Carol’s magic garden ATCs

Raven ATC swap

Here are all the raven ATCs

They have now been posted to the participants and should arrive within 7-10 days. Thank you to everyone who partipated - they are all wonderful

Mari’s Magic Garden cards

Here are my cards for the Magic Garden swap.  I printed rose pictures and a small rose border onto blue and beige card stock.  Then I used watercolor to paint over the pictures, to highlight and accent.  I mailed them on Sept. 26th so they are on their way to Australia!

Mari Mann 2007

four and twenty blackbirds…

well Ravens actually….

 

 Samm

xo

Pagan Celebrations ATC’s

When the Raven’s began talking about doing an ATC swap, I was intrigued and headed out into the web-o-sphere to learn about this new (to me) artistic form.  I was directed (by google, bien sur) to ATCards, and quickly found a swap that appealed to me.  It was called Pagan Celebrations and participants were to depict, in any medium, any aspect of a pagan celebration of their choice.  I ended up doing two of Ostara, one of Beltane and one of Mabon, all watercolor on card stock. 

Ostara is the Vernal or Spring Equinox, and is the source of Easter’s two main symbols: dyed eggs and bunnies.  Beltane or May Eve is a fertility festival celebrating the burgeoning plant world, the regeneration of new life, and abundance of all kinds.  I chose to represent it with an overflowing basket.  Mabon is the Autumnal Equinox, also called Harvest Home, in which we are gathering in all our harvests and thanking the Goddess for it all.  I painted the Mayan maize (corn) god, as an ear of corn.

Mari Mann 2007

Traveller’s raven ATCs

Here are my raven themed ATCs

and a close-up

Soul Sister’s Raven ATC’S

A Raven For All Seasons

She Wolf presents: A Raven For All Seasons 

Card Fronts

Card Back

Mari’s Raven Cards

My Raven cards are completed and winging their way towards Carol and their eventual destinations.  They are watercolors on card stock; the glyphs are Mayan and the images are based on Aboriginal Australian and Native American representations of Ravens.  My signature, MR, is a conflation of my name and my husband’s (Mari and Rod) and also my alias, MoonRabbit.

My Raven ATC’s

I finally finished my raven ATC’s- one card has a chopped off beak - the ravens were printed with a gcoco screen and then cut out and stitched.