WOYWW 418: the one with the ATC reveal

First, I want to begin by saying how saddened I was to learn about the horrible murders in London on Saturday night.  You in England have had a hard few weeks and you are in my thoughts and prayers.  Equally troublesome is the attack on a police officer today outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.  Seems the French have also been targeted once too many times, too!

I'm not sure if Julia, our host at Stamping Ground, has received her ATCs, but I know that Helen, my PIF partner, has received hers.  Therefore, I'm going to share them with everyone and hope they are still a surprise when Julia receives hers.

These are the only ones I made for year 8 of WOYWW.

My PIF partner is Helen (H).   In case you can't tell, there are four stories to each town house, making eight in total.

I like to send a little something extra to my PIF partner, because it is just good manners.  Now I'm sure many of you who visit each week know Helen.  There is NOTHING Helen can't or won't buy that I could possibly gift her with.   In fact, I suspect she spends more each month on art supplies than I spend in a year.  It suddenly hit me I had something she didn't have and couldn't buy at the store.

Although it wasn't as much as I would have preferred, I sent her a sheet of lavender handmade (by me) paper.  Why lavender you ask, since I had so little of it?  Because it's one of Helen's favorite colors.  Just visit her photo blog when she goes to Kew and you'll know why.

This and the next one (obviously) are for Julia.  I got this silly idea to add a tag that showed WOYWW on one side with the year, and one of my rocking horses on the reverse side.  I am not sure the idea was a good one, but I did it anyway.

For Diva, I cut and added a plastic bingo marker so it didn't stick too high above the ATC.  After I gessoed the centers of all the cards, I wished I hadn't.  But live and learn, I say.

These are the two sides of the tags I affixed to the back with tiny brads.    I STILL can't stamp!

But wait!  You are in for a real treat.

These incredible beauties arrived in the mail this week.

I didn't ask Julia for one, but she sent one anyway.  She is always doing something sweet like that.  I NEVER can get ahead when it comes to her thoughtfulness.

This handmade card (solely for Bleubeard's benefit) and this Christmas 3-D embellishment arrived with my PIF ATC from Nikki at Graphix and Design.  You know she's famous for the WOYWW buttons everyone uses on their blogs.

How appropriate is this? (Yes, that's the handsome Bleubeard and the button was created by Nikki)

She made this specifically for me.  Not sure anyone noticed that Lilian was left out of the mix, but I know Nikki created this for me as soon as she thought there were no more people joining the ATC party.   I can't thank Nikki and Julia enough for these gorgeous ATCs.

This beauty is my rocking horse of the week and it's sitting on my guillotine cutter that takes the place of my desk.  I apologize that this is already longer than most desker posts I create.  Thanks for visiting.  I greatly appreciate it.  Please leave your number if you have arrived here from Julia's blog.