Friendship Garden Tag swapped with Tolegranny

I am so bad at getting things put up on the blog....but I must and will do better...that is a promise to me...

Here is a tag swap I did with Tolegranny....we just decided we needed to do this for each other...so mine was on the Friendship Garden .  I had fun doing it.  My muse has a mind of her own though I have to say.  I started out to do a steampunk tag and look where she took it....do you see any steampunk? I think not!!! Who is the boss here...me thinkith it is my Ms Muse.

I was in an ATC swap celebrating the Calgary Stampede so our theme was Cowboys and Cowgirls....below are some of the ones I did...The black cowboy is John Ware first back cowboy and well loved by many people.

Sorry for the glare on Annie's picture...I added acetate and then forgot when I took the picture.

These little quick works of art are a lot of fun to do.....

ATCs Cowboys and Cowgirls

ATCs

I could never use a mouse trap to catch a little mouse. How cruel is that?...so when I heard that a swap was being done and they were altering mouse traps to keep little notes on the fridge, I jumped on board.  What fun this was...giggled and giggle I had so much fun doing them.... The birdie one is for my fridge and the other two have gone on to new homes.  I put magnets on the back so they stay nice and firm on the fridge.  I think I will go and do another one but in steampunk this time....oh boy I'm hooked.....

Below are some of the 17 atcs I did for my local scrapbooking shop.  We were having a swap and the theme was Things That Fly.  It was great fun to do. I love doing atcs.

I have a small studio and I am always needing space.  I wish this was my idea but I have seen it floating around for a while now and it sure hit the nail on the head for organizing.  I took the old extra dvd cases we had left over from when my hubby and I have our movie business.  They are thicker than the newer slim cases.  I pulled out the back plastic part that sits inside and holds the dvd in place.  then I put in (on their mylar backing) my cling free stamps.  Now if the set is too big I just cut it in half and put the front showing the stamp and under that I put a cut piece of white paper and under that I put the other half with the stamps facing out the back of the case...so you can turn it over from front to back and see what's in there....I also mounted my rubber stamps the same way.  The mounted stamps I put in the same colour plastic boxes so whenever I see the blue plastic flat boxes (fromMichaels) on the shelf right away I know it is stamps...of course I labelled them anyway...(I like labelling).  All my non word stamps went in one case and the word stamps went in the other case.  My seasonals stamps are all kept together in another case....the dvd cases will fit nicely in a file drawer, shoe box type of case etc. and certainly saves space and time when looking for stamps.