My cousin Rhonda's birthday is on the fourth of July, so I made this card for her.
This is a single-layer A2 card. I used Hero Arts Stars and Stripes stamps for the stripe across the bottom. I added a border digitally so the edges of the card can be seen. I scan in my cards, for the most part, and the white doesn't show up well on a white background while constructing this blog post.
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Well, shortly after my last post, I went into the hospital with a partial blockage of my small intestine. After removing about a meter of my small intestine, I was mending until the early part of 2020. I had home health care for my wound, which finally healed. It makes me look like I have a butt on my front belly, but I deal.
So, maybe I'm back.
I have been dealing with some depression. I don't know if it's the Covid-thing and being cooped up or not. I'm pretty much a homebody, so I don't think that's it. Anyway, I have a call out to the psychiatric nurse practitioner who is going to call me on Friday. I'll see if she has any suggestions.
I have visited my craft room, but I haven't made much...nothing I'm going to post on this entry along with my butt-belly. So...check out the next post, because it's ready now.
I've made some changes. My desk is rather clear, and it's because I am re-evaluating the kind and number of challenges in which I participate. It isn't easy to pick and choose, because the challenges change weekly, bi-weekly or even monthly. I can't do them all, even though I think I could. I need to take a breather. So, the way for me to do that is to start over. Here's my desk:
This is Tangerine, Tangy for short. I still have a few thing to put away.
This is on the floor to my left while sitting. The box on the left are my collection of adhesives, and the box on the right holds some supplies I was using. Those supplies need to be put in their rightful spot.
This is on the floor to my right. On the left are paper tablets, a scoring tool and my Misti. On the right are packages of papers I need to put away. In the middle are my scraps. The more creative I am, the more and more I fill it, but I also use some scraps -- as long as they're near the top. I really need to go through that!
As I mentioned, there are things that need to be put away. That will take some time. For example, I have to organize all of the dies in order to have them all fit in their space. I think I have way too many, and I'm not sure how I can keep track of what I have. I won't be buying more anytime soon. I also have to box away some stamps, which are quite organized. I hope I don't run out of room in those boxes!
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When the squirrels begin to hide their acorns and the oak tree leaves turn brown, that is when Autumn is here in no uncertain terms. Luckily, we haven't noticed that in our neck of the woods, but it's happening further north, I'm sure. I heard someone in the Twin Cities, MN mention the "S" word. Yep! That's the forecast for the end of this week. Here in southeastern North Carolina, I think we have some time.
Along the left edge of the A2 card blank, I stamped (Hero Arts) the oak leaf in Distress Inks Gathered Twigs. I also stamped (again, Hero Arts) "Autumn" at the bottom. I placed the squirrel, whose parts were die cut (Karen Burniston), right above the sentiment.
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This is also an attempt at coloring a digital stamp. I don't like the way it came out, but I'll try it with colored pencils next time. I think I lack the skills and tools to make it stunning, so I'll settle for just okay this time.
I printed out the digital stamp and colored it in using my markers.
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This is my first experience working with digital stamps. I don't think I color well enough, or have the correct tools, to make them look nice. Next time, instead of using markers, I'll try colored pencils. So, let's consider this an experiment.
I printed out the images making each smaller than the other. Then, I colored them using markers. Next, I stamped the sentiment (Altenew).
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The challenge said to use an object from nature. I did! I used a Maple seed that I had used gold embossing powder on years ago.
This is an A-2 white card blank. I first stamped the Maple leaf (Hero Arts) using Distress Ink Dried Marigold. Then, I lined up the first part of the sentiment (Ellen Hutson) to curl around the seed. Next, I glued the seed down. Finally, I stamped the word "Sparkle" in Versafine Onyx Black.
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