Monday, July 8, 2024

UPDATE: Hurricane Hell

 UPDATE AT 10 AM Monday:
We are in Hurricane Hell. The wind gusts are crazy (85mph clocked once). Part of our back fence blew down and now the entire side fence slat by slat, heavy deck cabinets moved 15 feet away from the wall outside with pottery inside crashing and breaking, trees down, power out in neighborhood and 1.2 million in Houston area without power (generator is ON for us and working like a charm, which is why I can update). 
It began gusting hard and raining hard at 4 am, got really bad at 6 am and still going strong even though the winds changed direction a few minutes ago...no lulls at all. With every gust, I think this is the big one. I did get 8 hours of sleep or else I'd go back to bed. Knock wood, our little house is solid and taking it like a champ. Probably another 2-3 hours of this, they say.
Dear Lord, give me strength, the rain has lessened but the wind gusts just won't quit!
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Sunday, July 7, 2024

Flowers for Norma

 Hello again this Sunday!
Well, the storm keeps moving faster than they thought, plus it looks like it's gonna go right up through the west side of Houston. We are still on the dirty side of it, but hoping the winds won't be horrible. Neither this storm or the one we had a few weeks ago (Alberto, the Derecho storm) have worked out like the forecasts predicted and people online are questioning/blaming the use of AI in forecasting. It's a Brave New World everywhere one turns. I suspect we're all guinea pigs and lab rats for any number of things and just don't know it. 
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UPDATE AT 9:30 AM Monday -- We are in Hurricane Hell. The wind gusts are crazy (85mph clocked once). Part of our back fence blew down, heavy deck cabinets moved 15 feet away from the wall outside with pottery inside crashing and breaking, trees down, power out in neighborhood and 1.2 million in Houston area without power (generator is ON for us and working like a charm, which is why I can update). It began at 4 am, got really bad at 6 am and still going strong even though the winds changed direction a few minutes ago...no lulls at all. With every gust, I think this is the big one. I did get 8 hours of sleep or else I'd go back to bed. Knock wood, our little house is solid and taking it like a champ. Ok, back to our regularly scheduled post!
So, I spent the afternoon making this tag.
I used a square coaster as the base and painted it with yellow ochre acrylic paint.
I raided my little paper flower drawers and my bits and bobs of die cut waste/leftovers.
The dark blue die cuts at the corners is waste from a Spellbinders lattice cover plate.
The little turquoise flowers are a Rubbernecker die.
And I pulled out the rhinestones, too.
The image has been colorized from a black and white photo. 
It's a publicity still from the 1931 film, A Free Soul starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. Go HERE and HERE for thoughtful reviews, if you are interested.
An angled shot to show all the rhinestones catching the light.
 Thanks for the visit today.
Enjoy your evening.
XOX

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CD Sunday Plus Challenge Time!

 Happy Sunday to you!
We will begin getting hit by Hurricane Beryl's outer winds tonight.
I've been watching this storm for over a week now and I'm tired of it already, my nerves are kinda shot. It will be a rough 18-24 hours and I wish I could just sleep through it, lol.
Hmmm, maybe I will try.
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Time for Challenge #137 at CD Sunday Plus and my teamie Jocelyn is hosting.
The challenge is fortnightly beginning every other Sunday and ending the Saturday before the next challenge.
You must use a CD, USB or Digital image somewhere on your make, which must be a physical creation. And please tell us the image source. Complete rules are listed on the challenge blog sidebar.
My inspiration make is a birthday card for my cousin-in-law. They live in Michigan, so I'm hoping this summery scene looks at least a little familiar to him.
I dry embossed a piece of green shimmery cardstock with an Altenew leafy embossing folder and layered that onto a 6X6 blue shimmer cardstock base.
I added some brown velvet ribbon across the middle of the front.
Then I printed out the Digital File Graphics Etsy 5 Mountain Lakes image on photo paper, fussy cut it and adhered it to a large wheat-colored card stock circle made with my Coluzzle tool.
Then out of white card I cut the grass die and the canoe die, colored them with Promarkers and arranged to adhere to my little scene. I stamped an MFT sentiment on a scrap of kraft, trimmed it down and out lined it with a white gel pen before adhering it with a dimensional strip.
 
