October 20th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

We've had a wonderfully cooler week and my hip/lower back pain has lessened to an ache, just in time for my cedar allergy. Waking up and not being able to open my eyes immediately is unsettling, as is the itching and blurring vision from all the discharge, but my drops do help some. I should probably try putting them in right before bed. 

LOL, I already have a bedtime list of to-do's a mile long, why not add one more?

Getting old's not for sissies!

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I made some 4X6 art for SPA's Gears theme, hosted by Anne this week.

I decided to go a bit British with this one, borrowing phrases and national colors.

I stamped sentiments from 2 Artistic Outpost sets with Midnight VF Clair ink, then clear heat embossed them.

Next, I laid down Tim's Gears layering stencil upside down and centered. I used Fired Brick Distress ink and a foam blending tool to stencil on the design. 

After that dried, I used a white colored pencil around the Keep Calm phrase to help it stand out more. I colored around the stenciling on the sides and bottom with a Tarnished Brass Distress Crayon and then edge-distressed the piece with more of the Midnight VF Clair and a foam tool. I also used a Chipped Sapphire Distress Marker around the stenciling. It looks like the stenciling is layered on gold card, but it's all one layer.

Then I used a scrap of gold paper to die cut the corner gear element and 3 small gears from Tim's Gearheads Thinlits die set. I also cut a crown from Lawn Fawns Hats Off die set.

I glued the dies down and done!

One more page for my 4X6 journal album.

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Here's a birthday card I mailed off in July to a niece.

I used Craft Consortium's 3D decoupage kit Sandy Paws by Helz Cuppleditch for the focal image and Basic Grey Cupcake designer papers on a Rocket Red Wausau paper mat and white 6X6 card base.

The sentiment is from a die set by Crafters Companion that I cut from some blue scrap card and once adhered, I outlined the words with a Micron pen and added a little red heart from stash.

Here's the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used for my layout design.

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And here is a Christmas card I made using very old 12X12 Junkitz snowman designer paper and 2 chiboard frames I needed to use.I used a Spellbinders die to cut the diamonds from Xmas stash scraps, and layered 3 different die cut snowflakes in the center (QK and Sizzix). I added punched snowflakes randomly and a Stamplorations Let It Snow sentiment die cut 3 times from greens and white card. 

And the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used for my layout design.

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That's all for me today.

Thanks for the visit

and

hope to see you next Sunday!

XOX