Pain in the butt cards

These cards were originally for aMAZEing adventure frog's Summer Craft & Swap.  I had problems with the cards and sent them for the Autumn swap instead.  

I like Life is Good images and carved up my stamp of hiking boots.  I was not happy with how the text turned out.  I decided to just stamp the boot and print out text.  

I participated in a Tim Holtz LTC swap recently and discovered this wrinkle technique.  HERE is a video of Tim doing it.  I don't have a "craft iron" so I put parchment paper over the wet paper before I ironed it.  

Autumn Craft & Swap '21: Not all who wander...

The stamp, fancy stamp paper, and embossing were done.  You think assembly would be easy.  The bottom boarder is brown texture paper.  Then I cut some Tim Holtz map paper that was supposed to be smaller, but it wasn't.  I glued the boot and text paper to the map paper and that to the brown boarder but they were the same size.  

I threw that one away and cut the paper smaller.  I got one card finished and took a break.  Then my husband pointed out that I had an error in my text.  Do you see it?  So I had to reprint it.  Thankfully they are done.  

Entomology LTC

This is my card for Beetle's "Wacky, Weird, Unusual, Quirky HOBBIES" LTC swap.  Our zoo has a big entomology display and I thought it would make a fun card.  

I debated for while if I could turn the card size ways and fit two bugs but decided that one was enough.  I also ordered some wood grain washi tape to use as the frame but ultimately carved a stamp for it.

I carved the beetle and embossed it.  Then I stamped the frame stamp.  I thought I was done but just they looked to boring.  Again, I asked my kids, and they agreed that the cards needed some work.  I drew the pins to "hold the beetle down" and wrote "Beetle" under the stamp.  I have no idea what kind of beetle this is.  It just jumped out as I was looking for images.  And as usual, I should have carved it just a little smaller.  

Hobbies: Beetle

My cards are called "Entomology." I am pretty happy with them and I look forward to seeing what everyone else made :) 

 

Girl Scouts

This summer I helped local Girl Scouts earn their Letterboxer Badge at day camp.  We had a good time going thru the badge requirements, looking for boxes, learning some LB lingo, and stamping stamps.

Do a Good Turn Daily

I made LTCs and gave them out as SWAPS (Special Whatchamacallits Affectionally Pinned Somewhere).  I had carved this stamp a few years ago but I wasn't happy with it.  

The theme for day camp was Bee the best you can Bee.  So I stamped and embossing my image on bee paper.  I'm pretty happy with them.  I had several extra and I am hosting a Girl Scout LTC swap to pass them on.