First, I am coming back tonight to comment on all the beautiful artwork that is in the gallery... which is a good transition into the fact that I am a hare. Not because I want to be, but because I always have 36 hours of stuff to get done in a 24 hour day, so I am usually rushing to get a card done. I have a few tips for the WT524 on how to salvage a card when you ruin it because you were rushing. This was just going to be a card for the CC523. I tore note paper and sponged the different bands of bg color, spritzed with water, and went looking for some simple flower silhouette stamps to add. I found the little row of houses that I did not know I had, the car from a different unknown set, and finally the house and sun at the top which I had to mask some other parts so they didn't show. Now for the salvage part of the card.... this seems to be part of every card I make. Where I wanted a nice dark image, it did not stamp well, and it did stamp in dark black where the edge of the rubber had picked up unwanted ink. The black sharpie is my first disaster relief tool. I colored in all the parts of the stamp that were missing. Then I used my blacl micron pen to doodle over all the areas where the edge of the stamp made unwanted lines. The next attempt to do CPR on this card involved my white gel pen. The bg was too dark and the whole card looked like a mud puddle. I added white gel pen dots and doodles everywhere. I was just about to take a photo of the card when the final accident occured. On every card I manage to get my elbow, nose, left toe or other body part in a liquid of some sort, which ends up right in an obvious place on my card. Somehow, 2 blobs of ketchup got on the card. My final hint for saving a card is to be creative. Hiding under the 2 bows with that grass like stuff are the ketchup blotches. TFL,Francie
Date: Friday, March 27, 2015 GMT Views: 1170
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Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50472
Sat, Mar 28, 2015 @ 2:06 PM
Only you could manage to turn ketchup blotches into art...lol..I think you need to start prefacing your cards with "no stampers were hurt in the construction of this card". Fabulous countryscape Farncie..love the old fashioned cars, the doodlings, the bright colors and bg papers...it's all brilliant Hugs to you
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Mon, Mar 30, 2015 @ 6:15 PM
Oh my what a fun story on how you get to your cards. They are always so incredible and the colors are so bright and beautiful. Your card making sounds like many of mine have ended up. I end up just tossing some because I just can't salvage them and this is so incredible.