Box of the Month & Gelli prints

Me, Daddy's Favorite Princess & Lil Ewok

This year we are participating in the Letterbox of the Month club.  Twelve people sign up, make a stamp and a logbook, and hide it for the first month.  Then, like a postal, you mail the logbook and stamp to the next person and they hide it for a month.  And it goes on and on until you get your own stuff back at the end of the year.  

Yesterday we got our box for February and we planted it today.  In the pic is me & the princess.  Lil Ewok was mad that I would not let him bring his blanket on the walk and he would not face the camera.

I have a cousin who is a geocacher and when she comes to town she caches.  The last few times she has loaded up all the kids and went off geocaching.  Now the princess thinks caching is more fun than boxing because you "get prizes."  So we have looked for a few and not had much luck.  We looked for one today and couldn't find it.  I give up; it is just too stressful looking for something with no directions.  

On a happier note: I told you that I got a Gelli plate last Friday and took it to a GS leader retreat.  I had a lot of fun playing with it.  These are my first prints.  I am using my Gelli plate on two cards and will probably use it a lot :)

Inchies!

I enjoy making inchies and back in the fall I was thinking it had been a while since I had make any.  I was going to host an inchie swap but I was stuck on a theme.

About a week later someone posted a swap called "Winchies", aka: winter inchies.  I decided to join that one and not start my own.  Shortly after that someone posted a Valentines inchie swap and I had to join that one two.

My winchie is called, "Snow Globe" and my Valentines inchie is called, "Special Delivery."

New Toy

I ordered a Gelli Plate and it came today.  I am really looking forward to playing with it.  This weekend I am going to a Girl Scout leader retreat and they encourage you to BYO crafts for Saturday afternoon.  I have packed up a lot of paint, stencils, string, paper, etc.  I am in a Gelli Plate LTC tracker and I have another card that I plan on using it on.  I am so excited!!

Winter Tree LTC

 I have posted 3 other times about using a plain tree trunk to make cards for different seasons.  This is the last one, it is called "Winter Tree" and it is for the "Show it off" tracker.

I started off stamping a store bought text stamp on my cards with tan ink.  Over that I glued strips of tea bags.  (I like the antique Mod Podge because it gives a mate finish.  I feel like the mate Mod Podge is too glossy.)  I got this idea from Pinterest and I really like how it turned out there but I am too OCD to just put the strips on randomly.  Also, I was worried about running out of tea bags.

For the next step, I  rubbed a blue distress stain around the edge and added my tree trunk stamp. Now for the fun part, I took a stencil and painted some spots on two of the corners.  They are supposed to be snow.  While the paint was still wet I sprinkled some glitter :)

I carved up a little Cardinal and stamped it in the tree to add some color.

I also stamped up a snowflake on vellum.  I wanted to emboss it but I had issues.  The vellum didn't seem to like the heat and sometimes it would develop bubbles :(

The whole thing was glued to white cardstock.  I am pretty happy with how all of these season cards turned out.

I have thought about planting all of the stamps that I used making these cards so people can make their own.  But that is probably too much work.

Spring: http://wchristmas6.blogspot.com/2014/06/flowering-trees-ltc.html

Summer: http://wchristmas6.blogspot.com/2014/08/mixed-media-tree.html

Fall: http://wchristmas6.blogspot.com/2014/09/autumn-abundance-halloween-2014-ltcs.html