Catching up

I have so many draft posts waiting to be published that I decided to have a look through them all and refile them ready to publish.  It appears to be in July 2018 that my Blog began 'slipping'...... life began to take over .......soooooo

Here's the first 'delayed' post.

Back in July, after much discussion among the members, our honoured Leader, Jan, of UKATC Group agreed to host some ATCoin swaps - we so appreciate this as there were quite a few members who were interested in trying them..........

This now means that once a month now we have five swaps.
Yeah! That's right .... five.

Members are allocated a partner for each month's ATC swap and this is compulsory - we agreed to this when we joined the Group.  Jan hosts two ATC swaps and two ATCoin swaps which we can choose to join or ignore.

I love creating so I usually join in all five swaps .......

I posted about both the ATC swaps - The Colour swap is here and the Theme swap is here.

Our Partner swaps are always a surprise as the design is left up to each artist.

This month I swapped with ChrisF who sent me some delicate diecut cards.

Thank you ChrisF.

I sent some stamped teddies which I received in a 'stamped images' swap earlier in the year.

The Coins were new and exciting ......  we had decided that there would be two categories - The Sea and Pot Luck.

 I used the free stamps that came with my magazine along with some oxide inked backgrounds.

I received this little beauty from Lin - Thank you Lin.

This pretty coin came from Thelma - Thank you Thelma.

Ruth blew me away completely and I am still in awe of such an artwork ...... look at it in close up  - Thank you Ruth.

Pot Luck gave us free choice so once again I used oxides and some more magazine free stamps.

I used the same background stamp but moved it along on each coin.

The smaller Tree and birds were stamped on the same principal and TH stickers used for the sentiment.

This purple beauty came from JudithAnn - Thank you.

I received this very pretty one from JanW - Thank you.

This coin arrived in its own very special envelope - Thank you Beth.

Now I am giving up with this post as Blogger is playing up and wont let me place my pictures where I want them.......  throws toys out of pram.......