Card From Cammi!

Beautiful Card Makes me Feel Better

So as I said earlier, I was flaked on in a swap.  Well, I tried to keep it pretty low key on the board I was on but Denice (with a "c") asked me if she could send me a little something .  She sent the most beautiful card/post-it holder!  So nice! Her work is fantastic.  Hope we will be partnered in a swap someday.  She also sent me a GC to Saturated Canary to get some more digis!!!  Too kind!  Thank you so much Denice.  mwah!

Some Thoughts on SWAPS

Hi...Don't really know who all(if anyone) reads my blog.  I guess this is my chance to say what I think without offending anyone on any SWAP boards that I frquent.  So here goes...

For the first time ever, I was flaked on.  Now I wasn't total flaked on and cheated out of product or home made goodies but I still felt flaked on.  The person I was sisters with was supposed to purchase 14 items and make me a card then send them to me to count down to Valentine's Day.  On all the SWAPS I've ever been on,we are REQUIRED to check in on the message board about once a week.  My partner rarely checked in and when she did, it was a one or 2 line message.  I went about gathering items for her wishes and probably spent $60-$75 on her.  I got every thing wrapped and ready to ship to her and tried to pm (private mssg) her to ask for her addy.  Her pm box was full.  I let the hostess know that I was trying to get in touch and nothing....This went on for some time.  I also poted a header on the mssg board that her box was full...No response.  Finally 4 days before the box was supposed to be in my hands, she posts that she is waiting for one more item and will post the tracking number the next morning....Does she post?????? Nope!  Does she post the next day????  Nope!  I was done.  I pm'd the hostess and told her that I would not be sending my box and I did not want the other person to send me a box either.

It all comes down to COMMUNICATION!  Everyone has things that happen in life, we don't demand explinations, but for goodness sake, let us know something is up!

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO DO TO BE A GOOD SWAPPER
1.  Communicate~ check in at least as often as the hostess says.  If you screw up and don't check in for a while pm both the hostess and partner an apology.

2.  Read~  Look at what others are posting! Try to get to at least sort of know the people on the board!  I'm not very good at this and will try to get better.

3. Tidy up your space.  Clear out your PM box, update your profile, answer questions on the board. 

4. Appologize~  Life will get in the way!  Someone will get sick...something will get mailed late...that idea you had for project won't work...An apology will go leaps and bounds over repetitive excuses!

5.  Have Fun and Help Others Have Fun Too!!!!  Come on, it's glue and paper and glitter, not taxes and war and accidents!  If you aren't having fun and playing nice, why are you swapping in the first place 

Blessings~
Denise

Some more swap goodies!

14 Days of Valentines Swap for the PC Boards.  I really love these.  14gifts for my partner Ronnie an a Saturated Canary Easel card

 

 

 

Beautiful Card!

Received this beautiful card from Traci on the PC websight.  So pretty!  It's a Saturated Canary Stamp.  Her husband actually does the coloring!  So fantastic.  She also sent me Maya Road Tins and Tiles and Wall Flower (a Saturated Canary Stamp)  Loving it!

more swap stuff!

Swap items

A new swap from the Provo Craft MB.  This one was a Fill 'Er Up Swap where you fill an organizer with goodies and decorate the box.  Lots of fun!  Sharon was my partner.  Here is the box she sent to me.  TONS of goodies inside and the coolest decorations Steampunk! one the outside.  I totally love it!

 

 

This is the one I sent her.  It was my first try at Steampunk and I think it turned out pretty cool.

 

 

 

 

This is what I woke up to this morning!!! It's only Sept 29th and SNOW!!!  Not fun but hopefully it will all be gone by tomorrow and Aidan's final football game!  Go Bucs!

On an much better note, here are the ticket strips I made for one of Rhonda's swaps on the PC boards.  It took a while to get going since they are sooooo small and I had to figure out what would work .  I made the little notebooks, the pencil and schoolhouse are cricut cuts.  I think they turned out pretty good. 

oops forgot a couple things

Here are better shots of the criss cross cards Kelly made me and the super sweet bulletin board she made for Delanie.  She even decorated the push pins in kitty cats!

 

No Excuse Secret Sis Swap

Another super fun swap from over on the ProvoCraft Cricut Boards.  This one was a sister swap where we had to make certain items based on excuses we seem to come up with.  I made for Ali and here's what I did for her

 

 

Criss cross cards and gift card holders

 

Organizational item.  She wanted a place to store here stamped images.  With back to school I found a great small notebook that I altered.  I also had some copic markers that I don't use (I use ProMarkers) so I added them to the notebook. (below)

 

 

Use a crimper or corrigated cardboard.  UGH!  I don't have a crimper and wasn't feeling very inspired by cardboard but I did decide to use the cardboard to accent these cute MFT stamped images.  I actually love the touch it adds.

Steampunk or Vintage.  I altered this little shadowbox I haven't done a lot of either type of item so I was really happy with how this turned out.

Flowers and flourishes.  We could make flowers but these from M's were so much prettier than what I could do and the price wad great.  The flourishes were autumn themed and I 3D'ed the turkey and pumpkin.

 

 

A Squeeze Item.  I did these little TicTac holders for orange (hence the squeeze) tic tacs.  The Snowman has mint tictacs and was the first one I found on Pinterest.

 

So Those are what I made and next up the BEAUTIFUL items made for me from Kelly Rook!  So AWESOME!!!!! 

A bo