A New Beginning

Welcome!
 A quick post for a card recently made for a co-worker moving locations.  I made this a week ago, but with a lot of things going on here, I'm just getting to post it.

Sorry the pictures aren't better, that's my fault for being in a hurry -- I even got a shadow here in the first one!  Actually this card was not "quickly" made -- it literally took three tries!  That's a long story...  Stamped, colored with my Copics, cut with a new die and matted on a larger matching die base before placing it all on the card base.

A close-up of the cute gnome who's definitely the star!

I'll be sending this over to NBUS #50 for the new die ~

Supplies:

   St Bella - Gnome on a Swing

   E by E - Be the Change (sentiment)

   MFT - Elegant Rectangle Stax (NBUS)

Thank you for the visit, and I hope to catch up and do some visiting of my own this weekend.

Hugs,

TK

A New Beginning

Hello, Everyone!  Sorry I haven't been around much so I'm really glad you stopped by, I've gone and done something to my back so I haven't been in my craft room or doing much else lately except trying to make it to work daily.  I'm fairing better, but still dealing with whatever happened as I'm totally clueless as to what "it" was.  So onto a card, shall we?

This was made for a friend who decided to stay at home with her son, and left me behind at work!  No, I'm really happy for her and I also understand her concern as to where to trust putting her son amidst all this craziness.  This one's for Lynsey ~

I made this card rather large, as it was from the whole office (I was asked to make one), so plenty of space to sign.  The card is literally 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (with handmade large envelope), so I went with a large image and fussy cut around it so I could pop it up over the pp that I've had for ages!

I stamped, then colored with my Zigs, and my fear was realized!  I wanted a dark center and blending out to the lighter color for the main portion of the petals, however I could NOT get that deep red to blend.  With that in mind, I took to using brush strokes and left it basically unblended (I guess another fabulous technique would've been to use Michele's fabulous stippling effect).  I had used the colors from CTD601, but I'm way late to that party so...  Here's a close-up ~

Supplies:

   EbyE - Mondo Sakura (NBUS - so I guess I'll send this over to NBUS #16); Be the Change

Well that's it for me folks!  I'll try to keep visiting all of you and possibly do a bit more crafting of my own.  Thanks for your precious visit!

Hugs,
TK