Day: March 23, 2025

Soup on Sunday | 100DayProject Day 29

Back to taking photos of the beautiful bright red gerbia daisies.

100DayProject Day 29

I have mostly been working on a few other crafty projects today instead of either my 100DayProject or any kit assembly for my upcoming Dementia Society and Canadian Mental Health Association classes.

Part of my crafty project. I’ll share more about it in a few days.

I did select a ‘hello’ die and created several layers of it which I glued together. Some I cut with adhesive-backed cardstock and the others I cut from 80 lb. cardstock. I glued the layers together and ran them through my die-cutter.

I started to cut out a few different die cuts, but finally got more realistic, put away the extras and focused on the hello die!

I tried a few different settings. I did a few trial runs through without inking the bottom vellum layer with ink. There was quite a bit of pressure required to make a good indentation. I eventually ran a few through after inking the bottom. I noticed that the layers shifted a bit from the pressure. I will have to investigate to see if they shifted under the adhesive-backed cardstock or under the glued layers; somehow I think it was the adhesive-backed layers that shifted.

Some of the layers that I cut out to build up a thick die cut image. I tried some from 80 lb white cardstock which I adhered together with glue. I also cut some from adhesive-backed cardstock. And the bottom layer is vellum which I adhered together with glue. I think the glue layers adhered better under the pressure of running them through the die cut machine for the faux letterpress effect.

Definitely some more experimentation required. I think it may work better onto thicker cardstock for a few reasons – the first being that it would be easier to make an indentation – and second being that the ink likely wouldn’t show through. However, I’m going to go ahead and finish the card that I started with 80 lb paper in which the ink shows through; perhaps I’ll add two inner layers – one on each side of the cardbase.

My first trial using ink on a scrap piece of paper. I may turn it into a card front. You can’t see the impression effect very well in the photo.

I think a few late nights combined with way too much recent experimentation with the foiling have left me with little energy or inclination to further experiment with the faux letterpress technique at this time. So I’ll move on and come back to it eventually.

I think I moved the stacked hello die cut a bit before or as I ran it through my diecutting machine. I don’t think this second impression came out as well as my first impression, although I do think I got better ink coverage on the vellum bottom layer.

There is special letterpress paper and apparently it works better with pigment than dye based inks so there is certainly a lot of things for me to try out. Maybe I’ll even find someone who has a for home use letterpress machine that will let me try it out. I will eventually research the real and faux techniques because the look is so nice.

I used too thin (80 lb) cardstock for this technique. You can see the impression from the inside of the card. i will add an inner layer on to cover it up.
You can see how the layers of the stacked hello die cuts started to shift under the pressure of being run through my die cut machine. Further experimentation with the glue / adhesive as well as the number of layers of cardstock, and the weight and type of cardstock for the faux letterpress technique will happen sometime in the future. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get the card finished and move onto the next lesson. This one is the fourth lesson in the Altenew Clean & Simple Boutique Cards class.

Soup on Sunday

The soup I made on Sunday. But we’ll be eating soup for supper tomorrow instead of today.

I made a potroast for dinner. I recently found some horseradish in the fridge that I had bought quite a long time ago and developed a craving for roast beef. Wow, is it ever crazy expensive these days. So we bought a less expensive cut and made a pot roast with dumplings. It turned out reasonably well. It’s nice to have some leftovers. I also went grocery shopping for Heidi and made some soup. She’s trying to eat quite healthy this week in anticipation of ringette Nationals which start on Monday 31 March.

I used pork instead of turkey sausages but pretty much followed the rest of the recipe from the Yum and Yummer cookbook. I really like a lot of the recipes in the book and even bought an extra copy for the cottage. This is the first time trying this soup. It is easier to see what is in the clear containers that using sour cream and cottage cheese containers, but it’s still helpful to write a label on each.