August 31st Weekly Post

 Howdy to y'all and good-bye to August!

Wow, that month flew by.

We've had a wet and humid but cooler weekend.

And the humidity is supposed to be lower for a few days.

I'm currently on a roll with my sleep swapping, so I've been up at night and have really enjoyed the first light of the early mornings. So maybe I can keep it going until the temperature consistently drops a bit.

We have a close family friend whose daughter has a small working farm in north Texas, so I went with that theme for her birthday card.

I used the Sam Colcott cow, flower and sentiment stamps included with Creative Stamping Magazine Issue 117, stamping the cow and flower on the white base card layer. I cut a piece of Farmhouse Market Square designer paper with a Lawn Fawn Speech Bubble Border die to layer over that. I stamped a very old cloud stamp, fussy cut it and stamped the sentiment inside of it. The dotted cloud is a Sassafras Lass stamp and the sun is an ancient D.O.T.S. stamp. I arranged them in a cluster on the designer paper.

I used Promarkers to color the cow, flower, grass, dotted cloud and sun. The A2 base is Kraft card.

And the sketch I used.

I changed the point on the speech bubble to the right to accommodate the die that I used.

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This card is for a workmate of Honey's. We are longtime friends with him and his wife.

On an SU card base, I cut a sheet of Basic Grey Cupcake designer paper as the base layer. Then I found some solid color card scraps to cut the curving horizontal strips using a My Favorite Things Ride the Waves die set and adhered them per the sketch. I stamped and die cut two Avery Elle balloons using Versaine Clair inks. I stamped, heat-embossed and die cut the Art Impressions birthday cake, coloring it with Promarkers and a glitter gel pen. I arranged and adhered them on the right side on the wavy strips. 

And the sketch I used.

I changed the orientation of elements 3-5 because it looked better that way!

😁

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Our son-in-law turned 39 and this was his birthday card.

He liked the play on words with the zebra's hips.

😉

I made a 6x8 card from this sketch.

I first stamped the Pink Ink zebra with Nocturne Versafine Clair ink and clear-heat-embossed it. Then I stamped the zebra again on masking paper and fussy cut that out for a mask. I applied the mask over my stamped image. I drew a diagonal line with a light green colored pencil, applied masking tape to the right of the line and then sponged Twist Citron Distress Ink to make element 2 of the sketch. After that dried, I removed the masking tape and stippled Speckled Egg DI for the sky. Then I used Carved Pumpkin DI to stencil the left border with a Crafters Workshop stencil and wonky dots around the zebra using a Dina Wakley stencil. I removed the zebra's mask and colored him and the grass at his feet with Promarkers. I ran a black marker around my base layer and added two decorative corner notches with a Tonic punch. I adhered the base layer to the card base cut from a 12x12 sheet of Colormates card stock. I stamped the Creative Visions sentiment with VF-Clair ink and heat-embossed them all. I cut them with an Avery Elle signature seal die and then inked three with the DI's I had used. I cut part of the top and bottom one and adhered them all to the card front.

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Well, that all I've got this time.

Thanks so much for visiting me and best wishes for a great first week in September!

XOX