Hello Stamplings!
How's your day going? I hope you have/had a Sunday Funday! We're all fine, grateful to make it through another week in good health when so many haven't. Thank you for your good wishes about my mystery allergy attack last week. I'm all better now and still have no idea what set it off.
I'm plugging along with my Christmas cards. In a year where I've basically been a shut-in, you'd think I would have had my 223 cards done by August! Hammy and I talked about it and he reminded me of all the days I sat numbly staring at the TV nursing a wodka. Oh. That explains it.
Kidding, just ki(hic)dding! These are the jokes, fokes.
Onefer
I made this card using a Sizzix embossing folder made for Tim Holtz's Alterations line. After embossing, I painted the snowman using my Sparks "Mermaid Sparkle" paint. Then I lightly stenciled a coupla snowflakes in the corners using my Pebbles Pearlescent Chaking Set that hasn't seen the light of day since the turn of the century. I used aqua fun foam as a mat behind the snowman panel and purple fun foam to die-cut the joy sediment from Lil' Inker. The whole shebang was adhered to a card base and another card got its wings. Sorry. Wrong story.
Challenges
- CAS Christmas Card: Hosted by Trina, she wants non-traditional colours.
- SSS Monday: Happy Holidays.
- Uniko: Sparkle.
This month's Zoom craft session with Lolly and friends focused on using our powdered inks. One of the videos Lolly recommended was this one by Dina Kowal: Watercolour Powder Techniques. After Zooming with my friends, I tried one of Dina's techniques which involved taking an e/f and then scribbling over the raised portion with a white crayon. Then when you apply your Brushos (or other brand), the wax from the white crayon acts as a resist.😲I really love how QACAS and effective this simple technique is!
Hammy added more interest with some schplatters of POSCA white paint and wallah, stop the clock, another card got its wings. Sorry. Can't help it.
Challenges
- Double D: Winter Blues.
- Just Us Girls: Colour Week: purple, navy, green.
- SSS Wednesday: Christmas.
- TIME OUT: Quick.
My fun and lovely DIL Rachel sent me a coupla 2020 funnies. Enjoy!
And my favorite:
I've given up drinking 'til Christmas.
Bad punctuation.
I've given up. Drinking 'til Christmas.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Americans!🦃I have many things to be thankful for and one of them is your friendship and encouragement. Mwah! 💋
Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy, but keep safe! LITS!*
*Life is too short!
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