By the way, on Saturday and Sunday it was so mild everything
started melting which made a huge mess. Joe and I seldom ever get groceries on
a Saturday anymore but we decided we better brave it and go seeing as the “storm
of the year” was coming Sunday afternoon. Yikes! What a madhouse the grocery
stores were…worse than the USA Black Friday and the Canadian Boxing Day sales.
But, on the upside we are well supplied.
I thought last week that I would get out of the winter blues
by making some spring and summer cards. This is the first time I’ve used this Stamping Bella stamp. It’s hard to make cards for
boys so when I see a stamp that is just for boys I buy it. I made
two cards, very similar, yet different so I’m posting both of them.
I forgot about my vow to use only left over paper from my
stash and grabbed a new 6x6 paper pack I just bought at the Paper Pickle –
Simple Stories brand called Harvest
Lane . It just looked like it suited a little boy’s
card. I just took two coordinating papers and cut them down and glued them back
together. The images were coloured with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol, the blue sky is chalk and
green Flower Soft was used for the grass. I used the Spellbinder Rectangle dies
to die cut the image and background but I wanted one in between so I just cut a
bit off to make it fit. I did use scraps do make the pieces at the bottom for
the sentiment. I own the Spellbinder Card-Creator set but didn't use it - duh!
I haven’t been down to the “lower studio” yet this morning
but I imagine the basement is too cold for me to sit down there so it will be
the “upper studio” for me for a few days. I have a lot of beading, sewing and quilting
to do so not a problem for me to keep busy.
That’s it for a cold Monday.
Cheers
Violet
Stay warm Violet! We are getting sub zero temps tonight so I predict it will be an ice rink outside tomorrow, my 3 kids all have their yearly well-child checkups tomorrow am so I am hoping the roads are good, I book appointments a year ahead so I can get them back to back so I hate to cancel. The boy cards are cute and so cheerful! With the 50 degree rainy day we had I was comfy in my studio sans space heater! I decided to put all of my colored pencils back in tins so I could a=haul them upstairs to color in comfort by the fire tho LOL, it's a rough life right LOL! Stay warm!
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