I do believe I just received my last one. It is from Mathieu, thank you.
I'll put them all together and get them posted as soon as I can.
I believe some of mine are still winging their way to people, sorry it wasn't in time for Halloween I'll know for the next time that I will need at least two weeks before the holiday.

Thank you I got my card as well and was really loving the look of the cats eyes, it looks like you have drawn on both sides, very nice. Where did you find the drawing ?It has been so nice to get everyones card they are all great and very different. This has been a lot of fun. I hope that there will be a card exchange for christmas.
Gretchen

Hello everybody !

I've received my last card yesterday, but I have a big internet connection problem and won't be able to post any picture before it's restoration...

Sorry

Hi Gretchen,
I got my photo from the morgue files, if you look here on my blog you can link to the photo and person who took it. (just click on the blue word photo).
Anyone else who wants to see the original photo that I worked from will find it documented on my blog.
Life got crazy over the weekend, my pictures will come soon.

Thanks Paulette
I had alook at the file, and book marked it, I also like your blog, and my question is have become that women??/

Hi Gretchen,
Thank you. Ha, ha, I do believe this will be an on going project! I sure am having fun working towards it.

Ernest will be running the next trade .. so he has the details .. but yes this is fun and I love the small art

Okay I have found time to give this the proper time it needs.
First thank you all for your hard work and creativity! This is the most amazing set of cards!
Here they are in alphabetical order.




















I hope I have conveyed to you all how much I love my cards!

[attachmentid=7823] This is the scrapbook I plan to keep them in.

Just wanted to add that I posted them as a group on my blog if anyone is interested to see them together.

Hi Paulette,

Thanks for your comment

You're right, there is a little story about this drawing : in fact, this is a reproduction of a little statue I own :
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I've got plenty of these at home, I just love them. In French, I call them "Lutin", but I'm not sur of the exact translation in the English/American folklore...

Seeing Wikipedia, I think I've been mistaken... Goblin or Leprechaun would be better

Mathieu

Mathieu I got your card today. Thanks so much. It is so cute.

Surgery is reset at 1:00pm tomorrow. But I had to redo my labs about an hour ago, so hopefully those will be ok.

Paulette, that is a fantastic idea, a scrapbook! What a great way to keep all these treasures together.

Thanks so much for all the work to put this display together -- it's wonderful!

Mathieu,
I thought it might be something like that. You did a fine job drawing him.
Jangra,
Good luck with the surgery!
Ernest,
I'll warn you the scrapbook idea has more to it than I thought. With photos you just tape them down. With these cards, you've got stuff written on the back that you want to preserve. I've decided to put each one in a little bag. It won't look quite as nice but it will keep the card safe.
I bought the scrapbook as a kit at the dollar store. It was just the right size, about 4"x4", one page for each card and it has decorations!

Yes good luck on the surgery .

Paulette i love the way you put those out .. very creative

Well I got the last two cards in yesterday's mail and this is the first time I've had to get them all scanned together. So here is the way I received them:

Jeanne's arrived first : it is fabulously rich in colour & I really appreciate the bare tree because here in
the sub tropics we seldom have any trees lose their leaves completely.

Then Amanda's (shoulders) : and it was one of the leaves off Jeanne's tree ! No it is a beautiful
autumn leaf.

Miranda (meow) was next : and my Mum was in the car after I had picked up the mail on the way
and your skull had Mum wondering what kind of people I was drawing with (we don't celebrate Halloween over here)

On the same day Ernest's card was there too : when I opened your skull Ernest she had had the
Halloween explanation for the swap and she looked at your's saying "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well Horatio......"

Gretchen's (Frithy) followed : Thanks for the Pumpkin seller. I can just imagine the pumpkin soup I could make with those babies.........mmmmm...........and we also have roadside sellers like that .

The next was a great patchwork from Kim : the amount of work in that is amazing - don't know that
I could anywhere near that much detail into an ATC.

Thankyou Mathieu : are you an illustrator - the detail in this happy little gardening mushroom is
wonderful. I love him - I can think of him down the bottom of my garden with the faeries.

I was blown away by Paulette's : I have had a lot of people talk about drafting film but this was the
first time I had seen it used. And the more I look at this pic of the moon the more subtle colour I see - I don't know how long it took to get those variations on the blue & grey (& I think a bit of pearly pink?) but it was worth all the time.

And yesterday Travis' (thunderbird) arrived : and thankyou for giving small children nightmares -
although Mickey doesn't look too scary this time.

And last but not least by any means was Venus' : thank you for all the elements in this night sky -
I love owls and even have a Fitz & Floyd Owl tea set (I have pics of the teapot below in case you were interested)


Thank you all for the time, thought and effort that went into every single one. Sometimes I think it is the hardest thing to come up with original ideas and you folk are a real think tank - all the ideas are brilliant and so well transfered to paper.


Sue



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I am glad you liked it Sue!
I know in the white I used a bit of light brown and since I was going for a blue/black I probably used some orange in the dark areas.

