Good Monday everyone! I sure hope you are having a better stamping day than I am!
Today's Try a new Technique was an easy one... make a speckled paper by brayering on some color, then spritzing with Simple Green. Simple enough... and I didn't really have any trouble doing that. Why I didn't just use that as my bg and go from there, I don't know! I decided I wanted to try another new technique for me... to make a shaker card. I had purchased this cute little Studio G $1.00 stamp at M's and wanted to try to make it a shaker. Well... long story short... I thought I could figure this out without looking up the tutorial because I was in a hurry.... yeah, right!!! I actually did figure it out but only after ruining the first try by forgetting to put my image in before I closed it up... so I had a shaker, but no scene. Then I tried to put the scene behind it, but the snow covered too much of the snowman up... he was buried in snow up to his head!
So... I finally got that done.. and the image is stamped on the bordering blue paper I had made for today's technique. I punched out some snowflakes out of the same paper, and decided on mounting all this on a white panel which I ran through the bug. Well.... I don't have a cutting system other than my nesties, and I only have one size of them, so after trying to make a template and cut with my Fiskars finger blade, I decided to use my nestie and figure out the size from there, because I knew my nestie was bigger than my image. So... I cut a silver "ring" to take up the gap. OK... not too bad yet. Cut out my silver base and laid it on the card but it looked like it was in outter space among the stars and snowflakes, so I cut the red panel to ground it, and stamped the sentiment. But... not being Sparklegirl... I don't do plain space well at all, and it looked plain! So.... I added silver greenery and "berries"... still doesn't look right but I'm at that point that any more on this card and it won't stand up! My ribbon is too small but what a perfect color match... and I didn't have any wider ribbon that looked right. So... there you have it.
If that wasn't bad enough... my first upload with a much better explanation disappeared into outer space along with my snowglobe the first time!
Hope you have a better day than I have, and if you've read this far you get extra points! You might even get added to THIS elve's NICE list!!! Thanks for looking!
Date: Monday, December 1, 2008 GMT Views: 1224
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Registered: September 2, 2006 Location: south of SOHO Posts: 21494
Mon, Dec 01, 2008 @ 3:20 PM
this is beautiful! Those shaker cards are tricky, I give you points for attempting it without directions! No thanks on the nice list, it's too much work being nice!
Registered: May 27, 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 12844
Mon, Dec 01, 2008 @ 3:53 PM
Ohhhhh, I can soooo relate to this tale of woe. I know you were frustrated, but I could not help but smile at your description of one mishap after another. I give you an A for perseverance because I would not have had the patience to finish. Your result is a masterpiece. Love your card!
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Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39766
Mon, Dec 01, 2008 @ 4:52 PM
Oh Grace, you should have gone with the first one and made us wonder......is there really an image there or not! LOL So glad you saw this through to the end because it is just oh so darling! You done good! Very good! TFS :0)
------------------------------ Cathy B aka: Mutnik ....or is it Nutmeg?! I get so confused!
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Registered: June 21, 2006 Location: Still getting giddy over paper and ink in Colorful Colorado! Posts: 14180
Mon, Dec 01, 2008 @ 5:37 PM
Mamma said there'd be days like this...oh Grace, I have these days way too often, and I have to laugh at myself and your story...it is so nice we can come here and tell people what we did wrong and also show them what we did right...like this card for instance...it is beyond adorable!! And brave you, I still have never tried a shaker card!!