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Hello! My name is Vicki & I am an ATC addict! I'm from CT, USA and have lived in this house with my husband & best friend for 15 years since our 2nd year of marriage. (my cats are my kids)

I've been making ATC's for just over a year and have a growing collection of about 110! I am returning to swap-bot after a long absence! (Swapped 6x in Oct/06, but only 1 swap shows in my profile?) Please feel free to visit both my blog and my flickr site listed above. Looking forward to trading!

I've been rubberstamping for 10+ years and started out as a cardmaker. I've done SOME scrapbooking, all gifts... and none for me! (I hope to rectify that with a Book of Me someday to be filled with reminiscences of a life well-lived, so far)

With no children, I have done mostly family or heritage albums, as preservation has always been important to me. Volunteering with at-risk children, in a big brother/big sister-type organization, I've learned the importance of scrapbooking with the kids! They LOVE taking pictures, collecting souvenirs - I call them memory books.

I once taught a scrapbooking class "series" for children. LOTS of fun and I plan to do more teaching.

With ALL of the different types of ATC styles out there: fabric, drawing, photography, stamping, digital - I still prefer those made with vintage people, old photos, ephemera, old labels, etc. I also love cards that include words or quotes!! Very open to any and all subject matter except for "cute."

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

Looking forward to more swapping here - but I do stay QUITE busy with 1-4-1 trades and swaps (5/5, 9/9) via flickr, yahoo, ebay & facebook! You can contact me through either website as I'm always up for a trade!!!

Happy ATC'ing!