Get Well

Hello & good afternoon. I see Blogger added a new number to the followers' list, so when I checked, I think I see it is jnburretta..If I have the name correctly, thank you so much for joining here, and if you can, please let me know your 'name' and if you have a blog so that I can pay a visit. I also add my followers' names to an Excel spreadsheet so that when I do blogcandy again in the future, I can be sure to include everyone.

For the card share today, I did some alcohol ink playing on a piece of acetate salvaged from cutting apart a Spellbinder packaging (?snippet?). I had an old greeting card - and this one was very old, it was found in an old book we collected somewhere along the way...I'm guessing it may have dated to the 50's or 60's - just from its appearance.(perhaps qualifies as another snippet)!  I was going to toss it, because it was very grubby. Then decided I could fussy cut just part of the front motif, where it was still ok. This happened to be a sort of abstract rose motif. I cut it out, tested it behind the alcohol inked piece of acetate.  Liked how it looked when I placed it between the pink cardstock & the acetate, so hence this card.

- Ranger alcohol inks in reds, pinks & greens, smudged on the acetate with the blending tool

- pink textured cardstock, lightweight, embossed with Darice Flower EF

- Spare Parts pearl brads

- sentiment stamp is SU Teeny Tiny Wishes on a S/Binders 5x7 Detailed Scallops - the smallest die - onto a snippet of white cardstock

- sentiment diecut was sponged with SU Regal Rose using a small finger sponge dauber. Added some tiny pearls to tie in with the brads.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot...I'm using a card that was purchased in a set of 10 from a discount store (The Dolloar Tree). These have been here forever, so might stretch a point and call this base a snippet too. <g>I thought this would come in handy as a card base, but the front of the card is not all that pretty. I have to cover the inside with some decorations too. It makes a nice sturdy card! Because of the brads, this one will be hand delivered. Actually even the brads came out of my stash. I had bought brads when I was first accumulating stuff supplies, but seldom use brads because of the postage issue. I only used them here, because I couldn't find the vellum tape to adhere the acetate to the cardbase without having it show.

I think I'll be off to the Playground, see what's going on ...I'm hearing that our UK friends in some areas have seen Mr. Sun out & about. Think I'll check out that rumor. Love to have you come along! Have a wonderful afternoon. Hugs

Miscellaneous

Good evening, and I'm back again today. It's been a lovely afternoon, so after having a little late lunch we decided to take a ride 'out in the country'. Our area is really very pretty, still have plenty of rural areas where it is possible to see green fields, fields that are getting plowed up for spring planting, blooming Bradford Pear trees & lots of other species that I don't know what they are. It was just a pleasant afternoon to ride around. After we got home I walked out on our back deck & snapped a couple shots of what is going on around my house. I've mentioned the snowy tree that I see outside my window as I'm typing up the blog, so thought you might enjoy seeing it. Our neighbor is elderly, and there's a lot of 'stuff' in his yard, right next to ours, and he doesn't take the care that he needs to. I hate to complain about it, as I know he's elderly. (well, we are too, and have enough of a time tending our own!). So here goes:

This was taken about 5:30 pm, and the western evening sun is shining through the tree branches. Lovely to see, not as pretty as it looks in the morning hours though...the sky is no longer that intense blue we refer to as Carolina Blue.

Birthday

Hello and thanks for joining me for a little visit. Yesterday I mentioned that I had done some experimenting with brayering, wet plastic wrap & stamping. It was a fun technique to do. I got the instructions from MaggieC (http://silvercrafter.blogspot.com/) so this will be just a brief how-to. Used glossy cardstock, brayer, several colors of ink (I used Kaleidescope, but Miss Maggie said Adirondacks, Big&Juicy pads also work well). Brayered my colors (I'm still trial & error method with this at the moment); then took a piece of plastic wrap, spritzed it with water, smoodged it around over the brayered piece...removed all to a place where it could dry for a few hours. Made an Absolutely Lovely background. Here's one that I've made into a card.

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Thinking of You

Happy April 1, blog friends! No April Fooling around here though. We have a most lovely day outside my window, and I can spy a lovely pinky-white tree blooming in my neighbor's yard. I think it is what we call a Flowering Cherry tree. There's a Carolina Blue Sky in the background, and some more green trees behind the cherry tree, so a very pretty sight to behold.

Mrs. A - the winner of the blogaversary candy - contacted me with her mailing info, so I removed the picture of the candy from the sidebar. Now just gotta start building a stash for the next milestone. Am wondering "what shall it be?". I'll think of something.

A while back I had an email from a very talented crafter MaggieC. She very kindly sent me instructions for doing a brayering technique, then covering the brayered piece with plastic wrap to create a background. I finally got a little time (and was in the mood too!) to follow her instructions. I came up with some pretty pieces, but don't have 'em made into cards yet. Well, I wasn't pleased with my stamping results, but I WAS pleased with the technique. It was definitely a case of Operator Error (on my part!) and it's something I'll try again with a different stamping ink. You'll see my results as soon as I get cards made up! So thanks MaggieC for the instructions and a pleasant evening experimenting! :-)