Beautiful You Birthday Fab Friday #139

Some weeks are good; some not so good.

Last week was one of those weeks where I was in too much pain, and too tired to even think about going to the craft room.  It was enough just getting off the couch.

I was waiting for a doctor to phone me with test results and a diagnosis, but he failed to call.  This was the third call he missed.  I was so disappointed, angry, upset etc I felt like a deflated balloon.  Up until now I had put on a strong face and kept to my usual routine, but after the 3rd missed call I just could not do it anymore!

Today I made a concerted effort to create something, Perhaps not my best work, but its a start.

I made this card for the sketch challenge with Fab Friday here

The base card of Tranquil Tide card stock layered with embossed Whisper White cardstock forms the basis of this card.

The focal image is placed in the right side.  It's wonderful when one can use die cuts from other projects.  And that's exactly what I did.  The image was stamped on a left over Whisper White lots of labels die cut.  Raindrops (from the stamp set Weather Together) were stamped with Pool Party around he image, and the image colored with watercolor pencils and a blender pen.

This die cut was adhered to another left over Tranquil Tide Oval with dimensionals.

The sentient was stamped on Vellum with a strip of 'tranquil Tide punch with the ticket punch adhered  at the bottom edge. This was placed on the lower part of the focal image.

For added interest I added some gold foil thread inserted in the left side.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Beautiful You, Weather Together

Inks:  Black Memento, Watercolor Pencils, Pool Party

Papers:  Tranquil Tide, Whisper White, Vellum

Accessories:  Lots of Labels Framelits, Oval Framelits, Gold Thread, Blender Pen, Dimensionals, Ticket Edge punch, Scattered Sequins Embossing Folder

Weather Together Tulle Shaker Cards

We've had some extreme "active" weather of late, from Nor-Easters in the US to heavy rain storms in this part of the country.  High winds and heavy rain is expected here over night.

I made these cards for a challenge for a group I belong to, the theme of which was "Showers".  I remembered seeing a video by Jennifer McGuire on how to make shaker cards using tulle rather than window sheets.  No foam tape is needed and the resultant card is lighter and much thinner. Perfect for the 3 shaker cards I needed to make.

I started by adhering the Smoky Slate layer with the Whisper White front layer which I had stamped with falling rain drops.  Then, using a layering circle framelit I die cut a circle near the upper top of both layers.

After tacking both layers apart, tear and tape adhesive was applied around the die cut circle and the edges of both the Whisper White and Smoky Slate layers.

After removing the top of the tape from both pieces, a piece of White Tulle was adhered over each circle.  Shaker elements were added to the center of the tulle on the Smoky Slate piece.  The Whisper White piece was then adhered to the Smoky Slate piece and the shaker is formed.  Wallah, it worked!!

Some DSP featuring rain drops from the Foxy Fox DSP was adhered to the Bermuda Bay card front.  The Shaker part was then added to the card front.

On the card front, an umbrella was stamped with Black Memento onto Bermuda Bay card stock and die cut; the handle stamped onto Smoky Slate and also die cut.  The two parts  were adhered together and added to the lower shaker using dimensionals.

A small cloud die cut in Whisper White and sponged with Basic Gray was added to the upper part of the shaker with dimensionals

The sentiment at the bottom was stamped in Bermuda Bay in onto Whisper White , matted with Smoky Slate and added to the front with dimensionals.

And what is a card without glimmer, so I added Clear Wink of Stella to the cloud and the Umbrella.

As I mentioned at the start of this post, the resultant card is much thinner and is lighter in weight than a conventional shaker.

On the picture below, the tulle shaker card is at the top, with the regular shaker at the bottom.  You can see the difference in the thicknesses of the two cards.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Weather Together

Ink:  Black Memento, Bermuda Bay

Papers:  Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Foxy Fox DSP (Retired)

Accessories:  Umbrella Weather Framelits, Layering Circle Framelits, White Tulle, Dimensionals, Clear Wink of Stella