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AECP Card 4:You Have Been on My Mind

AECP Card 4: Altenew All About Layering 3 Lesson 4

I was very happy with how this card came out. I had done the ink blending over the embossed image a few days ago. Then fussy cut it out another day as well as pondered how I would like to lay it out. So, all I had to do tonight was to actually trim and glue the flowers onto the card front and add a sentiment. And, of course, I like to add an inner layer with a stamped image to the inside of the card, to stamp the back of the card and to decorate the envelope. The stamping involved creating masks for the flower and leaf images. I opted to use some removable doublesided tape on the back of the masking paper rather than to peel off the backing. It seems to mask well and I think makes the masked image more sturdy and reusable.

The first placement on the card front. Then I trimmed off the extra to be used on the other side of the card.

I tried the sentiment on the right side, but opted for the left side to enable some of the flowers trimmed off from the top to be added to the side.

I preferred the sentiment on the right-hand side because it allowed me to add move flowers down the left-hand side of the card.

I had to create some masks to make it easier to add leaves to the stamped images on the back of the card as well as the inside of the card and onto the front and the back of the envelope.

I ‘cheated’ and just stamped one image on the envelope. It’s big enough that some of it was on the front of the envelope and the rest of it was on the back.

The inspiration card from All About Layering 3 Lesson 4. I do like the bigger, bolder sentiment as well as the black outline on the staamped images. It definitely looks different than the card that I made. It has a different type of dimension created by layering die cut leaves behind the die cut flowers whereas the card I made gets its dimension from the 3D embossing folder.

Shovelling on Sunday

Many hands make light work. Although it may have seemed like it was a lot of work to shovel out one of the non-4WD cars that had parked out by the mailboxes on the municipal road, it actually went very quickly and didn’t really feel like work with all of us chipping in. A few of us walked the few kilometres out on the cottage road while 2 drove out with the shovels. And, before we knew it the car was cleared and all evidence of the snowplow snowbanks that had surrounded the car had been tossed into the snowbanks and it looked as if we hadn’t even parked a car there.

The beautiful snow is definitely worth the effort it takes to clear off vehicles, shovel off driveways and dig out from around cars when necessary; especially when working as a team together. In addition to some walking, shovelling and snowshoeing we also did a bit of yoga and made a bit of progress on the jigsaw puzzle. And had a delicious breakfast and a late lunch before everyone except me heading home. I opted to stay up at the cottage and did a bit of cardmaking and will soon to heading straight to bed.