ItÂ’s Teapot Tuesday once again and this week our cards are going to two year old Jasmine from Iowa. This precious little girl is waiting for a bone marrow transplant. I hope all of our cards can bring some sunshine to her long hospital stay.
Our story this week is about Lill Miss Prissy and her trips to the zoo. She loves feeding and waving to the animals. We have been asked to bring animals, sparkles and get well wishes.
I previously made the rash statement that I would keep stair step cards for “tickle” weeks, but it was simply not possible to fit two monkeys, an elephant and Lill Miss Prissy on a regular shaped card.
Miss Prissy started out life as a digi image, complete with a little tiara and tulle tutu. She HAD lots of glitter on her outfit and bling in her tiara. It was because of the excessive amount of glitter (glue based) that I put her outside to dry. It is 43C (109F) here today so I thought she would dry while I was creating Roger, Alfonso and Eloise.
Thanks to my endeavors at doing mixed media, I coloured the monkeys, Roger and Alfonso, with Distress Inks. Eloise was printed on pink and yellow paper, with Zig Wink of Stella Brushes added to her face and ears. I applied blobs of glue at random then sprinkled super fine glitter on top. I forgot I had the ceiling fan on when I did this, ooooye I have a lot of cleaning up to do.
I covered bright green cardstock with dp, added a fence and some bauble braid– this is where I expected to put Miss Prissy. I went outside to get her, you can imagine my shock when all I found was a little pool of melted glue and glitter and her little tutu floating in a bowl of water I had put out for the magpies (birds). Seems that she was overcome with heat exhaustion, which is probably preferable to getting her head and limbs blown off with my super powerful heat gun.
Thanks to the lovely messages I have received about card making and NOT stressing, I decided to replace Prissy with orange feathers. I had heaps of fun making this and it is already in the post.
Update on scissors / knife stuck to craft mat: Thank you for the suggestions about using acetate. I mentioned this to DH, he reminded me of the extensive list of banned substances that I am not to use while he is awayÂ…he of little faith. Anyway, I ignored him and tried it, I could feel part of the scissors lifting from the mat so I got my metal ruler under the handles and pulled it upÂ…..it worked, sort of. The scissors came flying off, whizzed straight past my ear and knocked over a glass of water on the table. Could have been a lot worse!!
Thank you for looking and have a great week everyone.
Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 GMT Views: 1348
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