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Happy Dance and my 5-Petal Sunflower

I still have a few details to work out but I've got the minimum photo editing I need! It feels so good to have my MacBook compatible with my blog.

This is the card I brought to a shoebox swap at the first session of convention. I'll edit later to add the directions which are on the old computer. Talk about last minute.  I was all set to do my Baroque Motifs trees until less than a day before I left when one of my stamp club members,  Dawn, was visiting and helped me fiddle around with this idea. After several attempts to use newer stamps for the background I finally gave up and used good ol' Flannel Plaid which was perfect.

Edited to add:

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Canvas, Flannel Plaid, Outlined for Fun

Ink: Blue Brocade, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi, Timber Brown Stazon, Versamarker and  Versamark

Papers: So Saffron, Brocade Blue, Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron Designer Series

Accessories: 5 Petal punch, ¾” circle punch, sponges, Blue Brocade 5/8” grosgrain, Clear embossing powder, clear embossing powder.

1. Stamp 51/4” x 4” piece of Blue Brocade with Flannel Plaid in Blue Brocade ink, mount on So      Saffron card and set aside.
2. Tear 4”x 2 ¾” piece of Wild Wasabi in half diagonally – it will look better if the tear isn’t too
   straight. Sponge the edges all the way around with Wild Wasabi ink. Adhere the two pieces together to form green “hills”.
3. Stamp “hello” in Brown Stazon on the piece that you will layer on top – see card. Color the
   “hello” with the Versamarker.
4. Punch an opening with the slot punch in the left side of your “hills” and tie the ribbon here.
   Attach the hills to the Blue Brocade layer.
5. Punch 3 5-Petal flowers out of the So Saffron DS paper. Layer these so that the petals are evenly spaced. Sponge edges with So Saffron ink to make the petals pop a little more. Emboss a scrap of Chocolate Chip cardstock with the Canvas background stamp and punch with the  3/4" circle punch. Add this to the centerof the sunflower.
6. Punch a few Wild Wasabi petals and sponge for leaves. Trim your Chocolate Chip scrap into a stem. It will look nice either straight or curved. Adhere the flower pieces to your card as shown or otherwise desired.

 

 

I'm back...sort of

I'm back from convention following a week in Branson with my family celebrating my parents' fiftieth anniversary. This weekend we are doing a larger celebration.

I have been stamping, getting swaps in the mail and prepping for several events I have next week. Eventually I will post my new work but I'm also getting used to a new computer: switching back to the Mac world after almost 6 years in PC land. Right now I'm struggling with my photo editing software. I was using the software from Finepix viewer (from a Fugi camera) to crop and copyright my photos. That program doesn't seem to want to load onto this Mac and I haven't totally figured out the free Seashore program that should eventually do what I need. Hopefully when the celebrating is done I'll be able to play with that and post some more.

Thanks for checking in on me and stay cool!

Almost back to Minnesota

As I write this we are finishing up a week with my family. As much as I hate to see the week end we are also anxious to return home as we await more news of the tragedy in Minneapolis. We live less than an hour from the 35W bridge collapse and know of many who commute past there daily. For years I have crossed that bridge while I travel to my hometown of Duluth. When I lived in Minneapolis after college I lived in the 7 Corners area near the University practically in view of that bridge. Thankfully my youngest sister and her family extended their trip by one day or they would have been traveling up 35W yesterday afternoon also.

Our hearts go out to the families of the missing injured and dead. Of course our prayers are with them and all involved in the rescue and recovery efforts.