Welcome to the December trade. I'm Donna, and I'll be your host for the month.

Subject: Holiday Traditions - We are a pretty diverse group here on Drawspace celebrating different holidays in different ways. The idea behind this month's trade is for you to share the traditions and customs surrounding the holidays that are important to you.

This is a drawing challenge where any medium is welcome - please no computer art!
~ The dimensions for the cards are as follows : 2.5 x 3.5 inches or 6.35 x 8.89 cm. As for paper type, a good cardstock, Bristol, or watercolor paper is recommended.
~ Please mark the reverse of your card with your name, the subject, and any other information you feel might be relevant.
~Please ensure that recipient's addresses AND your return addresses are correct on your envelopes, as some of these travel a very long way, and we don't want any to go missing.

Sign-up starts December 1, 2010, and will run for one week, closing on December 7, 2010. You then have until December 31, 2010 to complete your cards and send them out, one for each person on the list. Please PM me with your name and complete address, and I will send them out to the group when the sign-up is closed.

If you need help or have any questions, please give us a shout - we are all more than happy to help.



Traders:

1. Donna (me)
2. Jangra
3. mommatee
4. Roxy
5. texaslady-59
6. DeboraM
7. Tracie
8. Cynthia
9. mmgalitz
10. KenC3

I'm in.

Gotcha!

You beat me Jeanne... Count me in too ....
Donna u must not have had to much wine last night cause u beat me on here too....I get the house to myself today so I can finish up my Nov cards ...

You'll have to add me too. Even though I shouldn't I just can't resist. I'll do them at work so when I'm home I can continue my Christmas gift and start my portfolio

Oh Okay .. Put me down...Now where's that corkscrew ?

Whhoo-hooooo.... lookie who the cat drug in.... YYEEAAHHH!!! Carol and Roxy Im happy we got ya in!!! Christmas traditions ... what a perfect trade for this month!!! I knew u guys couldnt resist... lol

ME TOO!! Count me in!

Wahoo! Looks like we're going to have a great trade!

mommatee -- you beat me in this morning...I was up late last night...still drinking wine, lol.

Carol -- There's nothing more tragic than a bottle of wine and no corkscrew.

Roxy -- That's the spririt. Tis the season of overextending yourself, afterall. If I could figure out how to illustrate that it could be one of my ATC's.

This isn't exclusively about Christmas isn't it? So I could draw something that has to do with Eid ul-Fitr (breaking the Fast, the end of the Ramadan) if I wanted to?
Or Halloween?

Trees

Absolutely, Tracie! This is all about sharing your holiday traditions...choose any holiday (or holidays) that is important to you.

Oh I thought it was only Christmas time, well that's good to know

I'm in

Trees

I can't believe that with everything else going on I have decided to participate. Count me in. Jeanne I got your window yesterday - really good work.
Cynthia

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Wahoo! Looks like we're going to have a great trade!


Carol -- There's nothing more tragic than a bottle of wine and no corkscrew. sad_an.gif


LOL !!!! That has happened to me .. Sounds like you've experienced the same .. Too Funny !!!!!!!!!!!!

I've started brainstorming a few ideas. I'd like to get them done early this time and not like a month late :S.

Okay, I haven't participated in an ATC for awhile and I have break from classes until January so...why not...I'll bite.
Tis the season afterall

I just finished two cards.

It happened a few times while I was traveling so I keep a corkscrew in my travel bag now.


Yeah, that's my plan too. I wasn't late with the last one, but it took a Herculean effort to get them done on time.


Welcome, Marisa!


Wowzers, Jeanne...you ARE fast!

WOW!!! We are gettin the people in this month....Tis the Season!!! Im so glad....its great to have more people !!!

Another one finished.

Okay, I think I can fionish all the other things I have going this month and get this one done. I am in.
Ken

Awesome!



Glad you could join us, Ken!

Hi guys,
I need to sit this one out. I apologize for my cards not getting out. My October Stones & Rocks are all complete... they've been ready for weeks. I hope to finally get them out this weekend. My November cards are about halfway done. Work has picked up alot, my apartment is a lot of work, and my great-grandmother (of 99 3/4 years) recently passed away. So I am going to work on catching up and getting my cards sent out. I promise you will all get them, well, eventually.

Enjoy the trade and the holiday season! I look forward to seeing each of your traditions.

So sorry about your grandma. She sure lived a long life. Almost to 100. What an accomplishment. Don't worry about the cards. Just take care of yourself and finish them when things are better. Hugs, Jeanne

Here are 5 cards I have finished. I have 3 more sketched. I'm using my ornaments and stuffed animals I have bought to use as models and to sit around for decorations. Not decorating this year so figured I may as well use them for the cards. The one of the door is my front door with the stocking I have for the 2 dogs. It has 2 stuffed toys in it apiece for them...so far. I'm a sucker for the look and reaction my dogs have when they get new toys. So they get lots. In fact they try to go thru any bags I bring in.