The back and inside of the card.
I found a piece of very old designer card stock with a masculine look for the back along with a stamped and punched siggie.
Inside, I added a sentiment printed on light green paper that I composed in PSE.
And final view.
Come play with us at CD Sunday Plus Challenge if you get the chance!
Have a wonderful Sunday however you spend it and thanks for visiting.
XOX

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I love green and blue as a color combo because it's calming, peaceful and cool.
I am a Pisces and gravitate towards those and blue-purples.
The water, the browns, blues and the greens
Uzbekistan
 
Christmas Or Not Bingo July-August #8
Column I: Embossing(Dry) / Free / Ribbon
Column N: Masculine / Free / Teal
The Dancing Dingie, Europa Park, Germany
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Thursday, July 4, 2024

Time for Pattie's Creations Design Challenge #220

 Hello and happy first Friday of July.
That means it's time for a new challenge #220 at Pattie's Creations Design Challenge!
She provides a new freebie digi for you every month, but you can use any stamped image.
Go to the link I provided for the complete challenge rules.
And here is my inspiration make, using Pattie's Hang Thirty digi.
This is going to my nephew for his 30th birthday.
In PSE, I added the text to the surfboards and above and below them before printing out and coloring the image with Promarkers in summery colors.
 
I chose this Splitcoaststampers sketch for my A7 layout design.
I added a sun and clouds to the top using Lawn Fawn dies cut from white card. The sun is colored with yellow Promarkers. I also added a striped ribbon from my stash.
 
Inside, a punny sentiment I composed and framed in PSE and printed out.
On back, I used Cosmo Cricket TV Dinner collection designer paper.
It lookes like surfboards to me and the colors complement the front.
I added a strip leftover from cutting the Kraft card base and a stamped and punched siggie.
Angled shot to show the little flowers I die cut using one of the TH Sizzix Tropical Thinlit dies and their centers dotted with Viva Decor Pearl Paint Pens.
I needed a little something white to balance the white cloud at top and I don't think they hurt a masculine card too much.
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Thanks for the visit today
Come join us in the challenge.
XOX

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Sand, Beach, Sun, Tropical inspiration
Typhoon Lagoon, Cabana Bay
Column O: Free / Rectangle / Digital Image
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Weekly 4X6 Art

 Happy 4th of July to all of you who celebrate it.
We're pigging out later today on hot dogs, potato salad, cucumber salad and strawberry cheese cake for dessert.
Then watching fireworks after dark.
This week's challenge for me was to combine spectacles, sewing and something based on a book.
Spectacles made me think of Heidegger's Glasses by Thaisa Frank.
It's what I call Fantasy Fiction set in a real historical time.
You can read a thoughtful review of it HERE.
And the author's own thoughts HERE
I began with a 4x6 card that I'd previously painted black with acrylic paint.
With Versamark ink, I stamped the cross stitches at top and bottom, then heat embossed them with silver ep.
I stamped numbers on each long side and heat embossed them as well.
Next, using white card I cut the dies for the Star of David and the man's face and clothes.
I colored the glass lenses and the Star with gold Wink of Stella liquid glitter.
I drew stitching on the Star with a black Posca paint pen.
Then I used the Star to position stamping the zipper teeth and the pen nibs, which I also heat embossed.
Here's a close up of the pen nibs.
I adhered the Star and the face/clothes die cuts with glue, then started creating my journaling.
On 2 scraps of white card, I laid down a rough black space on each with a Promarker and then with silver and gold Posca paints pens I hand wrote the title and author to adhere to my piece.
Beside the Star, I added a by-line type very brief description in my own hand.
And done!
Now I have a page to remember this book by.
I thank you for the visit today and hope you are enjoying your week!
XOX

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I made this for me, for my 4X6 art journal
I'm a fan of black and white with metallic accents (silver and gold here).
It's very appropriate for the subject matter of my art journaling.
Reading is one of my hobbies!
I used dies for the man's face and clothes and Star of David.
The eyeglass lenses and the Star of David are colored with Wind of Stella liquid glitter.
Black and white pirate flag!
There be some GOLD and SILVER under it YARrrr!
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