ATC Mail Swap May 2008: Underwear!

[PamPie]

I cannot help it - Kim's suggestion of underwear cracked me up, so I just had to select it! Whether you call them skivvies, tighty-whities, panties, briefs, thongs, undies, jockeys, bikinis, boxers, unmentionables, granny-pants, intimates, knickers, Reg Grundys, drawers, y-fronts, longjohns or any other slang terms - I know you can have loads of fun with this one!

If you want to play this month, send me an email (pkeflin@hotmail.com)with the subject: MAY ATC SWAP. Please include your name, mailing address and email address (for you veterans, just reply to this thread saying you're participating...I have your info...unless it's changed). You have until midnight Eastern on MAY 7th to sign up. On the 8th everyone who has registered will receive a list of all the other artists with whom they will be trading. You will then have until MAY 31st (um, or later!) to create, print, and mail your artist trading cards to the other participants. (Keep postal rates in mind before you sign up as you are responsible for mailing the cards yourself. If we have enough participants in a particular country, we can group them together, otherwise it will be an international endeavor.) Each swap group will have no more than...um...we don't know the upper limit yet! LOL! We like big groups and have been hovering around 8-10 participants each month. You may create one ATC based on the theme and replicate it for everyone or you may create unique ATCs to send out. You may also use any combination of paper and digital you like for this swap.
If anyone has any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. We do have a lot of information about Artist Trading Cards (http://www.digitalartquirks.com/articles/article_atc_becky_march2006.htm) in an ARTicle in our Resource section that might answer any questions you have.
Looking forward to another swap with you all!! Okay, who's in?

Participants~
Nevermore
ruthpics
PamPie
mizamigo
Pixeldigger
dee-dee
YorkshireLass
graybonnie
persnicketychick
gonewiththewind
ScrapAlice

[Nevermore]

I know I am two months behind (officially one month since I never signed up for April) but I am good for it. I will not wait until the end of May to mail all of them; I hope to have March and April done this weekend. But I will be on time for May. Promise.

[ruthpics]

HA HA! I am in!

I am also late with my April card...sorry quirksters ;)

[mizamigo]

I can't imagine what my muse will make me do for this ATC (I'm sure it will remain "unmentionable"); but I'm in!

[Pixeldigger]

count me in!

[DeniseD]

Ok, who picked this topic?!?! :p Sign me up, lol.

[Yorkshire Lass]

OK I'm in.

[PamPie]

Hey, look - someone new! Glad to have you, Ann :cool:
I received your email with your address - thanks...

[graybonnie]

Just have to do this! The work I do to pay the bills should be easing up very very soon....yeah...and then I can get all caught up!

[persnicketychick]

Okay I'm a little busy right now adjusting to my new role as an Altered Cheery-O (@Oscraps) but I welcome a good challenge and I LOVE ATC's so I am definitely in! Gonna email you with my info right now! THANKS!

[mizamigo]

Ok, who picked this topic?!?! :p Sign me up, lol.

Quoth the Raven, Nevermore!!!!! (aka Kim)

[gonewiththewind]

I'd love to join in. This is only my second ATC swap ever, and certainly my first quirk-style. Sign me up . . .

[PamPie]

Lovin' the response I'm seeing to this swap - you newbies will have fun - just remember that's all this is, is fun! On Thursday, I'll be sending out the mailing lists, so if you haven't already, either email or PM me with the info and I'll add you in!

[ScrapAlice]

As I'm getting back to business here, I'd like to get back to swapping. Still playing catch-up (catsup? ketchup?), so they will be there. I hope you will think good things come in small packages. *grin*

[PamPie]

I prefer mustard - LOL! Hey there, Alice - always good to see you. I'll add you to the list!

[PamPie]

I'm still waiting on one more mailing address (persnickitychick's) - as soon as I hear from her, I'll send out the mailing lists - but don't think you have to wait to create your art! Enjoy the theme!

[Yorkshire Lass]

Yipee .... my first attempt at an ATC has been completed and gone out to you all today. Hope you like the card but don't mention the reverse which I know is 'not quite right'. I'll own up, I've never been good at cut and paste, so the result is some cards are wonky, others tacky, and I narrowly escaped sticking my fingers together three times yesterday afternoon. So don't mention the reverse.

[PamPie]

This echoes so much like Nevermore's first time in the ATC pool!

[gonewiththewind]

Ooooh, got my first card from pixeldigger . . . FABULOUS!

