Country Songs LTC

Country Songs: Rockin' Years

I am participating in TAP's "Country Songs" LTC swap.  My card is called "Rockin' Years", by Dolly Parton & Ricky Van Shelton.

I carved up two matching rocking chairs and added the name of the song.  I played around with carving different rocking chairs.  I was thinking a fancy one for a woman and a simple one for a man.  But I decided that was too much work ;)

I found some scrapbook paper that looks like floral paint/wallpaper that is peeling off wood.  I thought it was pretty and went well with old rocking chairs.  I stamped my stamp on vellum with purple ink.  The background paper has some purple flowers; they are small and I probably should have used green, but purple is my favorite.

I sent the stamp off as a donation to the Homerdoodle in the Country event.  I also sent the car from my Route 66/Cadillac Ranch  LTC as a cootie. I called it My Church for the Maren Morris song :)

PAL Day 2017

Wednesday was the 12th Annual International Plant A Letterbox Day.  I went out on Saturday and planted a series of 3 boxes at the Eagle's Bluff Overlook and Park in Cannelton, Ind.

There is an old letterbox there.  It was planted in 2007 and I have looked for it at least 3 times before and never found it.  Other people found it but I could not.  I decided that before I planted my boxes I would look for this old one again.

Like the times before, I walk the trail that the clue says to walk.  Just like all the times before I count out 100 steps and I end up at a tall rotten stump on the right.  The clue is vague but says to look in the tree on the right.  I search the stump again and don't find anything.  We go back to a tree with a hole (80 steps?) and find a geocache like the last time we looked.

All the other times we looked we went ahead just a bit looking around a few other trees but turned around a went back.  This time we decided to continue on.  After a while we come to a tree on the left with a big hole.  The kids say I should check it out and there was the box.  We started looking for the box in 2011 and after 4 tries finally found it.

When we were done stamping we counted from the tree to the end of the path and it was about 100 steps.  So it appears that every time we looked for this box we were walking the path in the wrong direction.  You don't start at the trail head with the signs, you go up a grass hill to end of the trail that you can't even see from the paved path.  

We checked out the overlook when we were done with the old box and then headed off to a different trail to plant our new series.  The park is about an hour from where we live and I bet it will take a while for anyone to find our boxes.  But it was a nice day, we finally found the old box, and we had fun exploring the park.

Hello Kitty LTCs

Hello Kitty Wonder Woman

Daddy's Favorite Princess and I are participating in jlsd0218's "Hello Kitty Superheros and Villains" LTC swap.  It was my idea to join but it didn't take much to talk the Princess into making a card too ;)

Hello Kitty Luke & Leia

The Princess did Wonder Woman and I did Luke & Leia.  There were so many fun Hello Kitty Star Wars characters that I had a hard time picking which one to do.

I sent our stamps off to Cherryontop when we were done with the cards.  So if you live in Cali you may see them.

Country Silos & Fancy Feathers

Kitchen Canister Silos

I am participating in the "Vintage Country Barns, Mills, and Bridges" LTC swap.  One of the things listed on the tracker was silos.  I just drove past these silos when planting one of my Hoosier Library Day boxes.

My card is called, "Kitchen Canister Silos."  I carved my stamp, stamped it on watercolor paper, colored the card with the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons, and then went over it with a water brush pen.  I sent the stamp off with the cards to be used at the Homerdoodle in the Country event.

I posted this pic on my Facebook page and everyone loved it.  I guess I will have to find a place to plant it when they return it after the event.


I'm also in the Fancy Feather Inchie swap.  I haven't made inchies in a while and thought it would be fun.   But carving a feather that small turned out to be tough and I almost dropped from the swap.

Fancy Feather: Tie Dye Feather

My stamp is pretty simple but I tried another new Pinterest technique.  You put some drops of alcohol ink on a baby wipe and stamp your stamp on that.  It gives a tie dye effect.  It looks cool but I think it would be better for bigger stamps and you can see that I tested it out on my mermaid.