Thanks and Photos October 2024 ATC Swap

[pyjama princess]

My L ATCs have arrived.
Borderline went with Lanterns - I like this die. Don't think I've seen a prettier lantern die.
Little Jan did Lamb and London. A really sweet little lamb that has been decoupaged. And a rather magnificent London scene.



Four Ls from Pink Pig.
Luck and Love - should that be lucky in love LOL! I managed to catch the sparkle of the die cuts.



Followed by two autumnal ATCs - Lantern and Leaves.
Of course I 'love' the lantern pumpkins with their nod to Halloween. And thankfully the camera has caught the shine of the leaf die cuts - they're so pretty!



Thanks everyone. Another fun swap.

[pyjama princess]

Just in case anyone's interested here's the background to my Halloween Ls.

Carnation Crafts launched a Getting Together Collection of dies and vignettes last year. It was a set with various sports and games plus sets of males and females viewed from the back. So there's a darts player, golfer, footballer, rugby player, tennis player, cricketer, bowls player and snooker player. And a female set called 'Better Halves' which are women dressed for nights out. (I think they later brought out sports women after many requests). Carnation then did what they call an expansion set of vignettes for Halloween to be used with the original dies. I don't think they quite work because the mummy for example is bent forward ready to bowl! The footballer has his foot on a pumpkin, the rugby player has a pumpkin under his arm where the rugby ball was originally, the cricketer has slashed clothes but I cut his helmetted head off to make it more Halloween! The ladies have just had there clothes changed to Halloween outfits.
I added Halloween backing papers to try and make them look even more Halloween themed.

[Borderline]

I am interested! The collection sounds very useful and I love your dedication to Halloween. I've never bought anything from Carnation Crafts but I have seen some lovely things from them.

[pyjama princess]

I am interested! The collection sounds very useful and I love your dedication to Halloween. I've never bought anything from Carnation Crafts but I have seen some lovely things from them.

Since 'discovering' Carnation Crafts I've always said you can't make a bad card if using there dies and vignettes. They also do SVG USBs with the die collections converted to cutting files plus some card bases that will never be die sets.

I just love Halloween but don't know many people to make stuff for. I have one friend on another forum who likes it as much as me so I make something for her. She also runs the other ATC group I'm in and November is always Halloween themed. She's trying to start up a Halloween swap for next year but so far there's only me and her with suitable stash. I have offered to send stuff to people so we'll have to wait and see what happens.
I did have ideas for the L theme ATCs but as my desk was buried under my Halloween stash I just had to make the ATCs Halloween themed with a slight nod to the letter L.