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