My DH and I had a VERY good laugh. Thanks for brightening my day . . . what a treasure!

[PamPie]

Thank you Judy - terrific take!

[Nevermore]

I must tell you that my first ATC started my blogging career such as it is. I wrote pages and pages and pages on my poor ATC. To this day there is a little clunk in the back of my brain that signals "girding my loins" whenever I start one. I do think I have improved and no doubt you will too. There are tips for nearly everything (my favourite cutting tip is from Ruth who advised me that it would go so much better if I held my knife right side up). Don't be afraid to ask if there is anything in particular that is making you nuts. To this day I am miserable about adhesives and I believe that Mod Podge is the work of the devil.

[mizamigo]

Judith, Your ATC arrived with envelope intact!! Thanks for the laugh.

[PamPie]

Judith, Your ATC arrived with envelope intact!! Thanks for the laugh.
Oh yes, Judy - I meant to mention that the tape on the envie did the trick - mine arrived sealed too!

[PamPie]

I have new underwear! Yup, a card arrived at my home today - persnickitychick, I love it! Glad you could join us this month :)

[DeniseD]

Judy - Such a fun take on the challenge. :)

Ann - ROFL, how cheeky! Thanks for swapping ladies.

[mizamigo]

Miss Persnickety Chick - I love that bird out of the cage!!! and Miss Yorkshire Lass - I love your take on the ATC, too. WOW! What a fabulous collection this month.

Now if only I could think of something to create!!!!!

[PamPie]

Now I see why Denise said 'how cheeky' - Ann, you did a super job - thanks for the card!

[Nevermore]

Thanks ladies-- gave me a nice chuckle!

[Nevermore]

I must have accidentally deleted the mailing list for May. Could you please resend it to me? I need to get my cards out :)

[DeniseD]

Amber - Love the mix of items. Thanks for swapping! :)

[PamPie]

Denise! Pretty pretty - thank you :)

I mailed cards today, so another pair will soon be in your mix!

[mizamigo]

Denise, your beautiful ATC arrived in Florida today. Thank you!!!!

I've printed my ATCs, now to assemble and send out in the next few days.

[Yorkshire Lass]

Oooh Denise what a lovely piece of work. Thanks for sharing.

[mizamigo]

did you hear my guffaw all the way from Florida?????

I love your combination ATC!!!!!

[Yorkshire Lass]

Pam and Ruth

Received your wonderfully funny May ATC today. Brilliant.

[Yorkshire Lass]

Mrs Persnicketychick, your ATC is so pretty. Thank you.

[DeniseD]

Ruth & Pam - Too funny! What a fabulous collaboration!! ;)

[PamPie]

Victoria, Ann and Denise ~ we are so pleased to know you are amused! Probably not 1/2 us much as we were while creating it though - we giggled almost the entire afternoon, and some the next day as well!! All in all, it has been a very entertaining praw-ject ;)

[ruthpics]

We did have fun! I still chuckle about it! LOL So glad you all like it!

I have received some lovely underwear!
Thank you Denise, Ann, Persnickety and Judith for the quirky, clever and beautiful cards!

[DeniseD]

Victoria - Thanks so much for the card, lol. A great reminder. :)

[persnicketychick]

Hey guys! Sorry I'm late! Just now discovered there was a "Thank You" thread here and wanted to send my gratitude your way, as well. This has been so much fun and a learning experience for me as well. Hope to make next month's even better! Disclaimer-still getting to know everyone so not sure on everyone's actual names . . . With that said Thanks to pixeldigger for the pair of bloomers, Pam and Ruth for the witty pear (pair), Denise for the gorgeous collage of things, Ann for the Vintage beauties, mizamigo for the good advice-teehee! :p

[PamPie]

Victoria, this may sound a little odd, but I'm enjoying your underwear! LOL - yes, I received your card today, and I like it! Thank you :)

[ruthpics]

Victoria...good advice! Fun card! Thank you!

[gonewiththewind]

I am running behind . . . but I haven't forgotten . . .

I've really enjoyed the cards I've received!

[Nevermore]

ruthpics and pampie, your card is definitely unique. Why do I envision you two giggling like crazy?

Denise, pink peonies and lace. Zowie!

Judith, I howled.

Amber, I have no idea how you got that finnish (not the gold gel but the clear streaked). Marvellous!

Victoria: good maternal advice! I shall pin it to Max's bulletin board!

Ann, wow! laughing at this too (is it an English thing?)

