Here is the second panel pulled out. Notice the care I took to make sure my designer paper lined up and my clothes line lined up!! UGH! Look at all of that laundry!
The final panel pulled out. Doesn't it feel like that sometimes??? You will see there is a mix match of socks. I did that on purpose because some socks just seem to go to heaven and we never find the mate. Peggysue, I made the purple ones on the right hand side with you in mind. They remind me of some of the sock yarn we use.
Here is my final card made with the Pansy set by Clear Dollar Stamps. I thought of the Tri shutter card technique when I was thinking of the last design to make. I wanted to stay away from purple for the colors. I have 12x12 designer pattern paper in Perfect Plum and this technique calls for 12x12 paper. By default I used purple again. This card actually took me two days to make! Egads! I just couldn't get the "T" paper cut right. I finally gave up and went to bed Saturday night. Sunday I got up and easily made the cuts. I went to go take a shower and DS3, whose is 23 months old, scribbled on my paper!! I highly recommend making a template for this part of the card so you don't have to make all the mistakes I made. I used a whole sheet of 12x12 paper to make this card. That is so not right.
A picture of card opened up.
A view from a different angle. Can you see that I outlined the white box with piercing?? I don't have one of those cool hole-y mats from SU, so I used a ruler and a paper piercer.
Above, a new picture taken outside.
I wish you could see better that the bird on the left is sitting on the branches. The bird is adhered to the top of the card and when flat it looks as if it's feet are resting on the branches. I drew in the branches. I am not sure what kind of birds these are and whether or not they are in a region that has evergreens! But that's the only tree branch I can draw. I sponged the sky with a torn piece of paper, sponge and bashful blue. I paper pierced the clothes and colored in the clothes pins with brown. Oh shoot, I forgot to add glossy accents to the beaks and feet. I better go back and do that!
This is my third design using Bee-utiful Ballerina by Clear Dollar Stamps. I decided she needed to be upright this time. I inked her body intentionally staying away from her leg and positioned the block so she would be upright. I used blue stickles on her wings and watercolored behind her with bashful blue. The layout is from my friend, Berly (pronounced Barley). I really liked her layout and CASED it here. The designer paper is all from The Glitter Mat Stack.
This is a 3x3 post it note holder. I bought the template and cardboard inserts at Michael's. It in the section of paper making. This is a fun easy project to make and the sky is the limit for decorations. I used the Pansy set from Clear Dollar Stamps (BTW, have you checked out the new website??) and the various embellishments are from here and there, where ever I find them!
Here's another example of the stamp set by Clear Dollar Stamps, "Bee-utiful Bee". I wanted to try not using pink. I keep gravitating to pink since she's a ballerina so I forced myself to try a different color. I found the patterned paper in a pack called The 180 Pack. I liked that it had the yellow in it to tie in the bee aspect of the stamp. This layout is no where near what I had in mind! I like it though! I accidentally tore off the girl's antenna when I was scrubbing the stamp. I fudged. I drew it in. Can you tell?
Here the false rim is woven in. The false rim is the two rows of round reed which will be covered by the real rim. This allows the rim to sit on something and not be floating in the air.
The spokes that have a weaver in front of it (as you look at it) are cut flush. The ones with a weaver to the outside are trimmed, pointed and tucked to the inside of the basket.
Bad photo. You can see all of the weavers are now tucked to the inside and the false rim is ready to be placed.
The rim is secured with zip ties. As I lash the basket I will cut out the zip ties.
Lashing the basket together.
The weaving is all done and the ends are all tucked.
Here's the basket in the staining the process. I like to use Danish Oil. My favorite color is Fruitwood.
The basket is all done!! It is now drying and airing out. This stain is quite stinky and will give headaches if not in a well ventilated area. I will wait to ship it.
The first step was to put in all of the spokes (the vertical reed) in the groove of the base.
Here I anchored the spokes with #2 round reed using a chase weave.
This is the first three weavers (horizontal reeds) in place. Once the third row is in place the basket will hold its shape.
A few more rows woven in and a look at my work space (translation: the kitchen counter)
I received this from Lois and now I pass it on to my Mom and Peggysue. It is an award of the people who are the friends in your life. Well, I think Moms automatically get the award. Lately I have been having a lot of fun conversations with my dear dork sister, Peggysue. We even got together last weekend (scroll down and you can see the pictures) to have lunch, buy some yarn and knit together. I am not doing the whole 5 people as you are supposed to because I don't want to use up all of the dork names.
This is my first card using the Pansy set. It looks a little tilted because I put it on my silk scarf. I was trying to add to the silkness of the card because I used the faux silk technique. When I cropped the photo though I lost most of the scarf in the picture. Oh well! This was a fun and super easy technique. If you want to see how to do it go to CDS's blog. There is a tutorial there.
These are the pictures I took with my camera. I will swap these out when my neighbor takes a better photo. When I first saw this stamp set, Hanging Out, I immediately thought of christmas stockings hanging on the fire place even though it is a summer themed stamp set. I went through the CDS designer gallery to see if anyone else had the same idea, but I didn't see one like it. Yay for me! I didn't know what I would do to make it look like the stockings were on the fireplace so I sponged in some red and yellow to give the illusion of a fire. The patterned paper and the tree came from Bitty Scrap-Pads "it's Christmas". I stamped each stocking on a different sheet of PP and then pasted them onto the clothes line.
This is my Beautiful Ballerina! I saw a layout in Traci Major's blog that I liked. You can visit her blog here. I left out one element from the layout because it would have covered the background too much.
These pictures are out of order. This one is supposed to be last. At this point we had fondled the yarn and made our purchases. It was time to sit, relax, knit and repeat!
Here I am trying to decide which yarn I wanted to buy and putting the ones I didn't buy on my wish list.
Peggysue was MUCH faster at choosing a yarn than I was. Here she is in the background while her yarn is being made into a ball. Fancy, expensive yarns come in hanks not balls. Then you have to ball it. If you buy hanks from a LYS (Local yarn shop) they will wind it for free. The shop owner is winding the yarn.
Here I am cuddling the 100% silk yarn. I fell in love with this yarn. I kept going back to it, feeling it and wanting it. I didn't buy it though. Maybe some day when Peggysue wins the lottery. (She told me she'd buy some for me when she buys the lottery. I sure hope she plays the lottery!)
