Summer Craft & Swap

This is my card for the "Summer Craft & Swap" hosted by aMAZEing adventure frog.  My card is called, "Pooh :)"  This is the stamp that I send out last year for the BOTM.  It came back in one piece so I made cards and re-hid the stamp.

I got the idea for this card on Pinterest.  It is similar to my Gesso ones but this time you glue the papers down using Gel Medium.  I think I like it better than Gesso.  Also, I got on Etsy and ordered some new papers.  Some of them are from a German dictionary & encyclopedia.

After the Gel Medium was dry I sprayed the card with Dylusions London Blue, Vibrant Turquoise & water.  When that was dry I sprayed the cards with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Dragonfly.  Then I let the cards sit for a day.

For the clouds, I used white acrylic paint with a Tim Holtz Bubble stencil.  It dried quickly and I added the Pooh quote, which I got on Etsy.  This part also comes from the Pinterest link above.  You stamp the stamp on tissue paper, tear it out, apply Gel Medium to the card, put the tissue paper down, and apply Gel Medium on top.  The instructions said that the tissue paper would disappear, and it didn't.  I am a little disappointed that you can see the tissue paper but I really like the finished card.

Then I attached the Pooh image with a glue stick.  I have used Mod Podge on card backgrounds before but never covered the whole card with it.  I decided that I wanted the cards to be shiny and I would cover the card.  But I learned pretty quick that the Dylusions sprays will run/smear when you paint the Mod Podge on :(  So I covered the Pooh first and then the rest of the card.  You have to keep it lite and fast.  I put two coats of Mod Podge and it smeared a little the second time too.

Really like how these cards turned out :)

Kids Event Stamps

Raggedy Ann by Daddy's Favorite Princess

I am hosting an letterboxing event on Saturday, September 24th at Lincoln State Park.  The name is 200 years in Indiana.

I am going to have two trails of stamps with an Indiana theme.  One is All About Indiana.  It will have the state flag, tree, flower, motto, etc.

The other is called Famous Hooisers.  It will be a trail of stamps for people who were born or lived in Indiana.  For this set I asked my kids to help out.

Little John by Lego Clone Trooper

Daddy's Favorite Princess (7) volunteered to carve Raggedy Ann (I helped clean up the face a little bit).  Johnny Gruelle was the creator of Raggedy Ann.  He was born in Ill but his family moved to Indy was he was two.

Lego Clone Trooper (13) carved Little John from Disney's Robin Hood.  Wonga Phillip Harris was born in Linton, Indiana.  He was a famous comedian, jazz musician, and singer.  Harris voiced the characters of Baloo from the Jungle Book, Thomas O'Malley of The Aristocats, and Little John from Robin Hood.

Someone signed up for my Famous Hooiser tracker and said that they would carve a stamp for Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield.  But then something happened and they backed out.  R2-D2 (11) was happy to carve it for me.  Davis was born in Marion, Indiana and grew up on a farm in Fairmount with 25 cats.

Garfield by R2-D2

Today I am working on the event stamp.  I have played around with a few ideas and finally picked one.  Next week my kids will be away at my sister-in-laws for their annual get away.  I plan on going to the state park and walking some of the trails I will be planting on.  I will be looking for good hiding spots :)

Hitchhiker Hustle Again

I really enjoy the GypsyLadybug's Hitchhiker Hustle swaps.  I commented to her a few months ago that she needed to host one again.  With these you make a HH and use the stamp to make LTCs.  You send both off and you get one of each LTC and a new HH :)

My card is called "Barn Quilt" and it is pretty simple.  I tore paper for the clouds & grass.  I had a tough time designing the barn.  It took me a few tries to get the angles on the roof just right.  I glued it all together with a glue stick.

The county just to the north of mine (Gibson) has a Barn Quilt Trail with 212 quilt squares.  Last year my boxing buddy and I were boxing at their visitor center and I got the map for the trail.  My boxing buddy joked that I should plant a box for every one!!   That is impossible but I am thinking about planting a few.  As of right now, I am not doing Box of the Month in 2017 and will plant one quilt square every month.  I was also thinking of challenging fellow boxers to plant some too.  This is totally on the back burner for now but I will let you know if I do it ;)

Back to the Hitchhiker Hustle...I made the logbook for my hitchhiker and sewed the pouch for the stamp.  Have I showed how to make these little books before?  I like using them for HH & Fleas.

You need a square piece of paper.  For this one I used 10 x 10.  You fold it in half and fold the outer parts to the middle.  You will have 4 long sections.

Then spin your paper around and do the same thing again.  Fold the paper in half and fold the outsides to the middle.

When you are done with this step you have 16 squares.  To make it easier to see I marked where to cut with a black marker.  Cut the outer folds to the last fold.  Then you spin it around and cut the middle fold to the last fold.  That's easy, right?

Then you fold it all up.  I found one of these at an event and I had to copy it.  I think it had a ribbon tying it all together.  Sometimes I do that too.

Anyway, I only had one pic for this blog entry and I thought I would spice it up a bit.

PS-Don't look at the mess on my desk.  I recently threw away a stamp in a pile of scraps.  Thankfully no one took out the trash right away  :D