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Oh Boy!Paper: Daisy D, Anna Griffin
Die Cuts: Elephant & Balloons by Cricut Label 1 by Spellbinders Stamps: Brayton Alphabet by JustRite Sorry for the blurriness of the photo. Every have one of those days where no matter how you sweet talk your camera, it's not going to take a good shot? Today was one of those days. This card was made for a Baby themed card swap, but since all my friends (and I) are lining up to be Old Maids, I thought I'd come up with something that could swing for birthdays or other festive events as well, preferably ones that involve cotton candy. I love cotton candy :-) What you can't see due to excessive blurriness, is that I sanded nearly every square inch of that card and then rubbed brown ink over it in an artistic manner. Even the elephant, who looks way cool distressed, btw, like an 1950s storybook about a circus that was very well loved. Spellbinders Designer SpotlightIn case you want to feed my narcissistic tendencies and show Spellbinders how my public loves me ;-) Here is a link the design team spotlight on moi. http://spellbinderspaperarts.com/blog/designer-spotlight-on-donya-schroeder/ I'll be back tomorrow with a few new projects. Ciao dahlings! Might as Well be SpringHooray, hooray~ It's up above freezing today! The birds are singing and the dog is chasing them all the way to the neighbors farm. Definitely something Springish in the air, groundhog be darned. Here's a pretty little card to celebrate: This is an uber simple card, easily replicated for masses of Valentines or birth announcements, you don't even have any major coloring to do, just stamp the main image (Crafty Secrets) in Versafine Black ink. Normally I stamp images with Tsukineko's Archival Brillance Graphite so I can color them with Copics and not worry about bleeding, but with really detailed images you need that Versafine or you are going to wind up with a blob. A very sad blob.
I did this card once using Marvy punches and one with Spellbinder Nestabilities in what I suppose could be called a cardmaking version of the WWF Smackdown. Guess what? Nesties won, hands down. They just look way more polished, especially when you are working with vellum, like on the background scallop here. One other thing you can't do with the punches in that reverse stenciling technique to create a border (you can see a how to on reverse stenciling a couple of posts back, the blog party post). Nope that's not an extra piece of tan cardstock behind the main image, I just inked up the die itself with a light brown fluid chalk inkpad. Winner!Congratulations to Patty, winner of the Tire Swing Stamp! Here's what she wrote: "I’m so excited! How awesome…I won something…I’m weeping so it is difficult to type or see what I’m typing. I’m so new to all of this and this ole dog is trying to learn all this new blogging, posting, and stamping stuff. Thanks so much for blessing me with this precious stamp." Patty also had some great memories of swinging with her friends at recess when she was a girl:
Personally, my hair was never long. I was one of those kids who cried when I got the tangles combed out of my hair (it's curly underneath the top layer, so evilly prone to tangles!), so my mom decided I was a pixie cut girl, lol. I always envied those long locked beauties! This is my "tire swing"- an old rope that goes out over the quarry. Not for the faint of heart. There are picnic tables, old cars, and TADPOLES (eeee!) lurking under the surface of that water. Bless you, too, Patty! And I hope you have tons of fun with your new stamp!
XO D Bone IdleAhhhh, the sweet calm has arrived after the storm of preparing samples for CHA. In some ways I'm sad that I'm not going this year. I don't get to hang out with all my awesome crafty friends and do awesome crafty things...oh and I don't get to go to Disneyland! But... I get to breath! And I don't have jet lag! Boy howdy, is that ever a good thing! So today, as a treat I did ab-so-lute-ly nothing. Nada. It was gorgeous :-) Part of doing nothing was going out with Alfie to chat with the horses, Red and Bud. They are total posers, lol. Then Gabby the cat and I curled up on the sofa and (finally!) watched the newest Indiana Jones movie. Harrison Ford is still a looker in my book.
Hope everyone is a having a similarly delightful weekend and don't forget you have 'til midnight tonight to enter for a chance to win the tire swing stamp! XO D More Recent Articles |
