Paw Prints

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These arrived Thursday, 20030918.

As this trade was in honor of Paul’s birthday, i’ve pulled out his two:
America 11 5/8 (9/2003) : Paul Amato
America 8 3/8 : Paul Amato

And here are the rest in the trade:

Chinese Watercolor 2/6 (8/28/03): Ziggy Cyanide
#964 : Cynthia Sillitoe
“Rough and smooth…” : Leanne Harrison
Timeless Land (8/03): R. Donnelly
Meager, Huge (8/03): Drumturtle
Size 6 (2 of 2) (3/2003) : HeyMaggie
Very Victorian 3/15 : Candy Phillips
Floral Explosion 2/8, 3rd edition (July 2003) : Lene Piasecki
“How much better…(Fecundus)” 1/2 (7/03) : Cindy Dacko

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When i first signed up at ATC-hub, HeyMaggie shared her paper weaves with the group. I had just experimented with my first photo weaves so i shared back. Eventually, we actually shared — i sent a cat weave for her feline art call and she sent me nine of her weaves in return.

How generous! I am amazed by how prolific many of the folks on the ATC-hub must be as i realize how many cards it takes to do some of these 9/9 trades.

HeyMaggies’s cards arrived last Friday, just before a very stressful week for me. Her handmade envelope of grey and black checks, with stamps and stickers and a fun assortment of us stamps was great fun to receive. The nine paper weaves all were full of energy — energy giving — as well as a fun spin art CD. I had a hard time picking out one to feature. I really like the one in the middle of the top row, but this orange one stands out for me in a different way. Words like pure and clean don’t capture the emotional impact i get from the card, but they’ll have to do. Maybe it’s the complementary colors , maybe it’s the triple circle.

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Candy Phillips ATCs
Top, left to right: “Pug Under the Autumn Moon” 4/7 ; “Inside Looking Out” 5/13 ; “Pug Magic – I” 12/17
Bottom, left to right: “What can you See?” 6/9 ; “Proud Pug” 2/9

Candy’s included some wonderful dimensional elements in “…Autumn Moon” and the fence in “Pug Magic – I.” I’m blown away by the color application in the rooster stamp. The matting/framing is done so neatly on all of these — i’m challenged to get neater with my cards! I’m fascinated by the image production in the bottom two — I think they’re both produced with a transparency, but i’m not sure. Lovely, all!

I believe these are for a trade I’ve signed up for with a September 30th deadline. Oh my!

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A cool surprise in the mail tonight!

One of Steve‘s own “Evil Clown Series #2/7″ (JUL 30 2003) and four Really Red ATC from a swap that apparently originated with Lisa Volrath (whose site is apparently undergoing some sort of server misery).

* junannepeck’s 4 of 5
* Tammy aka Alma‘s 1 of 5 Aug 2003
* Doug Young‘s 6/6 7-30-03
* cb Crane‘s July 2003 (Who lives rather close to me, small world.)