Monday, October 8, 2018

A New to Me Stamp


        Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian readers and Happy Monday to all the rest! This was a cold and wet thanksgiving weekend until day which was so hot it felt like summer again. We didn’t do much all weekend because Joe bent over to put the bicycle carrier down and put his back out last Wednesday……. and he was just starting to feel better today…..and decided he absolutely had to cut the grass today…..grrrrr….someone’s back is a little stiff and sore again. Men!

        I forgot to post a card on Friday; remembered on Saturday that I hadn’t posted; picked a card out to post; got interrupted and never got it done. So now its Monday so here’s the card.




        This image is a retired Stampin’ Up stamp. The set belonged to a card making friend and she was clearing out ones she didn’t want anymore so I bought it from her.  It was stamped on white cardstock and coloured with pencils and blended with gamsol….still my favourite way of colouring images….although I just finished doing some flowers using water colour pencils and I liked how they turned out too…..those have not been made into cards yet.

        Anyway, back to this card. The sky was splattered using a blue alcohol marker and one of those bulbs that you squeeze to disperse the ink. It doesn’t seem to work well with Tombow markers but the alcohol inks work well. I just wanted a different look – sort of looks like rain a bit.

        The background paper is from the stash and was glued together with a die cut paper rope hiding the seam. The sentiment was stamped on a punched oval and the edges were inked in red. It was glued to the bold hand cut banner.  

        That’s all for a lovely Monday, October 8, 2018.

Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes take a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.








1 comment:

  1. HI Violet!!

    First thing i noticed.. i love the way the circles on the background mimic the round potatoes! Beautiful card! Its been warm and humid here.. yuck.. BUT we have rain coming thru this evening and with it comes cooler weather... thank goodness.. I'm soooo ready! I'm tired of this soupy weather.. Hugs! deb

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