Brads

Brads: Patience 

Way back in the spring, I participated in Team Awesome Pants's A-Z w/Thee LTC swap.  I never made a blog post for those cards but I plan on it.  When she sent the cards back to you, she sent a surprise.  The surprise was brads.

She then made an LTC swap where you were supposed to make a card with the brads you received.  It was when I was working full time and I didn't really want to make the cards.  I also wasn't crazy about the brads I got.   But I felt guilty throwing the brads away and I didn't want to mail them back.

My brads were tiny, brightly colored birds.  I didn't like them because they were too small and the colors were too bright.  I went thru my paper stache looking for something loud that fit the birds.

I found this old pad of paper that I used a few years ago in a Bind it All swap.  You had to make some kind of book using your BIA.  I made little recipe books in the shape of aprons.  I thought they were cute.

I used scraps from that book to make these cards.  The cards also have a plain brown border.  My cards are called, "Patience" because the brad bird is waiting for the eggs to hatch.  You used to be able to make a synopsis of your "box" on the Box Details page.  But you can't anymore.  So I put in the Keyword box, "tapistryingmypatiencewiththesebrads".  XD

Camp Life LTCs

Brief life update: On Monday, July 27th, I was fired from Rural King for not wearing a face mask.  I have ordered my home school curriculum and it should arrive on Friday (7/31).  I hope to start our home school adventure on August 10th. 

(7/29)With loosing my job, have a lot of free time and jumped right into making cards.  This is my card for the "What is your life?" swap.  My card is called, "Camp Life." 

I thought about making a geli print background but went with the bleeding tissue paper because it is just so easy.  You brush or spray water on paper, lay the bleeding tissue paper down, and you can add more water if you wish.  When they dry, the tissue paper falls right off.  It's so easy.  I'm using it on another card too while I have it out.

What is your life?: Camp Life

Once the cards were dry (I used a cheep watercolor paper) I stamped and embossed my stamp.  Then I glued the whole thing to brown scrapbook paper.  Nothing exciting but I like it, and like creating and being artsy again <3