2012 ATC birthday Swap

[Sharon]

OK I'm closing the swap now girls,

this should be lots of fun

cheers Sharon

[Annette Garcia]

I arrived home yesterday to find a number of envelopes from all over the world waiting for me.  Wonderful, thank you so much everyone.  Today is my birthday eve and I cannot wait any longer :) so...

Ellen – Lovely tatted sunflowers ATC with a hand coloured background, a packet of really useful sequins and interesting postage stamps

Tahlia - An exciting red & gold ATC using a background of woven fabric strips and a sweet note card for future use

Maja – A delightful ATC made with her own hand-dyed felt and threads in lovely blues and violets. Also a sweet little hanging felt bird.

Eileen – gorgeous beach scene stitched onto (hand?) coloured felt and using tiny, tiny shells. Eileen sent a beautiful bracelet made from crochet gold thread and blue beads as well.

Susan – An exquisite cross stitch ATC, using an amazing overdyed thread. The ATC came wrapped in lovely silver ribbon

Thank you so much everyone, all the ATCs are beautiful and I appreciate the time you have taken to make them.

Regards, Annette

[Eileen Carkett]

I am so glad that the ATC arrived in time and that you liked it. The background was made with the embellisher and hand dyed fibres.

It's my son's birthday on February 6th. He lived in NZ for three years, Nelson and Wellington and we went to see him and your lovely country.

Happy Birthday!

Eileen

in the UK with a foot of snow this morning.

Annette Garcia said:

I arrived home yesterday to find a number of envelopes from all over the world waiting for me.  Wonderful, thank you so much everyone.  Today is my birthday eve and I cannot wait any longer :) so...

Ellen – Lovely tatted sunflowers ATC with a hand coloured background, a packet of really useful sequins and interesting postage stamps

Tahlia - An exciting red & gold ATC using a background of woven fabric strips and a sweet note card for future use

Maja – A delightful ATC made with her own hand-dyed felt and threads in lovely blues and violets. Also a sweet little hanging felt bird.

Eileen – gorgeous beach scene stitched onto (hand?) coloured felt and using tiny, tiny shells. Eileen sent a beautiful bracelet made from crochet gold thread and blue beads as well.

Susan – An exquisite cross stitch ATC, using an amazing overdyed thread. The ATC came wrapped in lovely silver ribbon

Thank you so much everyone, all the ATCs are beautiful and I appreciate the time you have taken to make them.

Regards, Annette

[Kalona Simmons]

Hi Annette,

I've made a booboo...having been all diligent and up to date on all my swaps i went to fill in my swap book and found I'd missed your birthday!! So very sorry, will play today and pop in the post for you!! You will have  a birthday month instead!!

Best wishes for tomorrow,

xxx

[Kalona Simmons]

Such a shame the bead broke... I thought I'd protected it enough...lesson learnt!!

I'm glad it found you though, and that you like it. It was fun to make- I like making backgrounds and then find different ways to embellish. Hope you had a wonderful birthday!

Kal,xxx

(btw- my birthname is Holt, not many of us left here now...)

Tahlia said:

This beautiful peacock feather is from Kalona!

It had a little heart-shaped leaf bead at the center of the peacock's eye which sadly got cracked in half in the mail. <sniff!> but I think this peacock feather is just gorgeous with or without that bead, and I will find a way to use the pieces of the broken bead in another artwork, even! Kalona handpainted a canvas background for this ATC, then stitched metallic thread accents and beads for energy and sparkle. the eye of the feather is made from fused Angelina fiber! Super!! Thank you! .. and I love the little envelope you sent it in-- it is going to go into one of my scrapbooks for sure!

[elizabeth watson]

would love to join in birthday swap my birthday is july 13

[Jeannette]

Happy Birthday Annette!  Hope you're having a wonderful day.  I posted your atc on Friday so I'm sorry, but it will be a bit late.

Jeannette

Annette Garcia said:

I arrived home yesterday to find a number of envelopes from all over the world waiting for me.  Wonderful, thank you so much everyone.  Today is my birthday eve and I cannot wait any longer :) so...

Ellen – Lovely tatted sunflowers ATC with a hand coloured background, a packet of really useful sequins and interesting postage stamps

Tahlia - An exciting red & gold ATC using a background of woven fabric strips and a sweet note card for future use

Maja – A delightful ATC made with her own hand-dyed felt and threads in lovely blues and violets. Also a sweet little hanging felt bird.

Eileen – gorgeous beach scene stitched onto (hand?) coloured felt and using tiny, tiny shells. Eileen sent a beautiful bracelet made from crochet gold thread and blue beads as well.

Susan – An exquisite cross stitch ATC, using an amazing overdyed thread. The ATC came wrapped in lovely silver ribbon

Thank you so much everyone, all the ATCs are beautiful and I appreciate the time you have taken to make them.

Regards, Annette

[Sharon]

I'm really sorry Elizabeth but this Swap Closed in December

the Birthday Swap is a year long Swap that started in January

Each person in the swap sends a card to the birthday girl.....So you have to be in it for the Whole year. Perhaps some one might run another one.....

Put it up as a discussion and see if anyone is interested in starting another birthday swap group....

cheers and happy stitching

 
elizabeth watson said:

would love to join in birthday swap my birthday is july 13

[Tahlia]

Cool!
Kalona Simmons said:

(btw- my birthname is Holt, not many of us left here now...)

[Ellen Lai]

Eileen's mail from UK is here !!!

Can I open it now or wait ? But I don't think I can hold myself for too long !

Ellen

[Eileen Carkett]

Hi Ellen,

It's up to you.

I wasn't sure how long it would take to reach you, so I had to post early, probably too early.

It took longer than the card to NZ.

"Happy Birthday"

Eileen

 

 

[Kalona Simmons]

Mine should be with you soon... not sure how long post takes, UK to you... but you can open when it arrives- no standing on ceremony!! Enjoy!

Kal,x

 

[Susan]

Hi Ellen

I am posting your ATC on Monday. Postie says only 5 days from Australia so it might be early. Have a wonderful day and enjoy all your treasures.

Susan