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Hello! My name is Vicki, I am from CT, USA and have lived in this house with my husband & best friend for 21 years since our 2nd year of marriage. (our 2 cats are our kids)

I am returning to swap-bot after a long absence! (Swapped 6 times, but only 2 swaps show in my profile?) Please feel free to visit my flickr account - I really don't keep up with my blog these days. Looking forward to trading!

I've been involved in some form of paper art for 14+ years, starting out as a cardmaker. I've done SOME scrapbooking, mostly family or heritage albums. I've participated in hundreds of swaps all over the web (ATC's, postcards, board books, tags, 4x4, mail art, etc) since 2006.~ mostly in Yahoo Groups. I still use paint, photography and all sorts of paper in my mixed media collage, I just do it in my collection of Art Journals, these days! That is where I continue to practice and refine new and old techniques: acrylics, watercolor, ink, stencils, hand-carved stamps, sketching, portraits, doodling, photo manipulation and so much more.

I've done some teaching - LOTS of fun and I plan to do more!

With so much diversity out there: fabric, drawing, photography, paint, digital - I am very open to any and all mediums, techniques & subject matter.

And last but not least - I love dimension and try to incorporate that in almost all of my creations. In my early ATC days, someone once told me "your cards beg to be touched!" That was the nicest compliment!

Looking forward to becoming active again, I'm always up for a trade!!!

• vintage ads and magazines
• retro/kitsch
• fonts, letters, text
• collage and collage fodder
• old, used postcards
• colorful or interesting fruit, veg (produce) labels
• mail art
• handmade paper
• handpainted (by you) paper
• punchinella/sequin waste, other than circles
• fiber art, stitched paper
• wolf, crow, fox
• anything in bright neon colors
• pens, pencils, erasers
• blank journals any size
• hand-carved stamps
• Washi Tape
• packing tape
• ocean, sea, beach (sea glass, starfish, shells)
• old photos and slides