LTC's 2014

New Year's Day Quickie Swap 2014:
Simply a Rose
Quick fun and easy on a very cold winter day.
January 2014 Retired

Valentine's Day: Letter of Love
When my husband and I were first married he got orders from the USMC to go to Okinawa, Japan. At first I wasn't able to join him, so there was a lot of letter writing between us. This was long before people actually used cell phones or even made phone calls back to the USA (it costed a lot). No Skype for us back then. In our letters we would write.. "I love you...yesterday, and today, and forever and for always. Many cards were mailed too and they mostly were of Roses.
These LTC's are made in honor of all those letters we wrote so long ago.
January 2014 Retired

Brach's Conversation Hearts
Just a fun carve and LTC,
 when it was so very cold outside.
January 2014 Retired

Optical Illusions: Abstract background

I'm sure if I had took my time and not carved this in 20 minutes that it would have looked a bit better.  But I was stress carving.  Well I was stressing so decided to carve.  LOL 

February 2014 Retired

Funny Animals: Funny Bunny

Fun and easy stamp to carve and good use of extra ribbon and paper around the house.  Used water color for the grass and didn't clean up the stamp for that extra look. 
 Not sure what look, but I like it.

March 2014 Retired

Alphabet LTC:

O is for Oak
The bigger stamp is my hubby's siggy stamp.  
The smaller stamp I carved just to add to this
LTC. It's true the acorn is tiny and the Oak
tree is mighty.
April 2014 Retired

I'll find you in a Song:

Forever and Always
It's a beautiful song it's fitting for our marriage.  
We sign notes, cards and letters 
with the Forever and Always.
May 2014 

Red White & Blue
Roasting Marshmallows
Roasted marshmallows and chocolate nestled between two graham crackers, an evening breeze, twinkling stars, stories, and laugher-the perfect ingredients to end a perfect day.
May 2014 Retired

Groovy! Hippie Theme:
PEACE
This was a fun card to make.  
The stamp peace sign surrounded by flowers. 
The colorful peace signs is a piece of cloth. 
The small extra peace sign is a metal charm. 
July 2014 Retired

Happy Birthday Everyone:
Birthday Logo
The stamp itself is only the words Happy Birthday. 
The other is just ink dots and stencil.
July 2014 Retired 

Whatever!!
Fairy Moon
Just a sweet Fairy dangling her feet.
Distress Ink and Powder Heat Embossing.
August 2014 

Copycat!:
Midnight in the Forest
This was Hosted by Linden Leaf.  
Everyone had to carve the same image,
 but the the ltc's were as unique as each artist.
September 2014 Retired

 Your first carve:
KOI
This little Koi was my first carve.  
Airstream Dreams showed me how to carve. 
We were baby AQ's then and just learning the hobby.
September 2014

CATS: 
The look of love
This is a two sided stamp.  It was a stuggle for me.  
Hats off to those of you that have this art form down pat.
September 2014 Retired

All Hallows Eve:
You scared Me!
I stamped this on yellow paper and
 then colored in the orange for a more
 sun-setting scary look. 
October 2014 (retired)

Choices
You are free to make whatever choice you want, 
but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.
I carved the words and the directional sign awhile back.
Decided to make a few ltc's quick and fun to make.
November 2014 

Just the Stamp:
Arthur aka Wart
Not all of the stamp will fit on the size of an ltc. 
 If you would like to see the full stamp,
 you can see it in the description at AQ#247584
November 2014 Retired

Simply-2 Stamps:
Happy Garden
This crazy paper started as a white piece, 
then I added paint and design to it.  
The stamp was stamped and torn out. 
 Watercolor paint added to the paper.
November 2014 Retired

Gnome 2014 - Garden Snail
Stamped and used color pencils
December 2014

LTC's 2011, 2012 & 2013

In the year of 2011 I made one LTC.

Hmmm... not sure what I was doing other than AQ and letterboxing.  

Disney Villains LTC: Jafar

This stamp was carved by my son 

swofromtherock and it was the only LTC and swap that I joined all year.

September 2011


Year of 2012

 Coffee Time: Tricia's Espresso

These were made for the Coffee Time swap.

I work at Tricia's part-time and love to make coffee and I love working at Tricia's.  The coffee cup is their logo.

January 2012 Retired

FB Games you play: Farmville XP

I'm not really sure what I was going for on this LTC.  Quick and simply and used a new carving material that I did not like and it is probably one of my most simply LTC's ever made.

April 2012 Retired

Song Bird
These were actually made while sitting in a McDonalds while my husband was working nearby.
The stamp is the bird and the rest is hand drawn and colored in with colored pencils.  When you have lots of time on your hands you can come up with ideas and of course lots of coffee helped.
May 2013

Port City
My husband loves Port City Java Coffee way more than I think he should.  LOL so I made this LTC from their logo. 
November 2013 

These are the only 5 LTC's that I made in three years.  In those three years was two wedding in the family and our first grand baby was born. 
 Maybe that is why only 5 were made.  

LTC's 2010

Under the Sea: See under the Sea
I have used this turtle stamp on a few LTC's and it never gets old.  The card looks better than this picture of it.  The grass in the background is also a stamp carved to give the sea grass look.
January 2010 Retired

the cheese shop
In Williamsburg, VA they have the best little cheese shop in Merchants Square.  This LTC is carved from their logo and has the names of some of our favorite cheeses.  Yellow ribbon on the side. 

April 2010 Retired

the dog house

We have a great little hotdog place in town called the dog house and this LTC was made because it's just a nice place to eat.

April 2010 Retired

Old Fashioned Candy Barrel: 
Atomic Fireballs

This was not my best carving, but the fireballs are good and hot! 

