orotund: adjective

marked by fullness, strength, and clarity of sound : sonorous
 

 pompous, bombastic

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Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #40 Fantasies and Fairies

Technique Time Tuesday - Faux Chalkboard challenge

I wanted to use the word "chalk" in my sentiment because I was afraid that the customers who buy my cards might not understand that it's suppose to look a little smudgy and chalkboard-ish. For the first time in a long time, I dragged out those teeny tiny letter stamps and just let them be random upper and lower case and wonky, kinda like my handwriting on a chalk board, lol I also reinforced the white lettering with a marker to make sure it showed up well.

I have to admit that I have mixed emotions about this technique. I guess I feel ambivalent about it. Maybe I just need time to get use to it, it took me awhile to come around to other trends too.

Close To My Heart - white embossing powder

Ranger - Distress marker, stickles

VersaMark

Ink it Up! - white

Stampin' Up! - embossing buddy

border stamp - misc

papers from stash

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On my blog, Journal of a Lazy Dieter, I am discussing kitchen exercises. I mean what better place to exercise where you are planing on shoving some food into your mouth? Makes you think twice before doing it! Oh, and you don't have to leave a comment but a click on "like" means you are supporting me through my diet. Thanks!

WYSIWYG: noun

a display generated by word-processing or desktop-publishing software that exactly reflects the document as it would appear in its finished state

pronunciation

( ok, this one is fun to say )

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For the man in Your Life challenge

We are sponsored this month by Dilly Beans Stamps

and I have used image # 439 - Wired Robot Framed

I love his little embossed face and his big bug eyes! 

This little guy was printed 3 times, once on regular card stock and twice over Aluminium Tape which was adhered over copy paper. ( Heat embossing it each time. ) Cut the antenna out from one image and adhered it over the card stock image. Then cut the eyes out from the other image and pop dotted them over the the card stock image.

I have to admit that I wouldn't have added the heart on my own, but sometimes God likes to craft along beside me and he had me smudge the corner, and he also guided me to find something to cover it. Now that it's done I think the red heart was a perfect addition and cannot imagine it not being there.

also entering this in:

Cards for Men - #11 Dad
CARDZTV - #30 Father's Day challenge
Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Father's Day

encumber: verb

 

weigh down, burden

 

to impede or hamper the function or activity of : hinder

 

 to burden with a legal claim (as a mortgage)

pronunciation

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Pan Pastels - #22 Tag It

 

 

 

Cricut - Country Life crtridge, p. 41 ( sheep )

Stretch Your Imagination , p.80 ( tag )

Every Day Paperdolls, p.40 ( sun )

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Jillibean Soup - Twine 

Ranger - Liquid Pearls

Faber Castell - PITT pens

 

pertain: verb

to belong as a part, quality, or function 

 to be appropriate to something

 to have reference

pronunciation

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Hi everyone, here is your Monday inspiration over at Frosted Designs where our new challenge is to use punches. What do you mean it's not Monday? sshhhh....don't tell on me, I am posting this a day early, you really weren't suppose to notice!  I do hope you go over and see what the other lovely ladies on my DT have come up with, the creativity astounds me sometimes!

OK, so coloring on the canvas was a wee bit of a learning curve. When it's wet my gelatos ran...so had to wait for it to dry and then went back in with my pens to try and straighten out the coloring a bit. They color much better with markers. I added some glitter to the wings.

I admit I don't have many punches. I never invested in them especially after getting my Cricut machine, but I have a waterfall punch and used it here on the bottom of my card.

Little Yellow Bicycle - Acorn Hollow pattern paper, canvas bee
Faber Castell - PITT pens, gelatos
Traveling Typewriter - font

This weeks sponsor is :

Boys Rule Kits

And by playing along, you could win this....

So get punching!

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I seem to "bee" working a theme here :) 

I think it's bee-cause I've been out in the garden working lately!

entering this bee-utiful card in:

( last bee pun, promise! )

Inkspirational sketch challenge

 The honeycomb was made using paints and a stencil with my gelli plate.

Cricut - Art Nouveau, p. 56

Plaid paints

ZIG - writer

Traveling Typewriter - font

Ranger - Glossy Accents

American Crafts - Mr. Huey's stencil

Faber Castell - PITT pen

redaction: noun

an act or instance of preparing something for publication

 an act or instance of obscuring or removing something from a document prior to publication or release

 edition, version

pronunciation

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Craftin Desert Diva's - #5 Use a Pun

Moxie Fab -  The Wonder of Watercolor challenge

Did a little ombre coloring for type writer paper by first cover the it with water and then starting with red watercolor at the bottom and yellow at the top and blending the top down to the bottom. Then after it dried I ran it through the printer for the punny sentiment.

Love the colored typewriter keys! I used my box of Bruynzeel water color pencils to color in the top of each key, mixing the colors as I went along to get a color wheel type effect.

The typewriter was a clip art image that I printed out and since my ink from my printer is not compatible with water, I just went with the flow ( another pun, lol ) I used the ink to shade the typewriter, I think it turned out pretty cool. 

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Allie Gower from My Card Party made my day by making me this!

So that's the closest I'll ever get to having Ryan Goslin say my name!

She also made this FB header for my page too!

And she made my watermark..how do you like it?

I can't get over how easy it is to use!

 I highly recommend her, she is extremely talented!

Watermark by MyCardParty

She has a ½ coupon good through April 19th

MAY42013

hackneyed: adjective

lacking in freshness or originality

 

pronunciation

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( I turned the sketch on it's side )

 

Here is my card for the DCWV April's Stack-a-holic Template challenge using the Animal Crackers Stack, and I have to tell you that it's been awhile since I have had this much fun making a card.

