Dragons and Fairies

More digital papers!  I hope you can use them.  The dragon pic below shows only one of the nine dragons on the sheet.  That sheet (unlike the others) includes a 3 x 3 grid of ATC-sized rectangles, too.  You'll see that when you click over to the scribd site.  Here are yesterday's offerings, in case you missed them.

Credits for pixies:  my daughter is the fairy in the leotard--can you spot her?  Also thanks to brush-designers obsidiandawn and cocacolagirl.
Credits for the dragon drawing go to hawksmont.

Click the link for the high-resolution papers.  What's shown here will not print well.

Purple Fairies

Blue Circles

Dragons on Red

Multi-Colored Circles

Digital Paper

Here are the results of my newest distraction, digital paper.  These are so much fun to design in PhotoShop Elements.  I could spend all day...sadly, I don't have all day!  Feel free to download these and use in your projects.  All I ask is that you please do not sell the papers or claim them as your own.  These are sized 8-1/2 x 11 for ease of printing.  If there is interest, I'll upload more as I have the time.  Enjoy!  Note--click the link to access the high-resolution papers--what is shown here is at a very low (poor quality) resolution.

Butterflies

Green Circles

jungle leaves

gold swirls

More May Swaps

The theme for the following two ATCs was "French-Inspired".
The floral background is digital scrapbooking paper that I finally learned how to make myself.  This deserves a post of its own.  I've been spending a lot of time lately on PhotoShop Elements.

The postage on this ATC is a copy of a French Valentine's Day stamp.  Apparently France celebrates the holiday by issuing heart-themed postage--how sweet!

 Same swap, slightly different elements.  The title and tabbed Eiffel tower are from a French kids' activity book.

This swap is titled "Text Me!".  The theme was open, as long as text was used somewhere on the card.  Not a problem!  The background did not scan well at all.  It is actually a scrap of lovely foil wrapping paper with a rose motif.

To add a bit more interest, I cut out two copies of the stamped butterfly and used a tiny bit of foam to slightly raise the upper wings. 

 ...and here are just a couple of the PCs I've received recently from PostCrossing.

This one is from the Netherlands.

Netherlands Postage

Happy baby PC from a Russian postcrosser.

Looks like Red Square on the upper stamps, but I don't know what the buildings on the lower stamp are.

If you do, please leave a comment!

Turtle ATCs

No end to the swaps.  Actually, I took a few weeks off from swapping to allow time to get other matters under control.

Here the background is a paint-chip thingy (what are those called?) that I lifted from the hardware store.  The turtle's shell is made from marbled paper that I was given ages and ages ago by a stamping friend who was big into hand-marbling paper for a while.  She made some beautiful papers.  Many of the ones she gave me were used as endpapers for sketchbooks, but I could never throw away the scraps. 

This little sea turtle is one reason why.