The Message & Curiosity

I am not doing too many swaps these days but I could not resist the 100,000th swap on Swap-bot.  It has over 600 participants all over the world.  The only real requirement is that your handmade piece of swapable art must have Ernie, the swapbot mascot it it.  I hope my partner likes her ATC.  I call it The Message.  Below is a card I made a while back for a Steampunk swap, I call it Steampunk Curiosity.  Sadly, it never reached it's intended recipient.  Darn South African mail!

Dragon Fairies and Dr Who

What do they have in common?  Not much, they are just the current subject matter of my most recent ATC's.  The Dragon Fairies swap theme was just that but the the Dr Who card is for a steampunk swap.  The dragon fairies are supposed to be a hybrid creature.  I drew a few prototypes and realized they were all male.  That is when the couple below evolved.  The Dr Who card happened as I was looking around the Internet for some steampunk machines and found Alex Holden's Steampunk Dalek and thought it was perfect for my peering Victorian gentleman.  My image is enchanced by minature brads.  (And by the way, this season of Dr Who is one of the best so far, even if my heart still belongs to David Tennant.  OK and this week's episode is written by my favorite writer, Neil Gaiman.)