G'Day
from WA :-)
The card
I have today was the card I made for my eldest son Matt's 36th birthday in
2017... just getting around to posting it... and no, it's not the oldest one in
my Drafts folder, lol.
Matt has coulrophobia - a fear of
clowns, so being a loving Mum I'd thought I'd tease hm about it. Well,
not really... I actually thought he'd got past this more than he has, he is
very much better than he was... and it such a nice clown, but.... ah
well. We are a "jokey" family, he took it in the spirit it was
intended, thank goodness.
The image is a digi from Rick St Dennis called,
unsurprisingly, "Clown with Balloons". I coloured with Copics
adding some deeper shadows with Prismacolor pencils. Glossy Accents to
the balloon after adding the numbers "36" with my laser printer and
then foiling them in iridescent foil with the laminator (hard to see in the
pic, pretty effective IRL. I added some fluffy/glittery cotton balls cut
in half on his costume and hat (they DID try to fall apart, but I got 'em,
haha)
The
paper is from a Kaisercraft pad, I only had a bit of the paper on the front
left, so I cut around the edge of the windmills to give a banner-like effect. I
used more paper from the same pad and used the same technique to cut around the
flags on the piece I used on the inside of the card, and some more scraps to
make the pocket to hold the gift card that was Matt's present
I also
foiled the computer-generated sentiment using the laser printer/laminator
technique, not that it looks shiny in this pic, mind you the glitter on the DP
doesn't show up either, sigh
That's
it for today's offering. We are still (technically) in winter here,
though the weather has been really very nice (not that winter is ever
"bad" here... I've lived in England and Wales, I know the difference,
lol) so I've (technically) got a bit more crafting time on hand. It
hasn't quite panned out yet, but I live in hope :-) Work is very quiet,
beyond the seasonal slump... the economy is pretty sluggish at the moment and
hubby and I are enjoying a taster of (semi) retirement... gotta say, we are now
not worried that we'll be bored when we DO retire, we are busy, busy, busy,
lol. My "other" bookkeeping clients are in the same boat, same
industry more or less so no surprise THERE! If we go back to boom times I think
I'll give them up, I'm enjoying the pace I'm at much better, One Power Ball....
Anyway,
I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
Little Red Wagon Digi Do (Use a Digital Image)
Aud Sentiments For
a Child + a Sentiment (Matt's my child, and it IS a "child" image, so I hope my entry fits the bill)
Sweet Stampin' Spots
and/or Stripes (Spots and stripes on the clown's cossie)
Crafty
Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Use Patterned
Paper
Pixies Snippets Playground
Use Snippets (The piece on the front)
Send a
Smile for Kids Anything Goes for Kids (Again, this is a "kid" image, hope it's okay to enter)
Catch The Bug, Cute Card Thursday, The Paper Shelter, Simon
Says Challenge, Through the Craftroom
Door, Digi Choosday, Crafty Creations, Creative
Fingers, Li'l
Patch of Crafty Friends, Polkadoodles, Gem of a Challenge and A Perfect
Time to Craft All have "Anything Goes"
and I thought I'd add a picture of "the new dog", not ours... our son said he would leave it until little Rocky was gone before getting another dog.... true to his word, now Rocky is gone, here's Miss Molly with her new owners, The TwinsShe is a sweet girl, and the kids love her... unlike her previous owners from whom she was rescued... so sad, but now not, she's landed on all four soft little feet :-))
