Sending birds to Sweden...

 Every Inchie Monday #41: Key

I think this is the first time I did something other than draw in this challenge!

I ripped a piece from an old Danish book page a bit smaller than an inch to allow the key to stick outside it...

The key I cut from patterned cardstock and attached with adhesive dots. And then just a little bling to top it off...

Zentangled ATC

This one I drew for a pocket letter going out today for someone who also likes to tangle...

The brown cardstock was wrapped around a pack of yogurts. I thought the color was perfect for some brown tangles...

Kozy - Jalousie - Inapod - Numph

Pocket Letter Pals: Owl Pocket Letter for Sweden

I absolutely love owls! What a great theme...

I had nothing at all with owls. Thank God for my very good friend Google!

I printed images, some as cards, some to use on cardstock. Added some buttons and bling...

I really love making these!

This middle pocket is my favorite...

This is a one-time swap. So it's just a short letter. Since I am sending to Sweden I can write in Danish. Swedish and Danish are somewhat alike.

If there's words in Swedish I can't guess the meaning of I try to say them out loud. It's funny but somehow that makes it easier. Maybe because many words are alike but spelled differently...

Of course the envie has owls too. Never do anything halfheartedly! lol!

More outgoing mail...

Japan, Canada, Singapore and Thailand... I try to cover the entire planet! ;)

You might have noticed my favorite animals are cats and owls...

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Inches and mail to Japan...

Every Inchie Monday #39: Hotel

Just barely making the deadline for this one!

I tried to think of something that no one had done for this week's prompt...

Every Inchie Monday #40: Lumberjack

Honestly I had no idea what the word meant!

Of course then I googled it. So a man in a plaid shirt with an axe is a sex symbol?!? Who would have thought?

Well, okay... Scrolling down to Hugh Jackman in plaid, with an axe... I get the point... Lol!

I thought this was going to be a tough one...

I started out drawing an axe, then had the thought of adding the plaid. So I fussy cut the axe and gluedotted it onto the plaid.

Not too bad, if I do say so myself...

Two by Two by Tuesday: Hot

Fall has arrived in Denmark.

The wind is whirling brown leaves and most of the time rain is trickling down my windows...

Though I really am not fond of all the wet weather I do enjoy the dark evenings with candlelight and fire in the wood stove.

This is our wood stove...

For once I decided to go with a pencil drawing...

Pocket Letter for Japan

I had previously sent washi samples for a swap-bot swap to Naoko in Japan and she asked if I would swap a pocket letter.

We settled on our shared loved for the colors blue/green...

The blue with flowers I cut from a Rosina Wachtmeister poster that was to be trashed. I do like recycling...

The quotes I printed from the web...

The punched butterfly was sent to me from India.

Naoko is also a tangler so I tangled her an ATC. She also loves dolphins...

Yesterday I sent out two pocket letters themed owls for India and Sweden... But that show and tell will be for another day...

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Myth and butterflies for India...

Every Inchie Monday #38: Myth

This was a though one for me. It was unicorn or mermaid...

My horses looks just as much like hyenas, so I didn't really feel like trying my hand at a magical unicorn/hyena!

Mermaid it is... Though one.

But at least it doesn't look like a hyena...lol!

Pocket Letter: Butterflies

A girl from India contacted med on pocketletterpals.com and asked for a swap. The theme is one we both love; butterflies!

The purple watercolored paper is actually cut from the packaging of a set of brushes. The dotted green is from a pack of stickers... I like to recycle!

I printed some pretty butterfly artsy pictures off the web and made a little pocket sized book (middle left) with them.

Goodies in the back of the pockets. Stickers, wooden hearts, diecuts with butterflies (and a letter), little bag of Danish candy, bag of bling, butterfly book and stickynotes, butterfly printouts and punchies, bag of buttons, washi samples...

And of course, some butterflies on the envie too!

Then all the way to India. And amazingly it arrived in just a week!

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Rhythm and cake...

 Every Inchie Monday #37: Rhythm

What better way to show rhythm than by dancing?

Drawn with micron005 and then I let my watercolor pencils dance all over it...

If my skin was darker I'd totally have this color hair!

Two by Two by Tuesday: Cake

Mouthwatering layered cake...

In fact I got such cravings for cake that I asked my daughter to bake one. When sugar is involved she only ever has to be asked once!

So by the time I finished this little twinchie the whole house was smelling of delicious cake!

This is why I have kids! lol!

The next birthday in our household will be my daughters 10th, so since she's such a sweetheart, baking for her mom and all, I topped the cake with a 10...

Inside my journal...

 

Layering things to get enough room for notes about the pictures and some notes about what we did the past couple of weeks...

The pocket letter on the right was a blue/green themed one I sent off to Monique in Germany...

 Monique is also a tangler, so I tangled her an ATC for the middle pocket...

There's also some die-cuts, ribbon, a bag of bling and brads, buttons, tea, washi samples, sticky notes and a little crochet pattern as she likes to crochet.

More zentangle on the envelope in the form of Hollibaugh...

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Loving pocket letters!

