Teapot Tuesday finds us honoring (Redi2stamp) Mary's son Rich Summers. I hope our cards help brighten their day.
42,000 splitcoastion years ago, in a galaxy called Redi2stamp (slightly north of Teapottersville), a googly eyed clan cruised around the universe in the spaceship "Rich Summers".
As you can see, driving a spaceship is a serious business, however if you are lucky enough to be a passenger it is a whole lot of fun. Hair straighteners and hair dryers were strictly prohibited on the planet Redi2stamp, hence all the bad hair.
Now about the card...I tried to make Beate's circular step card, but it was beyond me today. I have resorted to my favorite fold - stair step. The actual card is made from acetate (you wouldn't believe the "paper" cuts I've got). It does have two steps, but the spaceship was rather large, so i just added characters to the back step (kinda looks like Rosie for the Jetsons don't you think?).
I used a circle cutter to cut half circles, adjusting the cutter by half an inch for each layer. I punched holes in random places and added some bling. The top half of the spaceship is also made with acetate,the red edge is cardstock to give it some stength.
The pilots are cute little Basic Gray stamps, I used a sharpie pen to draw wild hair, and then cut the images out. I could only find 6 googly eyes, so some of them have to share!!
I hand shaped the big alian (alien, hmmm neither looks right), I punched holes in him and added a MS spider web punch cut out to his tummy. He is holding a little Hera Arts Japanese girl stamp, I gave her a new face LOL. She is held on using a brad.
I had a heap of fun making this and I hope Rich won't mind this is a vintage trekkie card.
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 GMT Views: 2476
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Accessories: ScorPal, Fiskars cutter, blade, silver twine, brads, Kaiser bling, googly eyes, dimensional glaze, stickles, MS circle cutter, circle punches
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Registered: June 19, 2010 Location: SC Posts: 6005
Sat, May 11, 2013 @ 8:24 AM
Susie, this card is so, so, clever! I love the goggly eyes. The fact that you only had 6 to use was even better *laughing* It makes the characters look even better *laughing again* Seriously, you did a wonderful job with the starship - tons of creative interest all over this great card. Love the aliens in the background. Fabulous job with the wild hair too! I think this is card is going to bring some happy feel good smiles.
Sorry for all those paper cuts *ouch* We all hate those things. I guess it comes with the creative territory *smiling*
Registered: February 9, 2010 Location: Mentone, California Posts: 7361
Sat, May 11, 2013 @ 9:12 PM
Susie... you just plain ROCK!!! Your cards are ALWAYS such a joy to look over every quarter inch of! SO many fun details on this one... loved that they had to share the googly eyes...until I read your deets I thought that was the way they were supposed to be! Everything about this card brought a smile to my face...I just LOVE the way your mind works... you give such pleasure to us all!