March 27th Weekly Post

 Helloooo! (Or, should I say Hellurrrr, for any Madea/Tyler Perry fans? heehee)

Oy!

This week has been somewhat brutal for me physically. Wrapping china and glass within an inch of their lives, filling and labelling into boxes, taking boxes to the new house (thankfully downstairs), unwrapping and filling shelves in the butler pantry, up and down a rickety ladder. Again and again. Flattening out the used wrapping paper and bubble wrap and rinse and repeat.

Well, I have apparently 'pulled something' in my back Wednesday, right inside my left shoulder blade between that and my spine. The pain has settled there and on up to my neck. So we took yesterday off and I relaxed by making a postcard for this week's SPA. But this morning I woke with my fumble fingers on both hands swollen to the hilt. My ankles and feet are fine, just my fingers. I remembered that one of my rheumatologists told me that a pinched nerve can cause finger/hand swelling, so that talked me down off the crazy ledge, because I was starting to get worried. I can still type, so I decided to make a post while waiting for Honey to wake up so he can Ben-Gay my back.

The theme at Sunday Postcard Art this week is Spring and is hosted by Sarah. 

I used one of my 4x6 pre-cut torn-edge watercolor cards, got out some very old Fontwerks alpha stamps designed by Elsie Flannigan (anyone remember her from like 2009?) called Happy Corina:

Anyway, I stamped Happy Spring using these alpha stamps, heat-embossed and then I also stamped and heat-embossed a Kimberly Poloson for Fiskars border at top and bottom. I used green VF-Clair ink and clear powder for that. Then, I got out my watercolors, painted the background bright yellow. I found two big and little flower stamps and with VF-Clair pink and purple ink I stamped them all around the card. I got out my Posca paint pens, made little blue blossoms on the border and filled in the letters with various paint colors. I added some glittery centers with a Sakura gel pen and then used a fat chisel point turquoise Posca around the perimeter to color the outside edge of the card. And done! Not really complicated or hard at all, just made it to play and participate.

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My online friend Alyson had her birthday on the 21st and this is what I sent her.

I used Avery Elle's Red and Goldie stamp set for the Red Riding Hood characters and the sentiment, stamping with Nocturne VF-Clair ink and heat-embossing with clear powder. I fussy cut Red and Fox then colored with Promarkers. I created a background for them with DOX ink and a Memory Box stencil after cutting the pieces out of white card and green dotted Lawn Fawn card using a Lawn Fawn polaroid frame die. The rest of the designer papers are Pink Paislee Old School collection. I die cut them using The Stamps of Life stitched rectangle dies (and the plaid strip was cut using an LDRS stitched strip die). White Recollections card base. I really liked how this came out. Using coordinated dies for the stitching effect helped the look, I think. 

Happy Birthday, Dear Friend!

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Well, that does it for me this time.

Off to stretch real good and back to work packing boxes!

😝💩😛

Thanks so much for the visit and your patience during these moving months!

Seeya next time!

XOXOX