I haven't shared work by my friends for a long time. I participate in swaps year-round on four different lists. Plus, several people send birthday cards and some send RAKs.

I won't try to identify who made these, because you wouldn't know them anyway, but you may be interested to know that they come from the USA, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, France, South Africa, The Netherlands, and others I may have forgotten.

These are just the ones received in 2015. We are finding ourselves swapping with the same people over and over as many find the international postage to be a burden.

Thank you to all my friends!

Ddd

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A recent birthday brought all these lovelies from friends all over the world.

From Annelies: 

From Astrid:

From Tim Holtz:

From Bev:

From Carla:

From Gerda:

From Laurie:

From Margaret:

From Mary:

From Nancy:

From Rhapsy:

From Thelma:

From Winnie:

From Yone:

Yes, you are SO right - I am one lucky girl!

Ddd

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These favor boxes were made by my S-I-L for her sister's wedding. The butterfly is stamped using my handcarved rubber stamp. She added embossing and glitter, pearls and rhinestones to make these just beautiful. 

The butterfly rests on a bow on the box top.

Ddd

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 A few months ago I was working a lot from inspiration pieces. I got the idea to sign up a few friends to work with me in a series. I selected the inspiration piece and created my card. Then I sent ONLY my scanned card to the next person. When they sent their scan to me I sent ONLY that one on to the next person. Here's the resulting serial inspiration...

This is the inspiration piece...

I used the colors, flowers, and the ruffle from the bed skirt to create this... 

Elaine used some of the same colors, kept flowers, and a little of the layout. She substituted lace for my ruffle...

 Janet kept the diagonal in the layout and the large flower, though she moved it. She also used rubber stamping on her card like Elaine did. Her sentiment has been framed and she changed up all the colors...

Robin kept the triangle but changed it to a center alignment. She also uses a single large flower but has changed out the little florals for a center embossed band. In place of the framed sentiment she uses a framed 3D cutting. Also, new color scheme...

So, we're at the end. Now go back and compare Robin's piece with the inspiration piece. What a ride!

Ddd

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I have just realized I have been remiss in not posting the beautiful cards handmade for my birthday by my Internet friends! SO LATE am I that I must admit my birthday was TWO MONTHS AGO!

Sorry to all these lovely ladies:

Astrid

Bev

Carla

Mary

Nancy

Kim

Laurie

Thelma

Winnie

So again, many thanks for these lovely cards.

Ddd

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I received a lot of cards this season from online friends. Some were mailed from overseas and may yet still arrive so this entry will be updated to include those as time goes by.

Added 1/10/08:

Gerda

As of 12/30/07:

Bev

Claudette

Dutch Girls

Idabelle

Leanne

Lin

Maggie

Nancy

Sheena

Ddd studio3d@ccwebster.net

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Updated: Thursday, 10 January 2008 7:00 PM PST

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I belong to several online groups and many friends from those groups sent lovely cards for my birthday. Some are on more than one list with me and many friends not on any of my lists. So I thought I'd show them all here in one place.

Thank you, my friends!

Ddd studio3d@ccwebster.net

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