This card is for the Teapot Party Tickle. The theme is to think about the Browner side of the Fence (or Green as some of us say) and to think about the things that we all have.
I am so grateful for so many things....my DH, my family and grandchildren, my home, and I often pinch myself when I think about how my new country and home allowed me to come here and become a citizen many years ago. I'm also very grateful for the life that my DH and I share, for friends around the world and also friends on this site that I have met over the past few years. I'm grateful to our State Premier for keeping us safe and which is allowing us to just continue to live. So many things to be thankful for.
I thought about what I wanted to convey on this card and it was difficult as so many things, but during the past year, one thing that I am grateful for is good health and to be able to wake each day and do things that I sometimes take for granted. After a year of ups and downs with health in our household I am thankful that we can continue to keep living.
I started my card with an ugly panel I had in my stash which had greens and oranges and some pink on and used a rose EF and did the sanded embossing technique. Great technique and gives an amazing effect on what started out as not a great panel.
I then created a panel using a cloud stencil and did Lydia's Fat&Lean technique...wow that technique gives a great effect. I shall definitely be trying this one again too. Unfortunately I then decided to cut the panel up using a new window/flower box die set. You can't see the clouds too well but they are there. I wanted to give the impression of cloud reflections in the window. I popped each panel up including the square window panes.
Die cut flowers and added to the flower box. This also was cut out of my Fat&Lean panel but was looking too plain and had lost its clouds LOL, so I decided to add a lace border that I've had in my stash since I started scrapbooking...at least 25 years ago.
Plonked my embossed and distressed panel on top of gauze/cheesecloth that I sprayed with Dylusions shimmer inks.
Die cut the butterfly out of the Fat&Lean panel that was left and added bling. Stamped my sentiment on another piece of panel in my stash and finally added WoS and stickles.
TFL. Happy day
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 GMT Views: 919
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Wed, Mar 31, 2021 @ 3:01 AM
I KNEW this was your card the minute I saw that cheesecloth! Love the colors, the soft glow, and the texture - looks like sunset in Italy or somewhere really cool. GORGEOUS card someone is going to squeal with delight over! Fun stuff. I am grateful for your good health as well. Hugz
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132002
Wed, Mar 31, 2021 @ 3:58 AM
What a positive and encouraging write-up. And what a beautiful card. I love the soft colours in your window and windowbox, and the texture from your gauze. I need to try to find something a bit more open like that, sometimes my cheesecloth is a closer weave than I want. The lace is a fantastic touch.
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Registered: June 3, 2016 Location: France Posts: 60385
Wed, Mar 31, 2021 @ 5:33 AM
Jayne I loved to read what makes you happy and thankful and I love what you've made for this tickle, all the different techniques you've mixed together on this beauty are matching very well, love the cloth and love the colors and love all!
Love all the wonderful techniques you used on this card, which is just as unique and special as you are. I loved reading your write up. Beautiful clouds in your windows, and a beautiful thankful outlook that you are sharing with a tickle recipient!
------------------------------ Sharon ♥
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Wed, Mar 31, 2021 @ 1:46 PM
This is a sweet and happy scene. The sanded panel looks great, so it's hard to imagine it was ever ugly. I don't know the Fat&Lean technique, but I really like the look of the window and shutters, so I may have to check it out.
Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50688
Wed, Mar 31, 2021 @ 2:30 PM
I love this! The sanded bg looks amazing (I need to do that tech)..and the rose and blue windows and shutters are beautiful and really a unique look. We all have a lot to be thankful for this year despite all the challenges.
This is a fantastic mixed media card! Love the colors - all of them - they go so beautifully together, love the cheesecloth and the window with the bit of lace! I've got to check-out that Fat & Lean technique... also love the write-up!