Hey there, everybody!
Hope everyone survived their weather this week.
Ours was Faux Spring complete with skeeters.
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Can you believe this is the first moment I've had to post?
Things are getting crazy here with all the packing, so I'll keep this short and sweet.
I immediately had this picture in my head using my Pink Persimmon tea set stamps and my Cornish Heritage Farms cake on platter stamp and Tea stamp. In my head, things are grouped and there's more plates and such, but I didn't have the time for all that entailed so I lined 'em up instead and it shall have to do. I think the Sympathy stamp is Clear Dollar, not sure. The tablecloth border stamp is Crafty Secrets. Everything else is (lamely) drawn, and quickly. I colored with mostly my watercolor paints and stamping was with Versafine Clair inks. The pleats and the table were done with a Polychromos pencil and the dark chocolatey inside cake layers were colored with a Promarker. I used a green Sakura Stardust gel pen on the stamped tablecloth border and the word Tea. I used a pink gel pen on the teapot and cups. The title was a sort of a play on words with the phrase Tea and Sympathy. I changed it a bit, just a tad.
The base is 4x6 pre-cut torn-edge 300gsm watercolor paper. I bought 100 of them on Amazon last year. I'd also bought 100 pre-cut 4x6 card stock blanks from CutCardstock but I've only a few left. So I'll probably be using the watercolor ones more from now on. It's good paper, warps a bit but flattens out.
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Here's a card I made for a brother-in-law who turned 70. The hot phrase is "you turned 20 in the 70's and now you're 70 in the 20's." So I made that the inside sentiment and that's why I chose this Dr. Digi hippie dude for the card front. I printed him out on white card stock and die cut him using one of my arch dies. Same die set for the sentiment mat and HB die cut. Little peace sign stamp and a bigger die cut add to the details on Ciao Bella and Cosmo Cricket designer papers. SU card stock base. Oh, I used Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed Distress Inks to ink the white card stock pieces after they were die cut, using a small stencil brush.
My sister-in-law repeated my entire inside sentiment word for word on her Facebook post to him, so I think they both liked it! lol
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Another guy card, this time for a neighbor and high school classmate who turned 71 and I felt the urge to go A9 half sheet size. The MFT die cut sentiment took some time but the paper layering was easy. I printed out a front and back pair of images from Bow Arts Etsy and framed them both in blue. I die cut the sentiment twice out of the same SU orange card stock as the card base. Then I layered them with glue, let it dry, then went to town with my white gel pen (because just the orange got lost and now the white makes it pop). I also dotted around some of the trees to put more white for the eye to move around to. I also filled the die cut's flower centers with Viva Decor Pearl Paint Pens. Done!
And the sketch I used.
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That's all from me this time.
I hope everyone gets good weather for the weekend.
Tomorrow (Saturday) is my 70th birthday!
Smashburgers and tot crowns, chocolate cake and
from Dear Daughter, this beautiful orchid to enjoy before I somehow kill it.
This isn't the first orchid she has sent me. I've come to consider them like cut flowers, lol. I'm hopeless and Honey surprisingly isn't any better with them. The instructions say feed it an ice cube a week (check!) put under direct light (check!) and keep away from drafts (do ceiling fans count?).
Then, I received a card from her in today's mail with a gift card. Gifts from my child always makes me feel extra special!
Til next time,
XOX
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