as I have your address.
 
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