Full Deck Challenge #4 Week 7

 Kept this one simple.  Only used 4/8 I think....dark blue, coral, tree, book page.  The leaves on the trees are raised and sparkly, love the texture.

Full Deck Challenge #4 - Week 6

 I used 5 of 6 prompts, I'm not really a shaker box gal....

Light blue, turquoise, sheet music, black marks and flowers.

Full Deck Challenge #4 - Week 5

 This week I used 4 of 8 prompts - Orange, happy scraps, sentiment, dark green (didn't use hearts, zigzag, lace or buttons)

Full Deck Challenge #4 - Week 4

Used 6 of 8 prompts:  Texture, sequins, person, ribbon, yellow, light green (did not use OCEAN or GLITTER)

Full Deck Challenge #4 - Week 1

            There were 8 "prompts" that we could choose from today, I was able to include 7 of them.  

Green, Squares, Butterfly, Numbers, (Bird), Bright Pink, Hole Punch and Red.  I had lots of birds but couldn't find a place that one seemed to fit.  I do like it.  Took awhile hunting up all the "stuff."

ATCs

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Fierce & Fabulous ATC

Made for the heck of it, because I loved the stamp

April, 2026

26.12

     26.12.1  cag

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Bug Troubles (Now What?) ATC

April 2026

12.11

     12.11.1  cag

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Steampunk Spring ATC 

Set of 3 - but more to come?  I like them....

Made for a JJCV swap April 2026

26.10 Created mid-April, 2026

     26.10.1  cag

     26.10.2

     26.10.3

Clara Nurtures ATC

No. 6 in AALL Young Misses series

Created March/April 2026

26.11

     26.11.1

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     26.11.3

Holly Creates ATC

No. 5 in AALL Young Misses series

Created March/April 2026

26.10

     26.10.1

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Love My Pet ATC Set of 7

26.7 Created 3/29/2026

     26.7.1  cag

     26.7.2  Mary Griffiths

     26.7.3  Sheila Ingham

     26.7.4  Rhonda Katz

     26.7.5  Christie Glebe

     26.7.6  Chaz Shields

     26.7.7  Lynn Marie Alltop

           extras - HUGS & Sayings

     26.6.8  Linda Johnson

     26.7.9  Trina Marie (K. Baffano)

     26.7.10  Staci Schachermeyer

     26.7.11  

     26.7.12  Lyndsay Prager

Go for it! ATC set of 10

26.5 created 3/1/2026  

     26.5.1  Lyndsay Prager

     26.5.2   Nancy Bolduc

     26.5.3  Jeanna Collins

     26.5.4  Lisa Frase

     26.5.5  cag

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     26.5.7  

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     26.5.0

St. Paddy Kitty ATC

26.6 created late February 2026

     26.6.1

     26.6.2  Lindsay Prager

     26.6.3  Frances Finnegan

Boho ATC Swap through JJCV

26.4 created February 2026

       26.4.1  Izzy I.

       26.4.2  Tracy W.

       26.4.3

       26.4.4  cag

3 of Diamonds

26.3 Created January 2026

     26.3.1 (Or Dog)  Nancy Bolduc

     26.3.2 (Gr Gal)  Lisa Frase

     26.3.3 (R Teddy)

     26.3.4

BEE HAPPY

(Color Your World Swap thru JJCV)

26.2 Created January 2026

     26 2.1  Jill A.

     26.2.2  Tracy W.

     26.2.3   Nancy B.

     26.2.4   Sandi B.

     26.2.5   Rhonda C.

     26.2.6  cag

     26.2.7  

     

APC Colorful Collage - Spades

26.1 Created January 2026

     26.1.1 (2SpY) Mary G

     26.1.2 (3SpO)  Sheila I

     26.1.3 (4SpBr)

     26.1.4 (5SpW)FD  cag

     26.1.5 (6SpGO)

Gretchen Blooms ATCs

25.6 Created December 2025

     25.6.1  cag

     25.6.2  Sheila I

     25.6.3 (blue) Mary G

     25.6.4

     25.6.5  Tracy W.

Renata Celebrates ATCs

25.5 Created December 2025

     25.5.1  cag

     25.5.2  (No Sugar skull or Dia De Los Muertos)

                   Stacey

     25.5.3  Tracy W.

     25.5.4  Nancy Bolduc

    

Fiona Sings ATCs

25.4 Created December 2025

     25.4.1   Holly C.

     25.4.2  Jackie H

     25.4.3  Jill A

     25.4.4  Melissa S

     25.4.5  cag

     25.4.6  Tracy W.

Beatrice Reads ATCs (MudPud page)

25.3  Created November 2025

     25.3.1  Katie

     25.3.2  Stacey

         25.3.3  Sheila I

         25.3.4  Lyndsay P

         25.3.5  Mary G

         25.3.6  cag

         25.3.7  Angela C

         25.3.8  Tracy W. (ripped & glued)

Colors of Fall ATCs 

25.2.(1-9) Created September 2025

     25.2.1  P. J. J

     25.2.2  Staci S

     25.2.3  Susan C

     25.2.4  Yvonne B

        25.2.5  Jeri Dawn McRae

        25.2.6

        25.2.7

        25.2.8  Sandi Baecker

        25.2.9  Lisa Frase

8/2025 ATCs  

25.1.(1-9) Created August 2025

     25.1.1  Mary G (8/25)

     25.1.2  Debra A (8/25)

     25.1.3   Heidi M (8/25)

     25.1.4   Alyssa T (8/25)

        25.1.5

"Beatrice Reads" - A New ATC Series

 I love my AALL stamps, and I've decided to make a series of ATCs using the three I already have.  I finished the first two and gave them to Stacey and Katie, and now I've sent these three out to Sheila I, Lyndsay P, and Mary G in JJCV.

