Just a quick message.
I have not been able to update or do any projects this week. I've been sick in bed most of the week and when not there, at the doctors, physical therapist, at the hospital having a Brain and a Spine MRI and having a ton of blood work done. Long story and it would take forever to explain.
Hopefully this will pass quickly and I'll be back to creating this week.
Sweet Dreamers Challange #6......Get Your Motor Running.
UPDATE: Took the photo over again this morning with the morning sunlight. Much better but it enhances the fact that the blade wasn't sharp enough. You can barely see the jagged littled edge in real life but photo seems to make it larger than life.
As soon as I saw the thread I knew I was going to use a image/stamp with a motor cycle. Was searching for a Harley but didn't come across one. I used to own a 1967 Harley (Hog as they were called back then)...so using a bike was perfect for me.
I almost forgot that I hadn't completed the card. Super busy week...with not much spare time. Then grandson decided he wanted to spend the holiday weekend with me. Great fun. So I spotted the incomplete card sitting on the table and grabbed paper, adhesive and cardstock and proceeded to assemble the card.
Discovered way too late that the blade wasn't sharp enough to cut the Neenah Cardstock clean. Too late to start over.
Get card assembled, grab camera only to realize the sun was now almost set and I had no good lighting...almost golden.
Uploaded card but tomorrow will rephotograph is in the sunlight.
I used Neenah Solar White Cardstock, Black Cardstock and the image which I found online and love, was stamped on pale dove gray cardstock. I stamped using Memento Tuxedo Blank and the image was colored using Copic Markers, which I am getting more comfortable using. I don't know who the card is going to be for or what occasion so I left the sentiment off.
*you can click on image to see it enlarged*
Have a great night....
Takes a deep breath...have been super busy. Finally time to update and post my challenge for this week.
Raced around from doctor appointment to doctor appointment...now must have physical therapy.
Then Saturday my daughter, grand daughter and me went tot he Scrapbook/Stamp Show in Somerset, NJ...and it was a blast. Tons of great vendors and classes....and needless to say, did a ton of damage to the charge card. Got some really great new stamps and can't wait to use them.
The challenge for Sweet Dreamers at SplitCoastStampers was to use eyelets...which I didn't have any of but was able to pick up a package at the show. So this is my first attempt as using them...was easy.
I made the card using Neenah White CS, then Black CS and finally a piece of Black and White Striped Cardstock...these were all fastened together with the eyelet. It doesn't show well in the photo but I then stamped four Halloween Inches with Memento Tuxcedo Black and under them stamped using the same Memento Ink the word Halloween. The stamps are from Dimensions Crafts and are really cute. At first I was going to leave it as it is but after taking the photo decided it was too plan so I added a simple black and vanilla bow. I think this will make a perfect Halloween card for a man/boy...not too fussy.
Ok...my first attempt as coloring using Copic Markers...no perfect but not that bad. Found out one thing doing this...I need new glasses, I went out of the lines a few times. Was going for a watercolor/antique feel to the image and pretty pleased with how it turned out. Practice, Practice and practice some more. Need to fix where it didn't stamp the entire R...
Spent the being lazy...sitting around trying to stay cool despite the AC being dead again. Did spend some time cleaning out both computer's which was a huge job as I love to save images that I find online, drinking way too much coffee and have a Pearl Jam Marathon (drools at the site of Eddie Vedder)...so was not a bad day. The AC is fixed, three pots of Starbooks coffee and PJ...what more can you ask for.
As soon as the challenge was posted I knew exactly what stamp I was using and it fit the "no coloring" requirement.
Short story about the stamp. My youngest daughter, much to everyone's dismay, rarely saves cards. Her soon to be husband on the other hand thinks you save every card you receive and he does. He constantly nags her about this with every event that you would send a card for. When my oldest daughter and I saw this stamp in one of the $1 bins at Micheals we both knew I had to have it....and have been waiting for just the perfect occasion...her birthday on Saturday.
The card was basically made from scraps except for the Solar White Neenah Cardstock, a piece of scrap lavendar and scarp polka dot (not sure of what the company was). I stamped is using Blood Red Ink from Rubber Stampede, Tea Leaves Dew Drop and a tiny butterfly stamp (she loves butterflies). Layered and glued. (and yes it was hard to resist not coloring in the butterfly...lol). I'll post her "real" birthday card before Saturday.
This looks larger than it is...as it's more of insert to put into her "real" card and I can't wait to see her face...maybe she'll be forced into saving her cards from now on or we could just stop giving her cards. lol.
Oh a side note...I've never had trouble cutting card stock with my cutter. New blade was put in just a few days ago and I could not get a smooth cut. I used Neenah Cardstock for the first time and a wondering if it's the thickness of the paper or the quality of my cutter. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Now that the place is cooling off I'm going to sew a Market Bag for my grand daughter for school. She loves them much better than a backpack and picked out this great fabric with her Aunt, it's pink, white and black skulls. She loves punk and goth style clothes and looks adorable in them, so this will be perfect. Hope to start selling them soon.
Oh...and a huge thank you to all you steered me in the right directions with my limited photography abilities. I found the perfect spot is either on my dining table or on the ironing board, in front of the sliding glass door....mid afternoon seems to be the perfect time for the lighting issue.
Whew! What a weekend. It just seemed to get away from me. Five days with a 11 year old and a 3 year old...and I am exhausted. By the time Mom came and picked them up last night, it was far to dark to even attempt to photograph my card for Sweet Dreams Challenge. Now we all know by now...my and the camera do not bond, so here is my futile attempt at photographing my card...of course, it looks much better in real life but I must say that after I followed a few tips (thanks to the ladies of Sweet Dreamers) this card did photograph much better than my first card. Think if life allows some free time I am going to play around with the camera and photographing stuff, this week.
Sweet Dreamers Challenge was to create something using a grid, so here's my take on the grid. Not sure why but when I read the challenge it reminded me of the woven Easter baskets we use to make in school, so the card started with that.
Challenge "The Grid".
I started by cutting 1/2 each strips in off white and light tan and woven those to the desired size. I flipped the woven page over and ran strips of carpet tape over the entire back to hold the woven portion together. This was then glued to a light cocoa cardstock, then a large swirl was heat embossed with white/gold embossing powder. The "thank you" was stamped using Memento Tuxcedo Black and a stamp from Micheals. in the corner. The lady was created using my Gocco Printing Machine in black and white and I colored her with Copic Markers (my first attempt using the markers). I love her necklace, it was made using one of the $1 punches from Micheals bin. I put a dot of black in the center of each flower then dabbed clear glitter glue in the flower center. I use the two papers from the woven section for these.
Hmm..not sure why it photographed the way it did but it makes it appear that the bottom of the card is narrower than that top...must be something that I did and never noticed until I posted it.
Now onto the next challenge....