[Nevermore]

I was finished my cards.

I decided I need to do some sewing this month. The last time was under Ruth's wing. Not a bad thing because I don't sew. First thing I had to do was score a sewing machine. My mother was THRILLED to give me hers (it does straight stitch. Period.) and then quite puzzled when I told her what I needed it for, lol.

So, a couple of weeks to get the machine. Then a week or so to get thread. A couple of weeks to do the card. Printed it out and loved the paper I used. A couple more weeks to gird my loins to approach the sewing machine.

Did it this morning at 5:00. It took quite a while to thread the needle (I wear trifocals and no focal distance was working. I tried setting up a magnifying mirror etcetera but that didn't work either. If I held the thread near the end, my fingers caused shadows and I couldn't see and if I held them too far away, the thread would "bend" and not go through the hole. Like I said, it took quite a while to thread the needle. And, lo and behold, lo and behold, I whipped through the sewing! It was fun!

Put it all away (machine weighs just a little bit more than my car but wrestled it off my desk). Sat down and started writing out the envelopes. I have nine cards. There are eleven people swapping. Even if I throw my card into the pot, one card short.

Determined to do it, though. I start packing today so who knows if I will even be able to find the sewing machine in a couple of days?

Hopefully, they will start landing in mailboxes near you very shortly.

[PamPie]

This is like getting a movie on DVD - you can watch the movie and enjoy it, but it's not until you watch all the extra features that you really appreciate all that went into the filming!

[mizamigo]

Only you, Kim, can describe threading a sewing machine in such a descriptive way. I felt like I was there.

Next time you try to thread the machine, put a piece of white paper (index card) behind the needle so you can see the needle hole a bit better.

Can't wait to see the ATC and that stitching.

[mizamigo]

Your ATC arrived today with that great stitching. You did a fantastic job with the stitches. Oh yes, and I love the ATC - both the front and the back. Totally Raven!!!!

[Yorkshire Lass]

Well Kim all those problems threading the needle were certainly worth it, your card is wonderful. Thanks for swapping.

[persnicketychick]

oooo . . . stitching? With an actual sewing machine? I'm so excited now! Can't wait!

BTW- Finished my June Swap cards this morning, got some "finishing" touches to put on them but should have them in the mail by the end of the week.

[Nevermore]

Persnicketychick, I am worried that you didn't get my card-- I mailed them all at the same time. Please let me know if it comes soon. If it has gone astray, I promise I will do you another one but not for about 6 weeks (so sorry! moving in less than two weeks and then off to the cottage for two weeks).

[PamPie]

Kim!

Might be white, might be blue....
LOL - your card made me laugh outloud!
Thanks - especially for the extra effort in stitching :)

[persnicketychick]

Kim- Got it that same day I posted. My DH had brought the mail in and it was buried under some junk mail-thank goodness I discovered it! Love all the details!

[Pixeldigger]

Got it! Thanks, Kim

[ruthpics]

Kim...I see Raven's underpants! Love your card...and the stitching, well, that is something! Good job!

[mizamigo]

Bonnie,
I love your undergarment! Thanks so much.

[PamPie]

Bonnie, aren't you clever - fun shapewear ;)

[DeniseD]

Bonnie, thanks so much for your cool ATC! :)

[Yorkshire Lass]

I received your beautiful May swap today Bonnie. Thank you, it's lovely and so original.

[DeniseD]

Kim! I found your card, thanks so much & very cool stitching. :)

(It got tucked into a pile by accident, whoops!)

[graybonnie]

Ladies you have provided me with many many laughs! Thanks for the inspiration and sorry about the delayed thanks....

DeeDee...Love the 1920's feel and the suggestive undertone.

Amber...fantastic mixed medium creation!

Judy....I'm not sure what made me laugh more...turning your card over to find the red bloomers or the little crab!

Pam & Ruth...girls you DO good art! Love the quirky "pear" idea.

Kim...what a cool creation...you out did yourself with the stitching - how long did that take or was Max recuirted to run the sewing maching...love it!

Victoria...Not sure if my mother if quoted this saying but my grandmother did for sure...what a quirkroo!

Ann...I wish you could have heard me roar when I opened your plain blue envelop...you winner the prize in my estimation!

[ruthpics]

Bonnie...LOVE your underwear! Clever! Thank you!!!

[Nevermore]

Wowser, just love the shaped card! That is too cool for school! Thanks so much, will love putting this in my album.