Thinking of You Thursday | 100DayProject Day 33 | Card 18 | Card 19
My mother of pearls? plant that Sheela gave me last summer is still alive! It’s growing slowly but surely.
100DayProject Day 33
Happily I have made some progress on my 100DayProject. I finished Card 18 (and made a second slight variation of it) as well as started and finished Card 19. I’ll have 3 days up here at the cottage so I think I should be able to make some pretty good progress on some of my project.
That addition of the black inked Friend is a really nice contrast to the teal faux-letterpress Hello that I created and wrote about several days ago. I put the card into my ‘spray box’ to add some splatter as they had done in the sample card.I’m starting to like the splatter process. This time I put a few drops of ink along with a few drops of water from a watercolour brush for 3 colours of ink in my mini palettes. Then I tapped on the brush to splatter the ink onto the card front. I like working with ink directly from a reinker rather than pressing the ink from a stamp pad out onto a block but that’s a great option if you don’t have reinkers.Because my ‘hello’ faux-letterpressing was visible from the inside of the card, I added a card insert into both sides of the inside of the card. I just added a floral stamped image on the back of the card. I added splatter to both inner card panels. I like how the black centre of the flowers adds a nice contrast. The stamp set is from an old SCT class or kit of some type (I am pretty sure).I adjusted the design slightly for the 2nd card that I made from my my trial ‘hello’ faux-letterpress impression. My sample cardstock scrap of paper had to be trimmed down smaller than a full cardfront and had an uninked faux-letterpress impression in the top right hand corner that I needed to cover up with some flowers. I quite like how this card came out, too. You can’t really notice in the photo, but this trial ‘hello’ impression actually had better indentation than the one I made into my first card. You can sort of see it where the ‘friend’ black ink overlaps with the teal ‘hello’ impression. You may also notice that I was able to get rid of most of the teal ink above the end of the ‘o’ in hello and the black ink in the middle of the ‘h’ using a very fine sandpaper from Roland’s stash. I’ll definitely be keeping some sandpaper around to remove future spots of ink that inevitably end up where you don’t want them. Apparently rubbing a pencil eraser after the sanding can help to smooth the cardstock.This was my original trial ‘hello’ faux-letterpress attempt. You can see that there is an extra impression near the top that I had to cover up. And because it was just done on a scrap of paper I had to trim it down. But I think it ended up working out well. You can really tell in this photo how much darker the envelope and the flowers I stamped to add to the card front were because I reinked my Aqualicious ink cube with Teal Cove ink. Oops!By mistake I reinked my Aqualicious ink pad with a darker colour of ink (Teal Cove) which I realized after I stamped the envelope. So, I tried to rub most of the ink out of the block onto paper towels (which I will try to convert into card fronts) then reinked again with the proper colour of ink. You can see that the colour of the flowers on the back of the cardbase is almost back to the Aqualicious colour that is on the single flower on the inner layer. These are all of the pieces of my second card. You’ll see how I die cut then trimmed the flowers to cover up that texture in the top right corner, then I added partial flowers in a few other spots as well. I tried to create a visual triangle with the black by having just two of the 3 black flower centres showing along with the black friend.Lots of ink came out of that ink cube that I mistakenly reinked with Teal Cove rather than Aqualicious ink. I think these will make interesting card fronts. I just need to do a bit of research about the best way to turn inked paper towels into card fronts. Perhaps a thinned out glue on the card front to adhere the paper towel to the cardstock as well as to covering the surface of the papertowel.Luna was lying on the floor in the usual spot that I use as my photo background when I am taking photos of my finished cards when I am in the basement. She’s so cute!
It was very slow going colouring in the already die cut hello (on beige adhesive backed paper) using my blending brush. So I opted to first try to ink blend the cardstock before die cutting which is easier. But even easier is to just rub the ink cube over the cardstock before die cutting!I was back to using my reinker ink with a bit of water to colour my images. For the card front, back of card, inner layer as well as the envelope. The diecut flowers I coloured yesterday but added the Fresh Yellow watercolour brush centres today.I am quite pleased with how the silver foil paper looks die cut with the coverplate that I got from a Scrapbook and Cards today kit.A closer up view of the card (and my blue thumb. Would a crafting session be complete without ink coloured fingers?And an even closer up view.