Thanks for the info Paulette - I just had to let folk know how much detail was actually in it - those subtle colours just don't show on any scan, let alone when the scan takes in another 4 cards.

Hey, Ernest don't forget to let us know when you're going to post the next one!

Sue

My plan had been to start the next one as soon as I received all ten of my cards. As of now I'm still waiting for Mathieu's. I will give it another day or two...

I love your cards Sue .. very cool

Cant wait for the next one to start !

Hi all I'm going show the 8 cards i have .
Cause i'm think two of my cards got lost in the mail.

Any way here are cards i got.

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the cats eyes are from Jeanne . I love them thank you Jeanne

the vampire is from Ernest I have always love vampires thank you Ernest

the two pumpkins are from Kim and Venus . nothing say's Halloween more then pumpkins thank you Kim and Venus

the black cat is from Sue . got love black cats thak you Sue

the snoopy is from Travis . I remmber watching the peanuts as kid on Halloween. thank you Travis

the whitch is from Mathieu every Halloween need a flying whitch thank you Mathieu

the Green Man is from Paulette i just love it thank you paulette


I hope all the card I sent out made save to new homes


I too can't wait till next card trade . I love making cards for everyone and see what cards I get in return

Well, I think I am still waiting on one more card from Mathieu but other than that I have recieved all of them. I will like Ernest give it another couple of days and then post mine. With the holidays fastly approaching I am sure the mail is starting to get slow again as I have noticed its been slow here in Michigan for the past month for some reason. I just don't want yall to think I have forgotten..LOL.

I thought you would all like to know how Jeanne is.

The surgery went ahead on tuesday and according to her sister-in-law she came out of it OK and on wednesday she was up for a walk - twice !!

She is due to go home on friday - so I am sure that she will be back to say hi to everyone as soon as she is able.


Sue

I am so glad Jeanne's surgery went ok and she is doing wonderfully it sounds!! Thanks Bigs for the update.

Ok I have decided to go ahead and post all of my ATC's and will do a special post when I recieve my card from Mathieu.

Ok in order they go like this:

1. "Happy Autumn" by Gretchen
2. "Moonlight" by Jeanne
3. "P.M.S." by Kim
4. "Piglet Vampire" by Travis
5. "Bat" by Sue
6. "Witch Legs" by Amanda
7. "Harvest Apples" by Ernest
8. "Fall Leaves" by Paulette
9. "Fall Leaf" by Miranda

All of my cards are beautiful. I really enjoy getting and giving them and look forward to many more. Thanks Everyone!! ( Ohh and they scanned in order by viewers screen right to left..LOL)

I haven't recieved all of my card either, I got a fabulous one from Mat , it was done in pencil and of a squirrel eating an acorn, he was sitting amongst maple leaves , which is on the Canadian flag,how cool is that. I hope that I can be included in the next exchange, I will start to do some cards the minuet that you say go! What a great idea

By now it seems all should have their cards ....wonder what the hold up is .....whats the ones that are missing maybe they can say if it has been sent or not .

The only on that I am still missing is from Amanda. It willl come soon I am sure.
Gretchen

Gretchin,
Sorry yours got sent back to me I will remail it on monday. Sorry for the delay.


Here are the ones I did: Well most of them anyway
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Ok Shoulders I will look excitedly forward to your card

Gretchen

Thank you bigs... on the update of Jeanne...so pleased everything went ok for her... look forward to seeing her back in the forum.

I am wondering if everybody has received their cards?

Well, I'm still waiting for one card from Mathieu, but I'm going to share the ones I did receive. My parents were just here visiting me last week and they loved looking at these, and the other set from the summer.
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Left to right, top to bottom, we have:

Ghostly Door, from Paulette. The scan doesn't really show what it looks like. It's on drafting film so you can hold it up to the light like a slide! This inspired me to buy some film of my own. It's cool stuff. Thanks, Paulette!

Rest for the Wicked, by Kim. I love this incredibly cute, fun and sexy card. It's amazing how much is going on in this small space!

Pumpkin #1, from Jeanne. This is a nice mixed-media piece with beautiful colors.

Rest in Peace, from Venus. Beautiful and dramatic, with gorgeous details.

Untitled, by Amanda. It is tie-dye? Is it candy corn? What a fun visual pun!

Witchy-Poo, by Sue. Deep, dark black with watercolor pencils. Lots of detail in this tiny silhouette.

All Seeing Eye, by Miranda. I would be scared except we ate a whole bag of chocolate ones like this around Halloween

Ol' Frank, by Travis. Frankenstein's monster never looked so happy!

Untitled by Gretchen. A great composition with a tiny, detailed witch flying by in the background.

Thanks, everyone, for these lovely cards. This exchange was great fun and I'm looking forward to the next one!

I have heard from Jeannie again - she was briefly at the computer but has been a bit under the weather since she came home so she will rejoin us when she is able.

Sue

Beautiful set of cards Ernest! I am glad I was able to inspire you to try out film, it's great to work with.

Thanks for letting us know Sue. I hope she gets well soon!