the artful bag challenge atc swap

Hello everyone! I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend. Did you have beautiful Spring weather? We had clouds, a cold breeze and a few showers here and there. Very unusual for this time of the year when we normally start to hit the 80's by now. But I'm so much more fond of cool weather and this is just fine with me.

It's time to share all the beautiful ATCs we sent and recieved. Hopefully everyone got one from their partners by now and if you haven't you can always add another post later. My wonderful swap partner, Ana, is from Brazil and she let me know that the mail there can take even longer so I know her card is on it's way.

But I can share the one I sent to her (hopefully she got it already) and right below is a Linky so you can link up your ATC post. You can also add your own ATC card to the Artful Bag Challenge group pool on Flickr. The link is at the top of the page on the right. If you haven't joined yet all you have to do is follow the steps to join up on the Flickr page and I'll add you on.



This is the ATC I made for Ana. I called it Alice's Big Bag. I used an image from my Halloween in Wonderland papers from Graphic45, colored it with pencils, pastels and ink. Then added different cut outs to embellish.

I hope you enjoyed our first Artful Bag ATC swap. Next month we start again with our first theme, Playing With Paper. I'm already looking forward to making a new paper purse and seeing what lovely ideas you come up with. Thank you to everyone who joined the swap this month.



18 comments:

Selma said...

Thank you very much ANNA for hostin this atc swap. Yor card is really beautiful.

Healing Woman said...

She is adorable! Lucky, lucky recipient.

Ana Cristina Caldatto said...
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Ana Cristina Caldatto said...

Anna Anna
Obrigado para essa troca maravilhosa!

amei amei amei ATC Alice's Big Bag que esta me enviando,
Atc Alice's Big Bag ficou espetacular amo Tema Alice, voce caprichou em cada detalhe,
uma Honra seu ATC em minha coleção!

estou na expectativa que voce receba a meu ATC em breve!
grande abraço
uma excelente semana...para todas participantes da Troca ATC!
Ana for Brazil
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Anna Anna
Thank you for this wonderful exchange!

I loved loved loved ATC Alice's Big Bag sending me this,
Atc Alice's Big Bag Love Theme Alice was spectacular, you caprichou in every detail,
an Honor your ATC in my collection!

I'm hoping that you get to my ATC soon!

big hug
an excellent week for all participants in exchange
Ana for Brazil

Fran. said...

Hi Anna I posted my ATC Swap with Wendy. I kinda messed up on the linky thing but it still gets you to my blog! I am really loving this Artful Bag Challenge and having alot of fun too!! Thanks for hosting it!! Love, XO Fran.

peggy gatto said...

I had a little purse that begged to be used for this swap!!!
Sending it off tomorrow to patricia!
hope she likes the idea!!

Unknown said...

Love your little girl! I am new to your blog via All My Art blog....Love, love, love your blog. Visit me sometimes over at The Cranky Queen. Tiff

CuddlyBunny said...

Anna, your ATC is sweet and fun! I love her *big* bag!

Thank you for hosting this swap, my first ever! I received a gorgeous ATC, had fun creating my own and can't wait for the next exchange!

Ana Cristina Caldatto said...

não consigo acessar link 3 e link 6

I can not access link 3 and link 6

Petunia said...

Sorry ladies....I had to move some of the links around. I was trying to fix a few and did something strange to the others. They are all working now...just different order :)

Angela said...

Ana,
Your ATC is great! I'm looking forward to visiting the other participant's blogs to see the rest!
Angela

Cameron said...

She's going to love it! So fun giving Alice a wonderful hat and bag!

pchickki said...

This is the cutest ATC I have seen in awhile.
Very unique and very well done my friend :)

Jill said...

sorry, I made a mistake on my link, and can't figure out how to fix it. lovely ATC Anna!

Jill said...

sorry again! 12 is the correct one, 11 is not=)

Theresa MacNaughton said...

I just LOVE that ATC. Alice is so inspiring - great work!!! Theresa

Electra said...

I'm so late, sorry! Everyone's ATC's are so wonderful!!

Patricia's Paper Crafts said...

Great ATC beautiful handbag.