Thursday, January 21, 2010

Love gone wild...



So, I signed up for a (small) swap - 4 ATCs only (yeah, I made 6, I know), to the theme of Love Gone Wild. This is being run by the lovely Lenna, over at Creative Swaps - she's been relocating and stuff lately, so this is the first swap she's done in a while, but I know we're all glad she's back in action...

Anyway, the theme is "Love Gone Wild". I've been letting this percolate in my brain for a week or so now, and the main images that kept popping up were overgrown gardens, jungles, and so on - which is certainly one kind of going wild.

So anyway, today I had a little free time at home after the washing machine repair guy had gone and before I had to go into work for the afternoon (I took the morning off) and I decided to work on these ATCs - I started with a fabric base - an old table napkin in this instance - and did a lot of free-motion leaves on it. Why I did this, I'm not entirely sure, as most of it doesn't now show, but it all adds to the textures... I then added some skeleton leaves, then animal print paper and the kiss images. Then I added some large burgundy leaves, the flower stick-ons and the dragonflies. I really like how these turned out, just hope they are "wild" enough.

10 comments:

black bear cabin said...

these are really beautiful Kate...i hope you made a few extra so you would keep one for yourself :)

sewkalico said...

Gorgeous! Love them!

bockel24 said...

Lovely!

TexasRed said...

Awesome!

Kathy said...

They have definitely gone wild! The recipients will love them, I'm sure.

Mom

creativelenna said...

i love these, Kate. Thanks so much for participating! : ) lenna

Cindy Is Crafty said...

Kate, these are really pretty. Great cards!

Shannon said...

These ATCs for Lenna's swap are really lovely. I love how you did these, great presentation.

~*~Patty Szymkowicz said...

I am visiting you from Carole's Madness and Mess, saw your lovely ATCs on her blog!
These are gorgeous too!

Also very fond of your "Alex" creation, one of my boys names!

oxo

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