May 2010 Retired

Farmville! Farmville Cash

Everybody wanted Farmville Cash! This was a fun care to make.  The stamp was carved out of the Moo carving material and it was a mess to color with markers, but in the end it turned out okay.

May 2010 Retired

Colonial Williamsburg:

Printing & Post Office

These were done for the Postal Colonial Williamsburg and 
I made LTC's to mail along with my postal. 
 Extra's were made for trading.  
June 2010 Retired

All About Autumn: Shades of Autumn

This was a recycle stamp from the Deja Vu swap.  This was the first stamp that I did embossing on.

August 2010 Retired 

Pressed Penny: Christmas in the Smokies

This was done for the Pressed Penny: Growing our collection...and LTC's too! swap.

My lettering didn't come out like I had hoped, but it was readable.

November 2010 Retired

The penny that was pressed for each LTC.

LTC's 2009

Letterbox Trading Cards 2009

Be my Valentine! 
Sweetheart Be Mine!

January 2009 Retired

Disney Mini: Beauty and the Beast: Gaston
Gaston was stamped in black ink and then colored in with coloring pencils.
January 2009 Retired

Historic Covered Bridges:
Meem's Bottom-Mount Jackson, VA
The longest remaining covered bridge in Virginia, 200 feet in a single span supported by the burr arch, it was built by Franklin H. Wissler in 1892-93. It is Virginia's only covered bridge open to vehicular traffic.
This was a hard one to ink because of all the many colors.

                          January 2009  Retired

Classic Games: Yahtzee

The dice, the word Yahtzee and the blue cup are all stamps.  I stamped the blue cup and cut it out and glued it onto the card.  Then I stamped the word Yahtzee and the dice with embossing ink.  It was a few extra steps to put this LTC together to look like the box top of the game Yahtzee.

January 2009 Retired 

Go Guard!
Simple and quick.  My two older boys were both in the National Guard.  My daughter in law is still in the National Guard this is to honor them and their service.
February 2009 Retired 

Postals and LTC's together:
LTC-Java Junkie
These were done together where the paper and the postal all flows together. It was really a lot of fun to make.  It is also the logo of the coffee shop where I work part-time (Tricia's Espresso)

February 2009 Retired

Shamrock Love 

These were made for Dina B's LTC making party.

March 2009 Retired

Lovely Lady Pretty Bow

This lovely stamp is carved by Lunarcy. I got it in the- Recycle: A Different Sort Of Postal
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gTrackerId=2716

Thought I would make a few LTC's from this beautifully carved stamp.

May 2009 Retired

Feathery: Off to Chatham

My youngest son has a great imagination and this is where "Chatham" comes from.  When he was younger he was always writing stories about his fortress and it's people.  This stamp was carved for the feather swap and to honor his great imagination.

June 2009 Retired

 Old Glory

The flag and the pole are two different stamps that I carved to make this LTC.  I used watercolor crayons for the background.

July 2009 Retired  

Sail Away
The boat, the puffs of wind and the clouds are the 3 stamps that make up this LTC.  The boat was stamped and cut out then glued on the LTC to make it look more like it was actually on the water.
July 2009 Retired

Morning Song
This bird was suppose to be a little bit bigger.  See where its foot and body kinda meet?  Well I accidentally carved part of it's belly off so instead got a smaller bird.  Really like this LTC with the torn paper. 
July 2009 Retired  

Recycled Holiday Cards: Snowy Night
 I free handed this image, not my best drawing.  Still not too good at carving stars, so not sure why I put so many in this image.  Used Christmas cards that we had received from the year before.
October 2009 

Bits and Pieces: Winter Fun

Using up some of those small leftover pieces of carving material to make this LTC.  Snow boot, hand throwing a snowball and a snowman.
December 2009 Retired

let it snow: winter friends
Just made a few LTC's on a cold winter night.  Carved this snowflake and had to use it to make a few cards.
December 2009 Retired

FRIENDS

Two snowmen are better than one.  Just passing time on a cold winter night.
December 2009 Retired

This will finish out my 2009 year of LTC's.  My favorite 3 to make was:
Feathery: Off to Chatham

Old Glory

Morning Song

LTC Series

What's in your Backpack?
I did these LTC's as a series that I sent out to the same people each month for 9 months.  They were a lot of fun to make and each month trying to come up with an idea for that month's card.

What's in your Backpack?: Ziploc

July 2008 Retired

What's in your Backpack?: Ink Dot

August 2008 Retired

What's in your Backpack?: Compass

September 2008 Retired

What's in your Backpack?: Big & Juicy

October 2008 Retired

What's in your Backpack?: Camera

I don't carry my camera as much anymore,

 since I have a camera on my cell phone.

November 2008 Retired

 What's in your Backpack?: Candy

December 2008 Retired

What's in your Backpack?: Clues

Each of the icons were tiny and are now cooties

January 2009 Retired

What's in your Backpack?: My Logbook

This is a mini logbook with images inside.

February 2009 Retired

 What's in your Backpack?: My Siggy Stamp

Always have my siggy stamp.  

The signature stamp above has been used so much,

 that it is almost smooth and can't make out the image.

  I have another siggy stamp now.

March 2009 Retired

I made a second edition of these LTC's to send to another group of letterboxes, before Retiring the series.

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Happy Birthday LTC:

These were made for a few letterboxers and mailed to them near their birthday.  Therefore it was just a single LTC and I made a copy just for keeps.

Made for SudoKu Crazy

Made for Mary of Rottie Love

Made for Shoafsters

Made for 4GC

Made for the pink dragon

Made for turlelove

Made for airstream dreams

Made for Libby of Via'sHeart