A Little Bit of Crafting!

I used Tombow water colour markers for the cad above (LS Fairy Bells). I inked up the stem with my Versafine Clair Nocturne ink pad first, then used the markers to colour the petals. Thats the only way I know how to colour them. If you know another way, please let me know! What you can't see, is there's some sparkly clear gel pen on the petals, and the Dragonfly.

I used white embossing powder on "Indra" (LS) above. However, after heat setting it, I discovered it is not a good 'white' powder at all. It's more f a vanilla/cream colour. I have since bought a Wow! Bright EP. I have yet to try it. I made the background using my Dinkles, then stamping some faded (LS) words over the background. I also used some Posca pens to draw some dots. Lastly I splattered the card with some gold paint, and added some water splatters. I think I went overboard and did too many! Whoops!

The card above uses2 of the new LS stamps, to make a butterfly. This card is much prettier in real life, sadly the colours are not showing up as the true colours. Those darn laptop gremlins have taken over my laptop:-( 

 I managed to make these 3 cards, in between a short trip back to hospital. Luckily they got things sorted quickly, so I was only there for around 10 hours. The worst part was, my new stamps had just arrived before I was whisked off to hospital. In spite of being very unwell, I just wanted to play with new stamps! It was torture knowing they were at home waiting for me to try them out! I can laugh about it now, but not at the time! On the card above, the frilly bit of the butterfly has ben stamped twice. Once to the left and then again slightly to the right. This makes up the butterfly wings. The head is a separate stamp. Hope that makes sense!  I lightly stenciled the corners of the card. Ok, that's it for me! Thanks for dropping by! Have a SUNSHINE day! Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!

Another Card, and My House Not My Cat, Kind Of!

 Here's another card I made, using the technique in the previous post. They are so quick, and so much fun to make. You can make them with any shaped lid, have you tried this technique. I splattered the card with some brown Dinkles.  To keep the splatters off the Badger, I just placed the stamp over top of the image before I did the splatters. Oh yes, there's a "whoopsie" on here! I stamped the word 'Nature' too close to the Badgers foot. So I inked up the top of the letter "N" in white. Probably not the most creative idea I've ever had, but I couldn't think of anything else to fix it! Oh well!

This is "Wookie". She is not my cat, and she does not live here, kind of.  She belongs to my friends who live behind my place.  Last year she 'left home; and started visiting me. I had met her some time before, but this time she did not want to go home. My friends (who own her) had recently got two little dogs, ad "Wookie" does not like them. She's not scared of them, she just does not like them. She is a little skittish and when the dogs run at her (to play) she runs, which makes the dogs think it is a game. "Wookie" has other ideas. Long story short, I said I was happy to feed her, and that she was welcome here any time.  She does sometimes go "home" to visit her owners, but mostly she is here at my place. "Romeo" (my cat) loves her! 

At her "home" she has a cat door to get in and out when she likes. We don't have a cat door, but as you can see, "Wookie" comes in one of my dining room windows! I have the screen thing on the window so "Romeo" cannot get out. He has health issues and has to be an inside cat. But as you can see, "Wookie" can fit through the screen just fine! There is a large oblong pot planter about 6 inches below the window, and she jumps into there, then pops in through the window! I saw her one day and quickly snapped these photo's!

So, as Andrea said, I have been adopted by "Wookie"! I feed her and her owners drop food and flea treatments over for me to give her. If I didn't feed her, it's quite likely she would wander further afield. At least this way, my friends know she is loved, fed and cared for.  I enjoy her company, as does "Romeo", and they are good company for each other. 

Does anyone remember the "I Can Has Cheeseburger?" cats??! I do! This is "Wookie" doing her best, "I Can Has Cheeseburger" look, at me! And yes, I was eating a cheeseburger at the time, lol! Ever since I came out of hospital, I have had weird food cravings.  Cheese burgers was one, which is really weird because I don't eat take away food like this. It's been about 23 years since I last went to eat at McDonalds, up until recently. Take away food like this would normally make me very unwell, as I cannot tolerate fat/cream etc.

Anyway, I just thought I would introduce "Wookie", and tell you her story! She's about three and is such a sweetheart. She has the cutest purr, and a very tuneful "Mrrrp"!

Thanks for dropping by, have a SUNSHINE day! Remember to always be your authentic self, and shine bright each and every day!

Drama's In Pajama's!

OMG, I've been out of action for the last few weeks.

Unfortunately I have been very unwell, and in and out of hospital multiple times. Not to mention back and forwards to see Doctors. I'm back home again now, and slowly getting back to my usual routine. I am very slow and my vision is a bit blurry, due to the medication I am on. That will settle down over the next few weeks. I had these cards made and ready to post but kept ending up in hospital. On top of that hiccup, they kept loading up in the wrong order this morning, so I had to re-loading them one at a time so they made sense. Frustrating😣.

So here's the firs card, using Lavinia Stamps.

I used LS Multifarious cardstock, and a Distress Oxide stamp pad. I haven't tried this idea on other cardstock, so don't know how it  would work.

So here's what I did....I inked up the LID of the stamp pad...

...then 'stamped' it on the cardstock. Don't worry if the image is a bit patchy, it will be fine! 

I used a very wet paintbrush, and brushed the water UNDER the stamped image, and dragged the water down into the empty space. I  did this going all the way around this inside of the image, making sure the tip of the wet brush just barely touched the inked image. Keep wetting the square, dragging  the water down from the stamped square. The card will get quite wet, so keep the card on  flat surface. If you wet the stamped image from the outside (top) of the image, the ink will run on the outside of the image, which is not what you want. You just barely touch the wet brush under the stamped line.

Once I had done that, I used my Ranger Heat gun to dry the card. I used this because this heat gun is more gentle and doesn't blow the water off the card, as my Milwaukee heat gun does.

So this is what you will end up with. Hard to see in the photo, but the entire inside of the square now has a pale blue colour to it. Use whatever colour ink pad you like.

When you have finished all the above steps, stamp your chosen image inside the square. I also did a very feint bit of stenciling around the image.  Add sparkles if you wish! Then the card  is finished!  I made another one and backed the image onto a piece of black card. This technique is really simple and quick to make! I had heaps of fun making these cards! You can use any lid off any stamp pad to make these "Cubies"! 

These last two cards I made using a 6 inch square gel press. I inked the gel press in a pale pink distress oxide ink pad, blotted some ink off, placed an LS stencil on top , then placed my white card on top and rubbed it to get an image. Once I had dried that image, I stamped on top, and added the words.

I take ne responsibility for any spelling (or other) mistakes on this post!  The medication I am on scrambles my brain!  It will take me another week or so until my brain fog has gone - please be patient with me, lol!! As well as being in and out of hospital, I  have somehow injured my left hip, yes the hip I had the replacement in. It's kept me off my feet for the last nine days, and I'm having to take painkillers every five hours. Even though I sit on an orthopedic cushion, my hip is still very painful. I had x-rays done, and the hip joint is not fractured, just very painful. The pain wakes me around 4 am every morning, which means I feel like a zombie all day! Apart from all that, I am still here and slowly getting back into my crafting, which I have missed so much! 

Thanks for dropping by! Have a SUNSHINE day! Always be your authentic self and shine bright each and every day!