WoodlandBanshee

My name is Helene. I am a nemophilist🌲 living on Vancouver Island on the West Coast of Canada. My little family has chickens, bunnies, and a year round food garden. We are avid campers and I truly cherish our time in the woods. When not camping, nature walking or gardening, I am most likely crafting ,making or building something and I am on social media a lot more than I should be. I take photos of everything.

My most favoured crafts include mixed media card making, gelli printing, assemblage, collage, and rubber stamping. I like layering with paints, papers, inks, pens, textured papers, and combining projects.

I like rich, deep, opulent colours and metallic;I use a lot of copper and gold tones in my art, but go through phases of working with one or two preferred colours at a time until I get bored with the combo and switch it up.

I am drawn to darker themes and images and am not into super cutesy/kawaii themes and I really don't like stickers.

I make and trade ATCs, ATCoins, Flipbooks, Skinnys, Twinchies, Inchies, collage cards, geli backgrounds, master cards, collaboration pieces, handcrafted postcards, handmade embellishments, handmade greeting cards and I am always interested in a craft challenge swap.

SOME IMAGES/THEMES I WOULD ENJOY:

• skulls, bones, and anatomy

• flora and fauna - leaves, trees, forest creatures

• suns, moon, stars

• bats, birds, butterflies, bugs, insects, and arachnids of all kinds, but especially the beetle and spider species

• vintage, victorian, and gothic themes and images

• mythical creatures, fairies, gnomes, magical beings......

• elements and elemental correspondences

• anything handmade by you

• travel/exploration

• First Nation's and Inuit art and themes

• themes from the ocean, the sky, and space

Please don't send me:

• foam shapes or kid crafts

• colouring pages

• city postcards

• dollar store or kawaii stickers

• cartoon characters, princess, Disney

• Please do not send me stickers

• Please don't send your current ephemera like yesterday's bus ticket, receipts, labels etc. It will likely just get recycled.

I am an advocate of the environment, equality, the right to women's reproductive health and the right to choose, and I am an ally of First Nation communities whose land I am grateful to live, work, and craft on. I love suns moons and stars

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