When my daughter was hours old, I sang "you are my sunshine". Because (as I wrote on one of the clouds, she was and she is). The second song I sang to her was the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies, because I had exhausted my repertoire of lullabies.
That fabulous sunshine paper was in my first kit (A Sassafrass Summer) from Club Ruby Designers. Wendy the Bling Queen did a fabulous layout, but I needed two pages and I only wanted to use one of my sunshine sheets and we live in a single sun solar system (sorry toooo much Star Trek), so I put my twist on it.
Using the very technical string tied around a pencil, I measured out the distance I wanted my circular cut to be, held the end of the string at the corner and drew an arc on the back of the paper. Then I cut along the line and kept the scrap for a future project.
I welded “You” to the top of one of the clouds on the Gypsy, and “are” to the bottom of another one. Welded “my sunshine” to a circle that I had partially off the page. The clouds are from Going Places, the lettering is Doodletype. The clouds are cut from Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select White Cardstock at a pressure of 4 and a regular blade set at 3. I also used a really sticky mat, not brand-new-anything-you-stick-to-me-will-have-to-be-pried-off-sticky, but really sticky :D.
From a 3 inch strip of paper off the green print paper in the kit, I cut some hills out with scissors. If it makes it easier, you could also draw hills on the back of the strip.
I used a sepia micro pen for stitching everything except the sun, and for that I used a white gel pen. If I had to do it over again, I would have used a bolder font or put another larger circle big enough to go under the “my sunshine” so it would stand out more. DD’s picture will go in the sunshine mat when I find it lol.
A side note about welding letter to shapes with the Gypsy. I put my shape on one layer, then I make another layer and line the lettering up on the second layer. If everything is on the same layer it’s too easy to accidentally pick up the shape and get everything out of kilter. When I have everything lined up where I want, I hit the save button. Then go to the first layer and click on the shape, then go to the lettering layer and hit the paste button. Then I use the arrows to line up the shape just the way I want it, save again :D.
I hope to have the link Gypsy file posted soon, if you are interested :D.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Let's Get Organized, Organized... erm *looks around, and starts again* ... Let's Get More Organized, Organized.
You know the tune (sing it to Olivia Newton John's "Lets' Get Physical). So this is my work table lol. I just finished one entry for a contest, one card for a series with others, and I'm working on another entry, a blog hop and some things just for fun. And the Halloween stamps are being used as part of my stamp every stamp I have campaign.
You'll note the clearing to the right... That's only there because the Cricut mat would get stuck otherwise and that would waste paper lol. If you are wondering why I have Cricut cartridges out as well as my Gypsy, the answer is, there are three things better without the Gypsy. Plus if you are going to use the very lovely Graphically Speaking, it's a lot easier with the handbook. After this batch is done, I really need to get to work :D.
Only now I've given myself an earworm lol . You don't hear Olivia warbling?? Noooo good deed goes unpunished lol. But seriously my mojo moves out of the house if this surface is empty. Cluttered desk is to cluttered mind what empty desk is to... Maybe I could make a cute little mojo house!
If you want to see what other work areas look like go here.
You'll note the clearing to the right... That's only there because the Cricut mat would get stuck otherwise and that would waste paper lol. If you are wondering why I have Cricut cartridges out as well as my Gypsy, the answer is, there are three things better without the Gypsy. Plus if you are going to use the very lovely Graphically Speaking, it's a lot easier with the handbook. After this batch is done, I really need to get to work :D.
Only now I've given myself an earworm lol . You don't hear Olivia warbling?? Noooo good deed goes unpunished lol. But seriously my mojo moves out of the house if this surface is empty. Cluttered desk is to cluttered mind what empty desk is to... Maybe I could make a cute little mojo house!
If you want to see what other work areas look like go here.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
If you didn't win the Papertrey Ink Four of a Kind stamp set here...
Or even if you did win the Papertrey Ink CHA exclusive, go here to read about CHA from Papertrey Ink's perspective :D. There are also some giveaways. BTW, when my sister and I got in line it was already wayyyy outside the booth. Over an hour in line (and if you know me well, you know lines just aren't something I do willy nilly), and TOTALLY worth it :D.
Labels:
CHA Supershow,
Four of a Kind set,
Papertrey Ink
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Blog Candy Winners
The winner of the CHA exclusive Papertrey Ink stamp set is:
Michele said...
Your cards are beautiful.
August 28, 2010 7:21 AM
I'm waiting to hear from Andi who won the Sans Serif Solutions Font cartridge from the first blog candy Andi, please reply to the email I sent (check the spam folder?).
Congratulation to you both!!
I can be contacted at ohhhsnapper dot gmail dot com. : D
Michele said...
Your cards are beautiful.
August 28, 2010 7:21 AM
I'm waiting to hear from Andi who won the Sans Serif Solutions Font cartridge from the first blog candy Andi, please reply to the email I sent (check the spam folder?).
Congratulation to you both!!
I can be contacted at ohhhsnapper dot gmail dot com. : D
Monday, August 30, 2010
A new to me blog, you gotta see.
Thanks to my second oldest younger sister, I found this blog. I wish I had thought of it when mine was little lol.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Papertrey Ink CHA Exclusive Stamp Set - Four of a Kind
If you were lucky enough to go to the Papertrey Ink booth at the Summer 2010 CHA Supershow, you probably know all about the exclusive stamp set made just for the show. If you weren't lucky enough to get a set then, this is your chance to win a set courtesy of my oldest younger sister!
All you have to do to be entered in the random drawing is leave a comment in this post before 11:59 pm EDT Monday, August 30, 2010. I pick the winning post Tuesday, August 31. If you have the winning post, you'll have 2 weeks to claim the stamp set.
Here are some cards I made with my own set.
All you have to do to be entered in the random drawing is leave a comment in this post before 11:59 pm EDT Monday, August 30, 2010. I pick the winning post Tuesday, August 31. If you have the winning post, you'll have 2 weeks to claim the stamp set.
Here are some cards I made with my own set.
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Blog Candy,
card,
CHA,
Die,
Embellishment,
Four of a Kind set,
Papertrey Ink,
Rubberstamp,
Tea for Two set
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
First Ever Blog Candy Winner
The winner of the Sans Serif Solutions Font cartridge is:
Andi said...
Great banner! I made a 1/2 birthday one for my niece and used a sheer ribbon too! Great job! Thanks for the chance to win.
Andi
Congratulations Andi! I sent you an email, please respond within 2 weeks so I can send the cartridge off to you :D.
Andi said...
Great banner! I made a 1/2 birthday one for my niece and used a sheer ribbon too! Great job! Thanks for the chance to win.
Andi
Congratulations Andi! I sent you an email, please respond within 2 weeks so I can send the cartridge off to you :D.
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