Beautiful leaves from Elizabeth

Elizabeth thank you for this gorgeous page, so delightful for all the details, one discovers something new each time one looks at it.

Sorry its taken so long to acknowledge its arrival but I've been away from home.

Ruth your page will be completed and sent out by next week, I promise. Sorry folks but it looks like I've fallen behind but I'm working on catching up.

Thumbelina by Elizabeth

Some days ago I received the page done by Elizabeth.
Elizabeth choose the fairy tale "Thumbelina" by Christian Andersen. It is the story of a little girl size of a thumb which was born in a flower. In her life she experiences many adventures before falling in love with a prince just her size.

I hadn't in mind any more how nice this fairy tale was. Even if Thumbelina experiences some bad things the story is so lovely and cute. Just like the page Elizabeth created.

On the back side Elithabeth choose a fabric with birds. Birds or better to say a martin is a central element in the life of Thumbelina.

I like it very much! Thank you for this page.

Tree's is en route!!

I have put Ruth's page for April in the mail today!! Hopefully you will have it by the weekend, Ruth!! Give me a holler and I wil post and talk about it!
Happy Mother's Day to all who are Mums!!!
Elizabeth

I have yet to recieve a page for March or to hear about a page for April . Is something wrong with my topic? Are people having troubles with ideas?? It would be really nice if we could ramp up the communication a bit , I would apprecaite it. Thanks!

Liz's First Door Page

Liz has asked me to post pictures of the Doors page that I created for her, once she had recieved it. As we are anticiapting our second major snow storm in three days here in Virginia, I am doing so now as we will most likely loose power again, soon!!! I have had enough of winter so creating this page as ahidden forest doorway, was a breath of spring for me!!
one of the committments that I haqve made to myself in the creation of all of my pages for this swap is to use what I have and to recycle and repurpose in creative ways. This will ush me to think ab out what I ahve , find what I have and make room for future hunts for more treasure!! the background of this page was a wonderul green and brown plaid wool that was given to me just before it was put in the trash. I made the doorusing heavy duty interfacing that I painted with acrylic paint and then did some stitching for the wood details. I added leather hinges and a door handle. Then i got out my needle felting supplies and added the surrounding forest.
The hinges were added because the door opens to reveal a fabric/paper collage of endless possibility.

The photo is a bit dark but if I had used a flash, there would have been glare on the collage piece. The phrase reads, "Every Exit Leads To A NEw Entrance".To finish the page I added some hand stitching wih french knots and lazy dazy stitch and beads.Here are a few more detail shots.

Here is a piccture of the back. I kept it pretty simple and stitched on apocket of my own ahnd dyes fabric to hold a tag with all of the info for the swap.
I am now working on Shabby Chic for Deb and waitnig for the next storm!!!
Happy Stitching to all!!!