Paper-Paisleys Art Adventures: February 23rd Weekly Post

Hiya, hope your weekend's been nice.

My week must have been better because I've managed to post on time.

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I've spent the week making a stab at organizing my stamps.

I've bought quite a few in the past couple of years, but I hadn't integrated them into my storage and cataloguing "system" of themes. This entails breaking up the sets and adding leaves to Flora CD cases, people to People cases, etc., stamping the new ones onto the case sheets, scanning the new sheets to my computer files, and on and on. When I look through my stamps, it's on my computer in files that tell me where to go to retrieve that stamp. Think of the old library card catalog system and it's similar. (My first part-time jobs in school were at libraries, so that seems appropriate to me, lol.)

It gave me a break from creating, which I do need from time to time.

I now have boxes for each theme with various stamps broken up from sets in them and waiting to be added to storage cases.

At any rate, I got quite a bit done, but lots more to go.

Rein is our Sunday Postcard Art hostess this week for the theme of Childhood Heroes.

I went full-on digital and will print this out for my 4X6 Art journal.

This took me a while to figure out, and eventually I had to be honest with myself. My first real childhood hero was Eloise. My dad had bought the first 4 books by author Kay Thompson and illustrator Hilary Knight and read them to me over and over because I couldn't get enough of this fictional character. My favorite was Eloise's daily life at the Plaza Hotel on the "tippy top floor" with her nanny, pug dog and turtle. Eloise, who was 6, was very precocious and loved hanging out with people who weren't boring. I'm pretty sure this was how I developed the same lifelong desire. Eloise was NOT the See-Dick-and-Jane-and-Spot type of conforming, neat, polite child. No, she was unruly, impertinent and totally original, but with a good heart and sensibilities. I loved her dearly.
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This card is made from a Katy Sue Designs 3D Decoupage kit and a Sweet N Sassy sentiment stamped with Strawberry Versafine Clair ink and clear heat embossed. I think that's Prima dotted designer paper and an SU card base.

And the sketch I used.

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This card was made using the Craft Consortium Sandy Paws 3D Decoupage kit.

I added an Impression Obsession sentiment die and a Spellbinder heart photo corner die cut with white card. Then I added an Avery Elle red heart die cut from stash on top of the corner heart - perfect fit. The designer paper is Colorbok, Rocket Red Wausau for the mats and the Clearly Besotted sentiment on the focal was stamped with Strawberry Versafine Clair ink.