Sheri gave us a fun story this week resulting in the Teapotters sending flowers to Betty in Las Vegas. I thought I would go all arty this week and do a mixed media card using the plastic bag and frozen sausage technique. I learnt the plastic bag technique from Janelle (dizzymommie) at the MIX59 challenge, the frozen sausage part was my own invention.
I roughly sketched a little pond with long reeds. I then placed the sketch under the clear plastic bag and applied ink pads to the relevant areas. Next step was to wrap a frozen sausage (a thick chorizo sausage) in cling wrap and rolled it backward and forward over the inks to sort of blend the colours. Everything was going to plan when our doorbell chimed (it is more of a ding dong than a chime), I digress, our 96 year old neighbour was at the door to see if we could take a look at her refrigerator. Long story short, after putting what we could salvage into our fridge and freezer, we took Mrs Shears to the shops and she bought a new fridge.
You are probably wondering what all this has to do with my card, weeeeeell by time we did all this, my sausage had thawed out and it would no longer roll across the cardstock properly. You can see the lower section of the card is quite different to the rest. Not wanting to give up I scrubbed some distress ink at random and finished off with a light spritz of Dylusions ink spray.
The reeds were stamped using Memento ink. The flower was stamped onto white card stock then inked with Tim Holtz inks, fussy cut and popped up with 3D tape. It is hard to see in the photo but I went over a few reeds with super fine glitter.
I am taking Mrs Shears shopping tomorrow to stock up her new fridge and we are going via the craft shop so I can buy myself a new brayerÂ…..no more frozen sausage brayering for me. This card is in the mail, I had heaps of fun making it and I hope our cards will brighten BettyÂ’s week.
Have a wonderful week everyone.
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Registered: May 23, 2009 Location: sunny california Posts: 9844
Thu, May 08, 2014 @ 7:04 AM
Susie, your card is stunning and your story sure made me laugh...a special thanks for the laugh early in the morning when I am trying to drag myself to work. You used such pretty colors and the overall design and layout is gorgeous. I think I would save my money on the brayer - you get such amazing results with food brayers.
Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22599
Thu, May 08, 2014 @ 4:39 PM
WOW, WOW, WOW! And I may trade my brayer for sausage since your results are SO much better! What a phenomenal background and you fussy cut that stamp? Susie, this is incredible and into my favorites!
Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39761
Thu, May 08, 2014 @ 5:34 PM
Once again your story had me in stitches! Make sure you send it with the card.....the story that is, not the thawed out sausage! Susie this is simply amazing and a must try only I will be using the brayer. hehe Love it! TFS :0)
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Registered: February 28, 2010 Location: Eastern Ohio Posts: 7072
Fri, May 09, 2014 @ 6:41 AM
Smiling from your sweet story---nice of you to take her to get new fridge. Your technique came out so cute---frozen or not and the colors are great---my colors. Really neat card.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 140449
Fri, May 09, 2014 @ 8:20 AM
You really do make some fabulous cards with that stamp, Susie!
Have fun with a brayer instead of a frozen sausage. Ummmm - I hope you threw the sausage out and didn't try freezing it again.
I bet the glitter on the grasses must look super-cool in real life .
Registered: February 9, 2010 Location: Mentone, California Posts: 7361
Sat, May 10, 2014 @ 10:13 PM
Susie, as usual you have gone the extra step to create a wonderful creative card. SO sorry your sausage melted but it did not get in the way of you coming up with a winner! You achieved some lovely depth and dimension and amazing colors. A great "arty" piece of mixed media!
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