Garden Variety Postcard Swap

The inimitable Lenna Andrews is organizing another fab swap and of course the temptation proved too much for me and before I knew it I had signed up. This swap is run in conjunction with Alpha Stamps and they and Lenna will provide prizes! .

You can find all information on the swap here and once you sign up you will also receive a wonderful PDF file from Lenna giving all the necessary information as well as a great description of how she made her postcards. Of course the requirement is to use images from Alpha Stamps but this is hardly a punishment as they are so fantastic. Specially for this swap there is an entire page dedicated to the theme of the swap: Garden Variety on the Alpha Stamps website.

I was lucky enough to receive some of these beautiful supplies as a member of the Alpha Stamps Design Team. In fact, it was the last time that I received their Design Team kit as sadly I have decided to leave the team after being in it since 2007. My exhibition next year and various other commitments meant there simply was no time left but of course I will continue to order their collage sheets and join swaps on their Alpha Stamps Yahoo Group. I'll upload the samples I made with my last kit in the next few days but here are the 4 postcards I made for Lenna's swap

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I also made 2 ATCs, one as part of the swap and one for Lenna. I used the Alpha Stamps Sunflower as well as Tallulahs' Flowers collage sheets and as you can see could not resist adding some more sparkling transparencies to the ATCs. I promise to give that a rest for some time now!

For the postcards I used two different fabric-paper backgrounds and even the back of the postcards were decorated with a Postcard stamp as well as a rose stamp (both available from Alpha Stamps), as well as a flower postage stamp.

These PCs and ATCs will be winging their way to Lenna before too long and if you want to be in with a chance to get them join the swap!