Mother Goose ATC swap - 1st & 2nd place winners!

. . . Well, everyone is a winner, really . . . . as each participant in the Alpha Stamps Mother Goose ATC swap will be receiving a free gift from Leslie at Alpha Stamps when I send your swaps home to you! Also, everyone will be receiving their Mother Goose ATCs in a little hand stamped and painted ATC Folder I have created for you, just because I felt like it! There is a photo of my first mock-up of this folder on my website if you'd like to see. I'll post some photos here eventually, but for now, I will let the actual folders for this swap be a surprise!

But, wasn't there something else, you say??
Wasn't there mention in the swap call of a special first prize for the most creative artwork; a Mother Goose Tote bag printed on 2 sides?? Yes! This was mentioned! And since the deadline for this swap was Saturday, all the swap entries have come in and I have just now gotten all the swaps scanned & uploaded - sorry for my delay! We are finally CLOSING on our new home tomorrow & I have been busy with that instead. Without further ado, I would like to announce the First Prize Winner, She will receive a Mother Goose Tote Bag, perfect for holding books, art projects or whatever ~ donated by Leslie Elledge of Alpha Stamps . . . . . the winner of the First Prize is the person who created this ATC:

SANDY BABB!! of Quill Cottage

I thought Sandy had the most creative and most exceptional Mother Goose fabric ATCs of the whole wonderful bunch. You will be amazed to learn that this was Sandy's first ever swap, and the first ATC's that she ever made, wow! Sandy did do some investigating & learned about ATCs via the internet, and you can read about it here on her blog, Quill Cottage - This is where she also tells us how she created her wonderful folded & pop-up ATCs!

* Congratulations to Miss Sandy! *

I will be sending you your Mother Goose Tote bag from Alpha Stamps with your ATCs that you'll receive in trade, later this week. : ) You'll also receive some collage bits from me!

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Additionally, I thought there was one more set of ATCs that were really different & creative - enough to merit a 2nd place prize winner in this swap. A large goodie bag of collage pieces will be sent to the person who created these beautiful ATCs:

MARY ZIMANY!! : ))

Mary's ATCs are so wonderfully different and beautiful - so creative, I wanted to award her a small prize too. Congratulations, Mary! I will send you your extra special collage pack with your ATCs. I hope to get the swaps in the mail by Thursday or Friday . . . I still need to physically swap them & pack them up, adding the gift from Alpha Stamps. I will keep you posted on my progress, and please wish me luck that all goes according to plan tomorrow at the closing! We have been renting here until now when the owner was ready to close . . . it should go A-OK.

I so enjoyed this swap - you all amazed me at what you did with the Alpha Stamps Mother Goose images, wow! : ) creatively yours, lenna

Mother Goose ATCs - Sandy Babb, AR

WoW! I had a peek at these on Sandy's blog earlier this week, but when they arrived of course, I found them to be even more incredible in person. Sandy Babb from Arkansas has created 6 ATCs that *open up* for our swap; some of them are even pop-ups! These ATCs each have their own decorated holder too. Here are some photos. You can click on any one of them for more detail. Your work is amazing, Sandy. Your use of stitching & pop-ups is so wonderful. Thank you for participating!!

update & a Link!

After sending out an update email to my swap participants, I have gotten quite a few replies that Mother Goose ATCs or Fabric Bags are on their way to CT - yay! It is always so exciting & inspiring when the swaps start rolling in near the deadline. Today I received an email from Sandy Babb explaining that her ATCs were finished and she was sending them off. She told me she had posted photos of them on her blog, if I wanted to take a sneak peak before they arrived. I did!

You can too! Go HERE to her blog. Sandy did some studying about ATCs before she got started and includes in her post some great history & information. Plus, her ATCs are just grand, and she is having a "Give away" in celebration of creating her first ATCs and participating in her first Art swap! You can find out more details and enter if you wish by going to Sandy's Blog, but this is what Sandy wrote to me in her email:
"In conjunction with this swap I am hosting a give away in celebration of my first art swap and ATC's. I will be giving away a children's book themed collage book box filled with goodies and will include one of my quilted pop-up ATC books. If you think your participants would be interested feel free to post about it on your site. To enter all you have to do is to sign up under the post titled: "A Give Away and a Reveal" Sign up will be until October 27, 2007, and a winner will be drawn using a random number generator on October 28, 2007."

I love it! thank you, sandy : ) Lenna