Louisville Twice

Cave Hill Cemetery on Presidents Day 

My boxing buddy, G-MA, and I have been talking about going to Louisville all year.  We made plans to go 3 times and each time we canceled due to rain.

I always plot the course for our trips and I realized that G-MA had been to Louisville without us.  I was looking at boxes in Cave Hill Cemetery and saw that she already had some.  I assumed that she had all the boxes there so Daddy's Favorite Princess and I went over on Presidents Day and got all the boxes at Cave Hill and a small cemetery next door. 

Cave Hill Cemetery on Easter Monday

When I got home and started logging the boxes I realized that G-MA didn't have all the boxes there.  Oops.  So, when we finally went together we had to go back to Cave Hill so we would both have all the boxes there.

Most of my kids were out of school on Monday, I took the day off, and G-MA, the princess and I went to Louisville.  We left at 8 am and traveled 2 hours. 

We started off in Cave Hill Cemetery and the small cemetery next door.  We performed maintenance on my box and went to lunch.  Then we slowly started heading south stopping at cemeteries and parks to get boxes. 

Calvary Cemetery  

After a while we decided to go downtown and look for just a few more boxes before heading home.  Downtown was very busy and we were not able to find the boxes we looked for there.  We stopped for ice cream and then looked for one more box on the riverfront.  The riverfront park was so busy we thought there was no way the box was still there.  But we were pleasantly surprised to find it.  It was a great way to end our trip.

When we were done there we headed back home.  There is a rest area box along the way that I need but the rest area is currently closed :(

We arrived home at 8pm.  Altogether G-MA found 15 while the princess and I found 23. We found and left a few hitchhikers on both trips and I planted a box on the second trip.   

Fishing Lures LTC

This is my card for jlsd0218's "Fishing Lures" LTC swap.  My card is called "Old School."

I kinda feel like I cheated on these cards because I didn't carve a fancy fishing lure.  I'm not much of a fisherman and in my limited experience we have always used worms or bugs.

My parents had 3 girls and my dad would treat us like boys.  When I was born, my dad ran down to Sears and bought me a fishing pole.  While my mom was still in the hospital, he was out getting me a fishing pole.  I still have that pole.

One time, we were camping at Harmonie State Park and we went fishing in the lake there.  We were doing really well.  My dad was putting the fish on a line in the water so we could take them back and eat them.  After a while we noticed that the line was moving a lot.  A snapping turtle was having a feast with our fish!

Fishing Lures: Old School

Back to the cards, I tried something new for these.  I have been wanting more Distress Oxide ink pads and I saw a 12 pack of Distress Oxide sprays.  I had a good time playing around with them.  I tried 3 different things so some of the cards look a little different.

One time, I sprayed the DO sprays, sprayed them with water, and dried them with the heat tool.  Another time, I sprayed the paper with DO, splattered them with water from a cup with my hand, let that sit a minute, and removed the extra water with a paper towel.  The last time, I sprayed the watercolor paper down with water first, then sprayed with DO.  That didn't work well.  The color was too washed out.

I stamped my stamp, mounted it to card stock, and sent the cards off.  Then I got my cards back from the "New/Underused Product" swap and I wanted to ask jlsd0218 for my cards back.  Someone had used Distress Collage Medium thru a stencil and I loved the look.  I went down to the craft store, bought some, and tried it on an extra piece of background paper.  I loved how it made the cards look wet but felt silly asking the host to send my cards back.  I made 18 cards and only 11 people joined the swap.  I will probably put the college medium on the extra cards.

My First Shaker Card!

Back in the fall dancingpecan posted an Interactive LTC swap.  I wasn't really interested so I didn't pay much attention but it filled up and she posted another one.  It filled up and she posted another one.  I decided I would jump on the bandwagon and joined the last one. 

My card is called, "Sun Tea" and it is my first ever shaker card :)  I probably did this the hard way but I had a lot of fun.  Here we go...

I carved the lemon, tea bag, and jar.  I stamped the lemon on yellow paper, the tea bag on cream paper and brown text paper, and the jar on white paper.  Then I cut them all out, along with the inside of the jar.

The back layer of the card is just brown card stock.  I usually make the back of the card last but was smart enough to do it early in the card process this go round.

Now to assemble the top layer of the card.  I cut the table cloth paper to size, cut the sky to size but tore the bottom, and tore some white clouds, and glued it all together with a glue stick.  I glued the jar on top and used an X-ACTO knife to cut the sky and table cloth out of the middle. 

At first I glued the clear transparency paper to the back of the top with tacky glue.  But the glue would ooze out and make a mess so I switched to a tape runner. 

After the clear window was in place, I added the foam tape.  I saw a video on YouTube where a kid folded the tape over to make it thicker.  I liked the idea and did it too.  I cut a section of foam tape, folded it in half and then cut it down the middle to make it thinner.  I attached it to the back of the top part of the card.  Then I filled the window area with the tea bags, lemon, beads, sequins, and some times glitter.  The Princess insisted that they needed the glitter.  I wasn't sure about it and left it out sometimes. 

Now for the hard part, attach the brown back so that it is centered.  I tried making the card in reverse and had issues.  One time I attached the foam tape to the brown background, filled it with beads, sequins, tea bags, and lemon and went to attach the top.  But guess what?  You could see the foam tape in the window.  So, I figure the only way to make sure the foam tape is hidden is to attach it to the back of the window.

Some of the cards are not centered.  Also, sometimes I got carried away with the glitter.  I think there were two that I threw away because I felt that they had too much glitter.  But I enjoyed making the cards and will search for an easier way to assemble the cards if I do this again.  The swap was for 9 cards and I made 12 if anyone wants to trade.

When I first joined this swap, I looked up shaker cards online and bought the We R memory keepers Photo Sleeve Fuse tool.  As you can see, I didn't use it at all.  I plan on making another shaker card so I can try it out.  I'm thinking about a snow globe card this winter.