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Happy WOYWW to you all! We are just a few weeks away from the great WOYWW ATC Swap of 2012 and I am excited to learn that so many 1st-time ATC makers will be joining this event! To encourage those of you who are still on the fence, here’s a few more ATCs to get [...]
Wow… how many of you can you believe that it’s not only time for another week of WOYWW, but that it’s also time to ring in the month of May! Before you know it, Week 156 of WOYWW will be here… the week that many of us will be exchanging ATCs with one another! To [...]
Give Thanks – Artist Trading Card Happy Wordless Wednesday, dear friends! This week, we are celebrating Thanksgiving in the United States. What are you most grateful for? Please take a moment to share your thoughts! I’m grateful that I will be spending the holidays with people I love. I do not take one moment of [...]
Happy Independence Day Weekend! I’m kicking off July by joining the Two Crazy Crafters Patriotic ATC Blog Hop – and I invite you to as well! For those of you who are new to the genre, ATC stands for Artist Trading Card. It is a miniature piece of art – measuring 2 ½ x 3 [...]
A Very Festive Holiday ATC From Grace Happy Wednesday, fellow WOYWWers! This week, with Christmas just around the corner, I’ve had very little time to play in The Paper Palace, so I thought I’d share some art that I’ve recently received in the mail! Indian Dreams From Jessie Mae Jessie Mae blessed me with an amazing [...]
ATC by The Paper Princess Happy Thanksgiving dear friends! As I reflect upon the many blessings of this past year – to numerous to count – I want you to know how appreciative I am of each and every one of you! Enjoy your day! Enjoy your meal! Enjoy Songs of Worship #10: Thanksgiving Medley, [...]
ATC JAMS: Flight Of The ButterflyDesigners: Lynette Sprengel, Kathy Eddy, and Me Happy What’s On Your Workspace Wednesday! Your response to last week’s post on ATC JAMS was amazing, so I wanted to open today by sharing the completed cards. After considering several design options, I decided to add clear dewdrops to the card [...]
Autumn ATC: Brilliant Colors When I think about Autumn, Robert Frost’s classic poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay, always comes to mind. I first discovered this poetic gem as a young girl when Ponyboy recited the poem to Johnny during a particularly poignant scene from S.E. Hinton’s award-winning novel, The Outsiders: Nature’s first green is gold, Her [...]
ATC JAMS – Work In Progress – Spots 1 & 2 Completed Last week, I received an exciting an unexpected surprise in the mail: an envelope filled with three ATC JAMS! For those of you unfamiliar with this term, ATC JAMS stands for Artist Trading Cards – Just Add More Stuff! It is a round robin ATC swap where three [...]
I’ve wanted to experiment with non-traditional ATCs for quite some time, so for Shirl’s Name ATC – I cut a 3.5 x 5 inch cardstock base – folded the cardstock in half (so that the folded card equals the traditional 2.5 x 3.5 inch ATC dimensions) - then created a beautiful heart border using a Martha Stewart punch [...]
I created Sweet Margie for one of my friends in the ATC Name Swap and thought this would be the perfect card to share with the Daring Cardmakers It’s A Girl Thing Dare in honor of Girlfriend’s Day on August 1st! The Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply Challenge: Markers (GC62) inspired me to pull out my Tombow Markers and sharpen [...]
Today, Seth at The Altered Page is hosting Buried Treasure 2010: an online, collaborative project that invites art bloggers to go into the depths of their blogs and dig for buried treasure. For this project, each participant was asked to repost one of their favorite posts from their own blog. As Seth says, “There are so [...]
I created this ATC for my friend Linda as part of a Name ATC Swap I’ve been participating in for several months now. Linda is a tremendous woman of faith, and I wanted send her a card to commemorate that. I chose the pretty blue and purple color scheme and added the delicate flowers to provide [...]
Last month, through the generosity of Jackie Garbarino of Altered Pages, I hosted a giveaway to celebrate several milestones at Create With Joy. These included writing my 150th post, surpassing 250 followers, and receiving over 8000 visitors from 78 countries in the past five months! I am humbled, amazed and blessed by how good the blogging [...]
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted the ATCs I’ve made for the Names ATC swap, so today, I thought I’d share my latest. This trio is unique because they are are the only ones I created as part of a series within the swap! The other day, I came across three lovely Rebecca Sower images [...]