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Hi guys,
I need to sit this one out. I apologize for my cards not getting out. My October Stones & Rocks are all complete... they've been ready for weeks. I hope to finally get them out this weekend. My November cards are about halfway done. Work has picked up alot, my apartment is a lot of work, and my great-grandmother (of 99 3/4 years) recently passed away. So I am going to work on catching up and getting my cards sent out. I promise you will all get them, well, eventually.

Enjoy the trade and the holiday season! I look forward to seeing each of your traditions.
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Andrea, my thoughts and prayers are with u, it is sooo hard to loose a family member, esp someone as special as a great grandma and to be almost100...wowzers...
I hope ur holidays are woderful...stay in touch with us all.....dont worry about our cards just take care of yourself!!!! We all know u will send them when u get back on ur feet!! Take care!!! Tonita

Jenne, what lovely cards as usual!!! Thank u for sharing with us!!! U r always so quick!!!

Andrea -- So sorry to hear about your grandmother. We'll miss you in the trade. It's so easy to get overwhelmed this time of year...try not to get too frazzled!

Jeanne -- Those are fantastic! My cat used to love Christmas too. She got so excited when we put up her tree with all those neat toys hanging on it. She also loved it when I came home with bags, although being a cat, what she really wanted was to play in the bag, not what was in it. Well, unless she smelled catnip. Then that was a different story.

Wow your cards look so cute! Well so far I have outlined 4 and a half I'm working on the 5th one and for those 5 I didn't use any reference I wanted to see if I can do stuff out of my head but if I do run out of ideas I will turn to google lol

U CAN DO IT ROXY....I believe in u!!! lol Post em so we can see em....

Here are two more.

I'll post them when they are done, I'll work on them today at my work if it doesn't get too busy.

Finished one more tonight. Only one more to go unless we get more signed up.

Geez Jeanne... u go girl!!!! I love em all!!! Can I have some of that energy// I sit and draw everyday but I ALWAYS get bothered!!! lol...Ive got a few done already too but Im just never completely happy with them...hopefully the more I draw I will be more comfortable with myself and my art...

Tonita it's just me and the dogs here so I can do artwork any time or all the time if I want.

Here are my last two unless we get more people.

Those are so cute Jeanne...

Thank you.

Hi Ya Kids,,

Sorry my Trades Oct-Nov are late... a lot goin on here, only 3 more left so postin them all together...I have started a watercolour course last month which I have to practise a lot.... but am really enjoying it. I'm opting out this month but the forms are great...happy Christmas...Nollag sona...

Thank you Drawspace.com

Hi Pado. I'm glad you are doing some art. Have fun with the online class. I should take a watercolor class but I just don't. I'm really happy with the colored pencils. Maybe some day.

Sorry, I am offtopic, but really curious: what portfolio are you working on?

I want to apply to University here in Montreal in art education but I need to make a portfolio for the application and I'm taking way too long to start I have about one thing I can put in and I need about 20-30 different kind of things. It's due in March I just don't know where to start basically.

How nice! You must be very happy
The best way to start (I think) is asking them what they are looking for in such a portfolio. I know that Art Universities in our country appreciate certain types of drawings/works in a portfolio like this. And start working...you don't have much time left.
Good luck!

I received my new Rembrandt soft pastels that I ordered for my art class i'm taking so I decided to colour some of my cards with them. so far I have 3 done.

Roxy I am just learning about Pastels .. I may do a couple I am so slow ...so far only 2 drawn out.. .. With Work and other obligations I am finding time is NOT my friend..

Time is so not my friend either I like never have time an I'm always tired. So I sleep as much as I can in the morning but then I only have time to get ready and go to work. I never really worked with pastels so it's nothing special. The classes I'm taking is with this girl and she's really good at pastels so that's why I chose pastels to learn. You should check out her art Melissabreault.ca

Was I supposed to PM my address to someone? I forgot. (old age)

To Donna.

All my cards went out today except Marisa's. Waiting for her address.

Hi everyone! It looks like we're going to have an awesome trade here. We have 10 traders so you'll be making 9 ATC's plus one for yourself, if you choose. I just sent the addresses to everyone so that you have them all in the same place. Let me know if you don't get your list, or if you have any other questions.

It would be great if everyone would post pictures of their ATC's in this thread (as Jeanne has already done with her beautiful ATC's) so that we all get to see them and admire them!

Happy Trading and Happy Holidays!