A New Die!

It’s snowing again! I thought it might miss us today but around 7:00 pm it started again. Hopefully it will not amount to too much. It’s been quite a week here. Joe is still on the disabled list – very stiff back – walks like a board and has trouble getting on and off anything low; my sister that lives a couple blocks away is sick….I took her some milk and bread that she needed but pretty much dropped it off and left….with her blessing….so I didn’t catch it. One light in the basement broke so it took a couple trips to the hardware store to get it fixed – first trip to get the part that broke it more and then back to get a new one altogether – and our kind neighbour came and did the wiring for us and reluctantly accepted a small payment for replacing it. In between I’ve been quilting. It’s been too cold in the lower studio (aka the basement) to sit and do scrapbooking or card making.

Today I did receive a very nice surprise. My cousin in Chicago, IL gifted me with the 23AndMe kit to check out my lineage. So cool. We know we are part Mohawk Indian from the Six Nations and English but who knows what else is mixed in there. When people used to ask me what nationality I was I would say, “Heinz 57”….some people thought it was funny; some didn’t get it at all.  Yes, I have a warped sense of humour!

Last week our local scrapbook store, The Paper Pickle, had 25% off all dies…..yup, treated myself again. I picked up one of those die sets that just cuts out the corner of the card. They did not have the one I wanted the most, but this one is pretty good too. Here’s the first card I made with it.

 

I took a piece of that beige cardstock with a blotchy tone-on-tone pattern and die cut the corner. I didn’t have any real plan in mind. I was pretty much just checking out how it cut. I laid it one top of that rusty cardstock and really liked it. So then I took that Memory Box die that cuts each flower petal separately and die cut the flower out of the rust and then the beige cardstock. I taped the back of the beige behind where the flower petals would go so when I laid the rust petals back down, they stayed in place. I’ve tried several ways to do this and this works the best for me. Then I die cut the stem and leaves out of green and glued them on. It just needed a simple sentiment so a peel-and-stick worked just fine. Once I liked how it looked it was glued to the standard card base.

That’s all for a now-snowy Friday, 2017-03-17. Have a wonderful, safe and creative weekend everyone.

Cheers

Violet

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