Think Happy Thoughts

Think Happy Thoughts: Pooh & Piglet 

This is my card for Damselfly's Think Happy Thoughts tracker.  My first thought was of Winnie the Pooh's quote, "Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."

For this background I made a cloud of card stock and rubbed distress ink around it to make a blue sky and leave light areas for clouds. 

I colored my stamp image with copic markers on card stock, cut them out, and attached them with a glue stick.  I glued that to a yellow texture paper.  This card makes me happy in these crazy times. 

I made this post on April 13th.  I have lost my job due to the Coronavirus quarantine.  I have been off for 3 weeks and today I plan on applying at a few "essential" businesses.     

Mini Art Gallery & Camping LTCs

Mini Art Gallery: Go Outside

I have 3 LTC swaps due today, I decided to split them up and make 2 blog posts.  I have lost my job and I don't have anything else to do right now (April 13).

This first one is for Gypsy Fiddler's Mini Art Gallery swap.  I signed up and when I added it to my Countdown Widget I titled it, "frame".  I often abbreviate tracker names here.

I carved my stamp, stamped, and colored it with Copic Markers.  I cut out my frame and attached it with foam tape.  When I was finished I realized that I didn't follow the rules of the swap.  I didn't make a fancy frame like you would find in an art gallery.  I'm curious to see what others did with their frames.

Camping!: I sleep around

This year I am hosting a camping swap.  My husband ran for City Council last year and we didn't get to go camping as much as I would have liked.

I thought this image was fun and an easy carve after the waterfall.  I stamped and embossed it on some camping paper I had on hand.

Carefree Catfish LTC

Hello!  This is my card for Hartx6's Life on the River LTC.  The name of the Great Lakes Gathering (GLG) this year is Life on the River; the Mississippi River.  I signed up to make these LTCs and donate my stamps.

I wanted to make a background that resembled a muddy river.  I cut plain card stock to size and sprayed it with Peeled Paint & Walnut Stain Distress Oxide Spray and water. 

I let that dry and went looking thru my stencils for one that looked like water or scales.  I put down the dry card, taped the stencil over it, sprayed with water, and blotted with a paper towel.

I was happy with how these turned out and stamped my catfish with brown ink on the dried cards.  I took a different water splatter stencil, put it over the cards, and smeared Distress College Matte Medium with a knife.

When that was dry, I attached it to a green background paper.  I really like how these turned out.  Some of them have a lot of blue in the background.  I guess it is from the green spray.  I plan on carving a few more stamps to sent off to the event.