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Friday, December 18, 2009
Cat Haiku: So you call this thing your "cat carrier"... I call these my "blades of death".
Another Cuttlebugged card... kids got me folders for Christmas. This machine is the best thing since sliced bread or chocolate cake!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Last one for today... background is the Cuttlebug music folder. Butterfly stamp is embossed in gold, and the faux brads are just flowers punched and indented in the middle.
Backgound here was stamped in clear pigment ink (VersaMark) and then swiped over with chalk. ThankYou is embossed in Gold ep.
This one is stamped with clear pigment ink and and embossed with white ep then watercolored.
This card uses a wallpaper background and some sheer ribbon. The tag is made by using a stencil and dry embossing with a lightbox. Then cut out and the message stamped and embossed onto it.
This one uses the Dotted Swiss folder and a penscore block. Take the block, heat with heat tool and lay over the folder. Ink the block, stamp it and you have the opposite of your folder, and a nice background...in this case, the darker blue.
This one wasn't done with the Cuttlebug, but used the Bubble technique. Colored ink in water with a bit of detergent. Blow into the solution with a straw and lay your paper over. Lift off carefully and dry.
You can hardly see them, but there are teeny violet beads sewn to the centers of the flowers. Ths flowers here were stencils embossed with a lightbox.
This card was done with the Snowflake folder. My good friend Carolyn sent me an extra she had :-)
Arrived in Port A last week. So far have been in a craft fair, volunteered to sub for music at church, and made a lot of cards trying to use up scraps :-) Weather was nice 2 days, but otherwise has been overcast,cool and windy weather. Good for chicken soup and card making!
"Art in My Garbage" is a favorite theme I deamed up. All that "stuff" in the trash-bin surely has another life as an "art supply" - Yesterday the discovery was date pits ;-D They scrub up well, have a nice rustic, "woody" look and make great beads when drilled with a fine dremel bit. Have also just discovered "sea beans", along with the lovely shells on the Texas beaches. The teeniest bit of baby oil shines them up nice. Avocados, apple seeds, prune pits, etc. can all be used as well. http://www.beachbeans.com/bean_descriptions.html
Inspiration
Hoping to share inspiration with thosewho visit. “Art is in the doing. It isn’t important how it turns out. The process is where the pleasure, the learning and the experience take place. A day without some sort of creative endeavor is a wasted day.” Myrna Wacknov
Call of the Wild was a page created for a Traveling Journal while a member on an altered book site. The book is gone, but at least I have photos of the art created. This is a combination of stamping, collage and freehand.
ok...cat lover here. Why is it that cats, stamps and computers just "go" together?! AmberJo is our rescued Texas kitty. They say a cat chooses you and she sure did. Here's the little dickens.