 

 

First off, this is one brightly colored stack, that's what drew me to it in the first place. I love all the glittered pages but it caused me some problems in the beginning of the sketch as all the colors were competing against one another...but I rubbed some Ranger's Distress Ink over the leaf portions to tone the white background down, and wow..instant resist!! ( Ink it and then rub off with a paper towel any ink left on the glittered leaves! ) Now I began to enjoy the process a little more!

 

One of my favorite pages from this stack is a page of toucans, and I love to cut them out to use. I fussy cut this one, outlined him with my Faber Castell PITT pen pop dotted him to try and separate him a little more from the background elements.

I also love this sentiment which I printed off the computer, the Happy Birthday is a stamp from CARDZTV.

 

Now how many times can you say that you have giggled at an element that you created? I wanted to make it a birthday card so that I could also enter it in Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Birthday. ( second entry ) I knew I wanted to add a birthday balloon in the toucans beak, so I had this Balloon shaped raindot by Cloud9 that I wanted to use and I was randomly placing it over images from the stack trying to figure out what would work and when I placed it over the monkey I actually LOL'd! Come on...I know you're smiling too!

It looks to me like the monkey somehow ended up inside the balloon and is quite surprised about it himself!! I think the toucan has an evil sense of humor if you ask me!

 

Also entering this in

 Crafty Cardmakers - Challenge 88 Humor

Sparkles Monthly Challenge #42 - Birds

Sister Act Card Challenge - #1 Anything Goes

 



nascent: adjective

coming or having recently come into existence

pronunciation

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It's Tuesday and it's time for our new challenge which is:

 'Recycle It' 

Our challenge is to use old packages, plastic boxes string etc and upcycle them!!

Go check out what my fellow DT members created, I was blown away with their creativity!

 

 

I love this challenge! I have 2 little old ladies who live on the ground floor and I enjoy making then surprises to have. I took a half an egg carton and embellished it. First applying some coordinating pattern paper to cover the top.

 

 Little Scrap Pieces is having a challenge to use a hand made embellishment.

I made washi tape or faux ribbon, however you want to look at it, lol I took masking tape and laid it out on a piece of wax paper ( so it would lay flat to work on it, yet wouldn't stick ) Then I rubbed some Ranger Distress Stain on it and spritzed it with water. Then made faux stitching lines on it with a Distress Marker. Great way to trim the egg carton since it's tape.Added a small flower with a drop of Liquid Pearls to finish it off.

Tied it up with some scrumptious Really Reasonable Ribbon and filled it with fun Easter goodies...yum..snacked on a few of them myself ;)

Over at Anything but a Card they are asking you to create something Spring or Alice in Wonderland related, and this definitely falls into the spring category!

 

Our sponsor for this month's challenge is Craft-embellies with a  £10 store voucher.

( currency convertor )

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Name That Synonym:

 Fill in the blanks to create a synonym of "nascent":

  i_c_p_e_t

Answer found here...you didn't think I'd tell you, did you?

 

demotic: adjective

of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing

or

 common, popular

and

 of or relating to the form of Modern Greek that is based on everyday speech

pronunciation

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Yesterday was the second day of spring...huh? I woke up to this and thought I must be dreaming!

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entering this little bunny in:

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #107 Use a bunny

So do you eat the tail or the ears first?

Ears for me, lol...although I haven't had a chocolate bunnies in eons!

Cricut  Craft Room - Easter Seasonal 2010

( This was offered in the CCR as a free cut, made my base card shape and then the cover, and the bow )
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Inkspirational Challenge #12



I love having a sketch challenge and trying to come up with an alternate way to do it yet keep within the parameters of the sketch requirements. I was worried at first at the mono chromatic aspect to the challenge but once I began digging through my stash it all came together on it's own. I just love that!

I have used Liquid Scrapdots for many tiny things before but I think this little bee that I fussy cut out is the tiniest of them all!

ANOTHER reason I love Liquid Scrapdots is the layering effect. I know that twine and burlap aren't that thick, but when you want your die cut to "float" equal to the material; it sure makes that feat possible with Liquid Scrapdots. With pop dots, you have a height you cannot manipulate, but with LSD, anything is possible! I used the LSD under the flower and under the top portion of the clay pot.

American Crafts - pattern paper
Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination cartridge, p. 80 ( tag )
Close to my Heart - ink marker
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Hemp ribbon ( bow )
Prima - flower ribbon
Helmar - 450, Liquid scrapdots
K&Co. - Gem
Ranger - Liquid Pearls
rub on sentiment,twine, clay pot, glitter flower, burlap - misc.

Reminder: Paper Playtime has their Challenge #6 to Use a Bee up an running.

Test Your Memory: What former Word of the Day begins with "L" and can be a synonym of "generosity"? The answer is ...

answer at bottom of post :)

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Kicking heels up...I'm designing for Paper Playtime!! woo hoo!! Here is my first card for their challenge, Anything Goes! I hope you play along with us!!

Ch#5 Anything Goes

Begins: Mon, Mar 4

Ends: Sun, Mar 17

Prize $15 Gift Cert. from The Robin's Nest

Winner announced in the WINNERS Page Tab

Here's what I created for this challenge:

 And because the "hill" which has a sewed edge lifts up the sheep, I added a thin layer of Liquid Scrapdots under it's body and regular glue under it's feet. That way his feet aren't higher than his body. I hope that makes sense.

Cricut Cartridge - Country Life, p. 42
( First time I used this cartridge, Jamie gave it to me for my birthday!! Thanks again Jamie!!)
Sakura -  Gelly Roll pen
Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots
paper - all from my scraps
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Largesse

 



liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior; also : something so given

or

generosity

 

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