February 5th Weekly Post

 Hey, Everybody!

Hope all is well with you and yours.

Today's a big day for us, closing day on our new home this afternoon.

38 days went by quickly!

(Our realtor was released from rehab and is doing well.)

Prayers appreciated for a great outcome!

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Michele is hosting this week at Sunday Postcard Art with the theme of GEOMETRY.

I decided that this was the time to finally use my 8X10-inch Stamperia stencil about spirals.

I began by stenciling on letter-sized cardstock using Kitsch Flamingo, Twisted Citron, Rustic Wilderness and Prize Ribbon Distress Oxides. After it dried good, I scanned it into PSE, cropped and resized it down to postcard size, put a frame around it and then played to saturate the colors just a bit.

The stencil reads "In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving further away as it revolves around the point."

Is a Spiral a geometric shape? YES.

This video will tell you more than you ever wanted to know!

Is A Spiral A Geometric Shape? - Graphic Design Nerd

Michele loves Geometry and I love Michele, so I am doing it up right for her!

(And since I'm a notorious lower-level math nerd, I am more than happy to oblige.)

💜

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I made this birthday card for a lifelong girlfriend - we met in second grade.

She and my dad became friends later on in his life. He'd go to our mall to JC Penney where she was a manager, and she would shop with him, quickly becoming his personal shopper. They became quite close, which made me very happy because I love her like a sister anyway. Now she's retired and is her mom's caretaker. I cherish my lifelong friends so much!

To make this card, I used a Stamplorations sentiment die, a Crafters Companion floral stamp and die (colored with Promarkers), an Avery Elle signature die and the stamped sentiments that came with the floral stamp. The card base and strips are pink SU and the dp is KI Memories with punched corners. The sentiments were stamped with Versamark and heat-embossed using green tinsel powder. I used a green metallic gel pen to accent the seal dies and the stamped sentiment. I added a pink glitter foam heart to finish.

  

Here's the sketch I used. I stretched it an A9 size.

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I made this mixed media birthday card for one of my sisters-in-law.

This is a photo of the stamp set I used, a Katie Pertiet collab between Sizzix and 49&Market. It also included a die which I used for the floral. It's basically got a silhouette stamp and an outline stamp of the same floral. First time to use as I'd bought it recently. And I didn't really know which one I wanted so I stamped both of them using Lost Shadow DOX ink and clear embossing powder. I painted the outline one with my watercolors. For the silhouette one, I colored the stamp with Tombow markers, misted with water, stamped and then die cut both. I layered one on the other for the card front.

I used an SU card base, Kraft mats and K&Co. designer papers. I had yellow glitter off cuts from a Spellbinders die that I tucked under in 2 places. The dp has metallic foil and glitter on it, so to stamp my Hero Arts sentiment I used Versamark and blue tinsel embossing powder to match the little blue butterfly on the paper. The die cut label was ink-distressed with DI on the raised embossing and is a Cuttlebug embossable die. All papers were also ink-distressed as well, with Brushed Corduroy DI. 

  

And the sketch I used, stretching it to A9 size.

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That's it for me this time.

I hope the rest of your week goes well and a good weekend is in store.

Until next week,

XOXOX