A Get Well Car

Good afternoon. First order of business: a big welcome to 2 new followers:

Princess Judy of Blog This! Judy had been a follower before, but with the current Blogger/Google antics...Judy joined again with Friends Connect - so I guess technically, she's a new follower! Anyway, you don't want to miss PJ's blog, because not only will you enjoy some terrific cards, but {ahem} she makes you laugh too.

Sandra of Sandra's Blog. Sandra has some interesting tabs at the top of her blog, where you can find all sorts of topics to peruse and enjoy. Guarantee you will spend a bit of time browsing through her posts, and enjoying what you find. So if you have some time, please take a cyber visit to their fun blogs! And thanks to you both for joining this blog as followers. It's lovely to see new faces, rather than seeing followers' numbers decrease.

Now on to the card. Last summer a neighbor had some back surgery. Did well; two weeks post surgery, he had a fall, injured his arm. Thankfully no damage to the back op, but he has been dealing with this bad arm for many months. Just prior to Christmas, he had surgery to correct a 'frozen shoulder' by having scar tissue removed. Last week, he's back in the hospital with pneumonia.  Mr. remembered that we had bought this set from Sparkle n Sprinkle, & both guys are car buffs - so he hunted it up. (Now that's what I call Friendship with a capital F cause it took _some_ hunting & lots of muttering under his breath, let me tell you). The link is to the digital set, we have the smaller rubber set.

 

 

- Henry was stamped on Copic Xpress, colored with copics, diecut with Spellbinders Label 18. Added some Glossy Accents on the thermometer and windshield. To create a vintage look, airbrushed Copic E41 after coloring, after placing it back in the die to create the white border.

 

- background pieces created from these supplies:

 

- Some Liquitex matte gel dabbed on the craft sheet, added in some Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical

powder, mixed up with the plastic knife which was handy. This looked much too thick - so then added in some Liquitex slow dry blending medium, which thinned it a bit. Used the serrated part of the knife to spread some on w/color weight cardstock, and got the wood grain effect. Spritzed some water on the blobby mixture that remained on the mat, and started to smoosh other pieces of c/s in the blobs of color. However, I learned that less spritz is better, because the puddle started to run _everywhere_. A stack of c/s kept on the table to the rescue as I grabbed them madly, trying to keep the spreading puddle from going everywhere! So got several more backgrounds to use. The first bkground turned out best, because it had more of the powder speckles in it. The corrugated paper was on the table and got used as a mop up too. Decided to add a torn piece of it behind Henry for some texture. DH wasn't sure he liked this, thought it looked better without that. Since I'm the card maker, it got added! He did like the final result.

 

- Momento die set cut the arrow-- Elizabeth Craft die Sentiment from small piece of the blue wood grain c/s, with a little bling from some freebie blue rhinestones. Inside sentiment is from the set & says "Overheated? Low on Gas? Tired Out? Get Well Soon!".

 

Thanks for joining me in a little visit this Sunday afternoon. So many of you are having severe cold & nasty weather where you live. Hope you can stay inside where it's cozy, and that any who happen to be facing health problems, are feeling much better today. Blessings and Big Hugs.

 

Edit: Thanks to a blog buddy (Veerle) this masculine card has been linked to Addicted to Stamps where there is a Masculine Challenge going on currently.

 

II: I must be getting senile! Completely forgot to add the link to Sparkle n Sprinkle Challenge after using this cute stamp. My excuse must be that you're supposed to use glitter, flocking or EP, and I didn't on this one. But then when I checked I saw some others that didn't appear to use those products AND since I used SnS stamp, I took a chance. They may just kick it out of the challenge! But anyway....