This is a bit late and by the time Harry (Mr Yabbadodo) recieves this, I hope Harry and our own teapotter, Faith (yabbadodo) are back in the forest searching for the perfect wood for carving.
We learnt from Faith that her husband Harry loves wood work and makes beautiful knives. I cannot imagine a more dangerous hobby to have, knives and I have quite a history. I remember once when I was trying to cut pumpkin with a huge knife. The knife got stuck half way in the pumpkin and as I tried to pull it out, the knife and the pumpkin lifted off the kitchen bench and thumped me in the forehead. There was no blood and only a mild concussion.
On another occassion I was using a very sharp knife to cut packing tape from a box. I placed the box on my desk....long story short, the box slipped but the knife kept coming. I got six stitches, but it was ok because it was in the exact same place as my appendix scar. I have so many more knife stories LOL....There is a bit of a joke amongst family & friends, when I offer to help in their kitchens everyone jumps up and says...No Knives!! OK enough about me, now about the card.
This started out as a 4" x 8" tall card, unfortunately I mucked up some stamping near the top so I decided to lop the top portion off and use the coloured panel as a layer on a 5" x 6" card.
The coloured background was done with the smack and squirt technique (smack ink pad onto foil, squirt on water, then sponge onto card using a foam blending tool) I sponged on Mowed Grass (bright green) distress ink followed by some Peeled Paint (green) in a few spots. I then used Spiced Marmalade (orange) followed by Festive Berries (warm red). I then went over each coloured layer with the foam blending tools and undiluted ink. To tone it down a bit I scrubbed on undiluted Walnut Stain and spritzed on a tiny bit of water.
When the card was nice and dry, I stamped on two different garden scenes using Archival ink. The little owls were stamped onto smooth white cardstock then fussy cut. I then I went to my reject backgrounds box, chose a few bright backgrounds, stamped the owls again, fussy cut their clothes, hats and boots, then paper pieced then to the owls. I adhered the owls to the coloured background and gave them some googly eyes.
The kraft background is a very thick (app 320gsm) cardstock. I embossed it with a woodgrain EF, then spritzed with water and dragged my Gathered Twigs distress ink pad over the raised area.
Thank you for looking and have a lovely week everyone.
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Sat, Feb 21, 2015 @ 10:06 PM
Susie...You are amazing with all your compositions on cards...this is so cute, funny, and green...lol...well maybe a tad bit of orange too...lol...and AWESOME on de wood!!!
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Registered: September 21, 2006 Location: In the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, Home of the Paper Clip Project - The National Cornbread Festival Posts: 26563
Registered: September 21, 2006 Location: In the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, Home of the Paper Clip Project - The National Cornbread Festival Posts: 26563
Registered: September 21, 2006 Location: In the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, Home of the Paper Clip Project - The National Cornbread Festival Posts: 26563
Registered: September 21, 2006 Location: In the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, Home of the Paper Clip Project - The National Cornbread Festival Posts: 26563
Registered: September 21, 2006 Location: In the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, Home of the Paper Clip Project - The National Cornbread Festival Posts: 26563
Registered: September 21, 2006 Location: In the beautiful Sequatchie Valley, Home of the Paper Clip Project - The National Cornbread Festival Posts: 26563