Throwback Thursday
We’ll start with a few photos from the negatives that Roland has been scanning in. It’s so fun to see photos of him and his parents from way back when.
Saturday 27 March 2010 – Birthday Balloons Finally Delivered
Stefan had soccer tryouts in Gloucester at 9:00 so I took advantage and brought the birthday balloons that we didn’t deliver on Thursday over to Kevin’s (and had a nice, although somewhat short visit with Kevin and Lynne). I also dropped by the Scrapbox to pick up my ‘free’ magazine and (of course) couldn’t resist buying a few (not free) things. Roland and Heidi went out to Navan to volunteer at the CORA-run Bunnyfest ringette tournament after her 9-11 gym soccer tryout. I made some lemon squares and homemade turtles (yum!) to bring to Dulce’s and some chocolate macaroons (here) for Heidi to bring to Emily’s for her sleepover then I went for a bit of a run in the afternoon after walking Stefan over to the Foerster’s where he hung out with Andrew for the evening. Stefan had spent most of the day with Luka (first here playing Monopoly, then at Luka’s, likely playing video games). Roland dropped Heidi off with Emily and Emma after the Bunnyfest, send out emails for his first soccer tryout cuts (before tomorrow’s session), then joined me (who got a lift with Mark and Rosemary) over at Dulce’s. One of her friends had the thoughtful idea to put on a fundraising dinner (Dulce’s brother, a police officer in Mexico) was injured when he was shot in the leg several times while on duty; limited medical coverage makes it a very trying time financially for his family). It was fun to see some of the Mexican and paddling crowd. When we picked Stefan up on our way home, the girls were busy creating their Facebook accounts.
now for the 2025 thoughts on that post: I saw Kevin today for lunch. I wish I had looked up the Throwback Thursday post before he arrived and I would have thought to have some belated birthday balloons for him again this year! We did enjoy burgers for lunch. The Scrapbox store is long gone. And the other local brick and mortar papercrafting store, Multicraft, will also be gone at the end of April. But, I still enjoy the Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine. I have a paid subscription and really enjoy looking at current and past issues which are available free online. And I love all their events. Stefan still plays a bit of soccer but indoor co-ed adult instead of outdoor competitive youth soccer. Heidi was a teacher coach at her high school team’s ringette tournament yesterday so while she’s no longer coaching for the City of Ottawa Ringette league (which is what the Bunnies team she was coaching back in 2010 was), she’s still coaching ringette!
Thinking of You Thursday
It’s another Thinking of You Thursday. And yet, I did not get to sending out any thinking of you cards today. It’s 11:00 and I’m just starting to write some words and to get my blog post done. We had curling tonight and have just arrived up at the cottage afterwards. With Roland driving, of course I had a nap on the way up. It would have been better to just crawl into bed upon arrival, but here I am typing instead and will likely be well overtired and find it difficult to get to sleep when I do get to bed. I’m turning off my alarm while I think of it.
The particularly good news up here at the cottage is that the weather has finally been warm enough to thaw the pipe between our septic tank and the septic field to which we have to pump the liquid. It was a cold early winter with little snow and we weren’t the only ones who had this problem. Our interim solution was to ‘convert’ our septic tank into a holding tank and we simply had it pumped when it became full. This summer we’ll get a heating line installed that we can turn on when/if it ever happens to freeze again.
Luna’s hanging out with me while I finish up my blog post here at the cottage.
It’s now 12:50 so I’ve been up way too late working on this blog post (I did post it just before midnight but have been adding updates). And, since it was Thinking of You Thursday and I didn’t get any cards sent out, I did send out my Thinking of You Thursday photo to several friends as emails and texts. Did you reach out to anyone on Thinking of You Thursday?
Creative Treats 