Finally a new card!

well, it's about time eh?? Life has been pure insanity lately, end of the month at work leaves us a bit stressed out and BUSY. I got stuck working both Saturday AND Sunday to get the work out. Here's a comparison...on an average day we are expected to put out between 8-12 "units". Somehow during the big push to get work invoiced before the end of the month I ended up with around 40 units. Yeah that's a few. Then on Saturday my manager and I kinda got our work mixed up so I ended up doing the final work on his as well...which brought my total to 51 units flowing through me by the end of my time on Sunday. That's crazy eh? But I earned Monday off work, and it wont look like a day off on my paycheck since I worked sunday. phew. But I'm wiped out today!

Although not too wiped out to make a card this morning!! I've got several tips for you on the making of this card...so get ready for some reading...lol.


ooooh...ahhhh.....I really enjoy the way this card came together. I find it very relaxing. So here's the deal with this. On the AMR card challenge forum I will be issuing the challenge to go with this card, if you want the details you'll have to jump on over there to play along...

but now for the *tips*!!

Tip #1: No Nestabilities?? No big deal!! For the large shape that my focal image is on, I used my cricut!! it's the "cylinder 1" from the George cartridge, I cut it both on 4" and on 4" plus shadow/blackout. there are so many wonderful cardmaking shapes on the george cartridge, there are two ovals, a circle, squares and rectangles both with pointed corners as well as softened rounded corners! and all of these shapes can nest if you cut them twice, once on shadow set to the same dial size. So in a pinch, dont forget your cricut!!

Tip#2: this is a cricut tip...recently I've started creating a key ring of template shapes for my cricut...i'll photograph it all tomorrow and share that project. BUT, I am cutting all my shapes for cardmaking on plain white cardstock, both regular and shadowed sizes, then labeling them with the shape name and size. This makes it so easy to figure out what size I need to cut for my card, I just hold my stamp up to the pre-cut and labeled shape to see if it will fit!! Like I said, I will put together a detailed post with photos tomorrow to share this with you all, it really has been making life simpler!

Tip#3: Back to the chalking on versamark...there is a video for this technique, see my sidebar video link to see how this is done...So onto the tip, as I was embossing my sentiment I noticed some of my flowers got powder on them...so I dusted all of them. I never realized that even after chalking the versamark it would still hold the powder! SO, here's the tip, to get a "wow" from your chalked images, emboss them with clear detail powder before your ink dries. Just to give you an idea, I didn't emboss for nearly five minutes after chalking my flowers. It stayed wet for quite some time! here's a close up of the embossed flowers:


Hope you all enjoyed todays blog post, it was packed full eh? lol.

oh and the sentiment stamp is from Cloud 9's simple sentiments birthdays set, the flowers are auntumn leaves (rhonna farrer I believe), papers are MME (stripes) and K&C0 wild saffron (dots and lacey teal)