Aqua Card Number Two

 The above average temperatures have left us. Now we have rain and its getting cooler by the moment. Earlier today it was 27C (80F) but tomorrow it will be a high of 6C (42F). That’s quite a drop in temperature!

Today I spent most of the time cutting out fabric for two more charity quilts. I can sew the blocks together but I don’t have a design wall. Instead I have a design floor. I lay the blocks out on the rug in the rec room and just pick them up row by row. Joe is used to stepping around the blocks until I get them sewn together. But my hip is not happy with me crawling around on the floor so its just quilt blocks for now.

 But, I’m also making cards. Here is Aqua card number 2.

                                               

I started out making very simple cards. The 6” pieces of designer paper, which was very good quality, was simply cut to 5.25 x 4 to fit on the standard A2 card base. There was only one strip of the butterfly print that I used on the last card I posted, but there was one sheet that was all butterflies. I cut one strip off and mounted it on gold and glued it to the left side of the card. I had a package of butterflies from the dollar store that were also Aqua, so I took one of them and added gold around the edges and body and antennae by drawing thin lines with a VersaMark pen and then heat setting it with gold embossing powder. The trail from the butterfly was heat set in the same gold embossing powder after stamping it with VersaMark using the trail of an old Inkadinkado butterfly stamp. Then the butterfly was glued on.

 The sentiment is a gold peel-off that was on a punched light Aqua cardstock. Then I punched another oval using the same punch out of a piece of the same designer paper as in the card and cut it in half. When I glued the lighter piece on the darker piece, it looks like two different sizes of ovals because just the ends show the darker paper. I glued a piece of left over cardstock between the cut halves of the darker oval so it would lay flat.

  That’s all for a rainy and cool Sunday, April 16, 2023.4.16

 

Cheers

Violet

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

 

 

A Butterfly Card

     Hard to believe that we just had the coldest weather I can ever remember just over a week ago because today it was 10C (50F) but so much rain we are now under a rain/flood warning. The odd weather pattern continues in 2023.

    Today I’m posting another card that I created just playing around with some left over strips.

                                       
    I had those two outside pieces left over from cutting two 6” pieces of paper from a paper pack down to the normal A2 size. I have a tendency to do that and just toss the extras to one side ‘to be used later’ …. and sometimes its much, much later.  So, I found yet another piece that sort of but not exactly matched and placed it in the centre. Not bad but they all needed to be more connected.

    So out came the Distress Inks and I sponged some colours around on the middle piece and some, but less, on the outside pieces until I felt they looked good together. Water was splattered on the middle piece and then blotted off to leave those lovely white spots. I used a small printed word stamp to add some more interest to the background and that too, connected the three pieces.They were taped together at the back and then a gold peel-off strip was added down the seams on the front.

I wanted to use that large pink butterfly (dollar store find) but the background just needed a little more of something. So, I started doodling with a black, thin marker and drew a few squiggly lines in a sort of circle where the the butterfly was going to sit making sure I included all three pieces; then drew some designs in some of the places or added ‘x’s. Once the butterfly was glued on I patiently picked up some left over black peel-off bits to make a butterfly trail. The sentiment is a black peel-off. I was going to stamp it but didn’t want to chance messing it up. It was then mounted on a rusty brown card base. It’s different than I usually do but I want to break out of my comfort zone this year and try new techniques.

    That’s all for a mild but wet Wednesday, January 4, 2023.

OH: the burnt hand. I was carrying boiling hot, watery soup from the microwave to the counter and the lid started to fall off and somehow I managed to spill the hot soup all over the left hand. 1st and 2nd degree burns. Still healing after 16 days. 

 Cheers

Violet

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

 

 

 

 

A Butterfly Card and More

    

Before I post today's post, I will answer the question from the last post about the hi-lites on the people. Sorry, I should have thought to include that. All I did was use a dauber and picked up some white pigment ink, took a bit off rubbing on a piece of scratch paper, and then going on the edges of the people before gluing them down. 

Well, hopefully the computer will keep working long enough to get a post published! I’m not sure what’s wrong with it but likely just old and cranky, much like its owner…. or maybe it hates the cold weather, also much like its owner. We have a dusting of snow but nothing like parts of N.Y. and some parts of Ontario. Yikes, six feet of snow? Unbelievable. Earlier this week Joe looked out the front window and laughed. He said, one neighbour was cutting his grass and the next-door neighbour was gassing up his snowblower. Yup, the unpredictable Ontario weather. You must be prepared for anything and everything.

Today I’m posting a butterfly card - nothing special, just a card but after than I’m posting how I converted a butterfly cutout I would never use into three I will use. Three from one? Yes, keep on scrolling.

                      
    Like I said, this card isn’t all that special, nice as it is. It’s just the basic layering of some printed paper and adding a butterfly and peel-off sentiment. That butterfly came from a package of butterflies that I bought at the dollar store. But there were 2 in each package (okay, I bought four packages) that were about 6” in size. Scroll down to see what I did with them.

                         
                That large butterfly on the left is one of the ones that measure about 6”, which is way too big to fit on a card and I didn’t think I would even put it on a scrapbook page. I didn’t want to waste them though. So, after thinking about it for a few days…and getting annoyed seeing them every time I pull out a small butterfly, I decided to reduce the size of it.

    The three butterflies on the right were actually die cut from that large butterfly. (ignore the odd colouring, bad lighting)   First I cut the butterfly down each side beside the body an discarded the body and taped the two pieces together at the back. I used an old Memory Box die and die cut the butterfly shown on the top, right side. Then I did the same thing to die cut the bottom part of the butterfly to get the middle butterfly. There was still some of it left but not enough for the same die, so I pulled out a smaller butterfly die. After cutting a straight line between two matching halves and taping them together I got that small butterfly. Now, I will likely add some glitter or embossed gold to them, but they are now a workable size. So don’t be afraid to reconstruct your craft pieces.

That’s all for a very cold and windy Sunday, November 20, 2022.

 

Cheers

Violet

 

 

 

 

Quick and Easy, but not Boring.

 It’s above freezing and all the ice and snow is melting. I was actually hot with a winter coat on walking today. Tonight we will start receiving a predicted record breaking rain storm. It may rain starting overnight and not quit until tomorrow night because it could be close to 50F tomorrow. But Mother Nature is cruel and we will be back to below freezing temperatures and snow on Thursday. Typical February weather.

 Today’s card would qualify for quick and easy - but that doesn’t mean boring.

                              
I’m once again trying to use up left over pieces of paper and cardstock. I found this striped piece of heavy paper and went searching for a sold piece to go with it and found that hot pink…perfect! I have a die that die cuts that fancy edge on an angle and used that. The hello sentiment was die cut from the left over piece of hot pink and glued on, on an angle. Then it needed something else. I really should try to make all these decisions before starting but I never do. My mother used to say I flew by the seat of my pants and I guess I still do. There was a large piece of the striped paper left over so I die cut that fancy butterfly from it but when I placed it on the hot pink I just didn’t like it. So I sponged some glue over the top of it and sprinkled on very fine glitter from Stampin’ Up. Much nicer. The striped paper is barely visible through the glitter but in person, it makes a nice pattern. Not sure you can see it in the photo. It was then glued to a standard white card base. So it was quick and easy but I liked how it turned out.

That’s all for a very mild Monday, February 21, 2022.

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 takes a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.