                                   

Using Playing Cards in Junk Journals

Annette Green photocopies a playing card so that it's a bit bigger (and white on the other side) to create a decorated pocket that a regular size playing card can tuck into as a tag. She also shows how to create a frame with kings, queens, jacks..... Find that video here.  

Here's the video that shows gluing tiny bits of book pages to playing cards and turning them really vintage-y.  Fun, easy process!  Find it here.  #Treasure Books

Week 3 - Playing Card Tags | Summer Fun Ephemera Challenge - Let's make Ephemera Series

Here's the YouTube video

Sweet Bee Designs Co.  (22:10)

Tash Marie Makes created some grunged-up yet sorta simple ATCs....she's pasted 3 cards on top of each other (a little thick?), then tissue paper for texture and so inks will stick.....They look great!  See the video here.

Cathy's Garden covers playing cards with watered down Elmer's gue, then covers with thin paper - tissue, napkins, etc.....then embellishes with a word or two, puts int a small grommet and hangs off a couple of beads.  Super cool!  Video's here.

Shanouki decoupages her cards (with both pattern paper, then napkins), adding lots of distress ink.  Then she sews on a piece of vellum for a pocket and shows a couple of cute little tags to go into the pockets.  I want to make a whole deckful of these!  Watch how.

Brenda Clark aka The Happy Crafter takes 10 playing cards at a time and gets them ready for more embellishments.  She uses torn paper, tissue paper, washi tape, and oxide paints.  See the YouTube video here.

Two Old Crows Mixed Media makes an accordian booklet that holds 10 cards (or more).  They look pretty darned easy!  Video here.

Sue's Journal Adventures uses two playing cards the same size to create a framed opening that shows another card inside.  She uses acetate to cover it, but I don't think you really have to.  A bit of work, but very worth it, artistic and fun.  See the YouTube video here.

Shanouki has a few easy steps to create very cool vintage-y cards....glue & rip small pieces of book page, using gesso glue on white tissue paper to each side, coffee dye , then add liquid pigment ink, then vintaged cello tape.  Cool, cool, cool, mass make a handful!  Check it out here.

Cathy's Garden shows you a cute way to cut a circle or rectangle into the middle of a card, glue down some fabric (she used lacy fabric) and embellish it for a really different card.  Here's her video.

Christmas 2016 Letterbox Trading Cards (5 of 30)

Summertime's Finally Here!

Ah, another LTC, this time it came as a QUISP, underneath the address label of one of my postal ring exchanges!

Picnics & Parties!! :-D: Un-invited Guests

Porras Posse - CastleRock, CO

The Art of Letterboxing Trading Cards (LTCs)

There's a letterboxer in Indiana that's planted boxes all over the country, is part of postals, and shares hitchikers.  She's an outstanding carver (as you can see below).  As a thank you for returning a full logbook to her, she sent me the most wonderful package of LTCs and goodies.  What a wonderful surprise gift!  Even the mailer she created was really cool!  Wait 'til you see her work:

Laurel Burch Art:  Zig Zag Cats 

LTC 4 of 16

Jabber - March 2016

The Art of Communication - 2016 Year of the Monkey

aMAZEing adventure frog - February 2016

The Art of Scherenschnitte: Cut Paper KITTEN

LTC 6 of 26

Jabber - September 2014

Crazy About Cats! What's in This Box?

LTC 23 of 30

Jabber - December 2014

PLAY - The Kite Runner

Wow. Three thumbs up.
Arizona Theatre Company
Temple of Music and Art
Sept. 23, 2009 with Sheila
My rating: R
Directed by David Ira Goldstein

I've read the book, written by Khaled Hosseini. Loved it. I've seen the movie. Wonderful. And now I've seen the play, screenwritten by Matthew Spangler. Powerful. Leaving the air snapping with electricity, this stage production was wonderfully crafted, gut-wrenching, and quite unforgettable. I felt sorry for the people who had no clue about the story and were unprepared for the enormity of what they were about to see. The two young men who portrayed the two boys, Amir and Hassan, were wonderful. Believable. And always present, narrating the entire play, was the grown-up Amir. I cannot imagine givening this performance each and every day. I was exhausted and wrung out just watching it!

I have a zillion positive things to say, and only two slightly negative. (1 - The two young men playing the leads should have had a curtain call just prior to the lead Amir, not so close to the beginning of the curtain calls. 2 - The scene with Amir praying for the first time in two decades was loud and jarring and too overdone for me. It seemed out of place somehow.)

Cowardice. Guilt. Redemption. Growing into yourself. Growing up. Thanks, Sheila, for a wonderful seat smack dab in the middle of the orchestra section, and a wonderful (if very late)evening.