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.