Every Inchie Monday #36: Ear

No one said it had to be a human ear!

I find human ears kinda nasty, so here's a sweet, soft, lovely, big kitty ear <3

Two by Two by Tuesday: Treasure
A good old treasure chest!

I colored it with watercolor pencils and used some glittery gelly pens for the gold and pearls.

After water...

 

Before water...

 Sometimes I skip the water part of these watercolor pencils (not because I'm a chicken and scared I'll ruin it and have to start all over! Really!) but just look at the difference!

Swapping Pocket Letters...

This pocket letter is themed 'All about me'...

1. My country with a letter. 2. I love washi with washi samples. 3. A recipe for my favorite apple pie and a tea bag. 4. My favorite tv-show with pretty buttons. 5. My favorite color with sticky notes. 6 My favorite animal with cat washi, cat stickers and cat sticky notes. 7. I love to read. Book recommendations and book pages from an old Danish book to use in crafting. 8. Tangled ATC. 9. Tiny bag of my favorite candy!

All wrapped up and ready to go into...

...a pretty envelope and off to Gini in the UK.

Another pocket letter!

This one was to have only washi tape as goodies!

For the backside I printed out qoutes. This way it will still look pretty when all the washi samples have been taken out in case my swap partner likes to keep her pocket letters in a binder.

A pocket letter has to contain a letter! Decorated with lots of washi to go with the theme...

All wrapped up!

Into the envie and off to Sylvia in Illinois...

I really love making the envelopes even though they will probably get tossed in the trash. But hopefully she will have a moment of joy when finding it in the mailbox...

I love receiving pretty mail and always save it!

This envelope contains washi samples and a card that I forgot to take a picture of and don't remember at all what look like!

Hey, I just turned 40, I'm allowed to be forgetful!!

Whatever it was, Karen loved it so all is well... And she is saving the envie, yay!

Swapping a tea cup ATC. This was the second ATC I have ever made...

I have sent out another 4 swaps this week, so I am keeping busy! lol!

The last creative piece I want to show you is a card I made for a colleague whom I will have shared my employment with for exactly 10 years tomorrow!

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Still trying to stick with the whimsy challenge of being creative every day in 2015!

Inchies and twinchies...

Every Inchie Monday

Catching up on my inchies!

Also catching up with....

Two By Two By Tuesday

I had fallen behind and missed the deadline on this challenge, but here we go...

Last week's prompt was grass and I decided to go the doodle way.

For China I decided on a little teacup.

Inside my journal

Wrapping paper from one of my birthday gifts turned into backing paper...

Layered tiles with room for writing notes about the week.

Pocket Letters are taking up my crafting time lately so the tangling is at a minimum... This is 3 weeks combined!

The zentangle tile is made on a tile that was sent to me in a zentangle swap. She drew a sting on it.

Great idea, I love it!

Tea cup and cat ATC made for swaps, but I made an extra for keeps!

It's not all that bad to combine some weeks. My journal is really getting fat! So every combined page means I can tear out a page and slim it down a little.

Next year I will probably make 2 journals so I can tear out half the pages and maybe it will get less bulky...

Swap book

What to do with the stuff I receive in swaps?

I saw on a swab-bot profile, can't remember who's, a book made out of incoming swaps. She only showed the cover, so I don't know how she did it.

But this is how I am doing it...

My very first swap! The tanned ATC is my outgoing. Below is my incoming.

The card can be opened and lifted to show the envelope below.

I really do not have the heart to just trow out pretty envelopes!

They make for a perfect background. Here I also added a picture of the envelope I sent out and a picture of the items I received as they were too many and too large to fit.

Washi sample swap so I added a little piece of the lovely washis I was sent.

Beautiful card and envie!

See how pretty my swap partner doodled the envie! and she made me an owl card in my favorite color! I love owls!
And funny, I also made an owl card for my outgoing swap, this time in Canada. I made a purple card as that was my receivers favorite color.

This book will be so fun to look through when it is finished!

Zentangle swap

 

Swapping a zentangle tile!

I drew a string on a tile and added it for extra.

My swap partner loved celestial images so I drew a sun for the card.

And the envie...

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To the wall...

Oh my! It is really rough getting back into the daily routine!

After almost 4 weeks vacation I seem to have forgotten just how little time is left when the kids are in bed and the daily chores are dealt with...

8 weeks till fall vacation!!!! I'm starting a countdown...

Every Inchie Monday #32: Wall

Pocket Letters

Have you ever heard of pocket letters? I hadn't until just recently when I joined swap-bot! They were invented by Jeanette Lane. Check out her site here.

I made my very first pocket letter and sent it off to my swap partner in the US. There was no theme picked out for this one so I just found some pretty paper and decided on owls as I love to draw owls!

The back of the pockets holds crafty goodies like washi tape and ribbon samples, paper clips, buttons, stickers and sticky notes etc. I put a teabag in one pocket and a little bag of candy in another.

And of course one pocket holds a letter...

Finish of with wrapping...

And a decorated envelope...

I really enjoyed making this and have since made another that I am about to send off. I can't wait for one to arrive here!

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