cartography: noun

Pixie's Crafty Snippet's Playground - #76

( The entire card was made out of snippets: the pine tree paper was so small I had to cut it up into 3 sections to make it look like a bigger piece! The Good times banner is from an OLD sticker sheet, the flower was something given to me ages ago as a RAK, the flower brad lost it's packaging but glad I didn't lose the brad and the bear die cut came from when I worked in a Scrapbook store several years ago! )



Artful Times - #31 Cartography

( Used a section of a North Carolina map, which show cases the area I live in. )



All that Stickles -Linky party ( Distress stickles )


I love my stickles, oh yes I do...but distress stickles....erm....not so much. I love the rest of the Ranger distress line, the markers, inks, paints and re-inkers...but never learned to love my distress stickles. Now I knew I had a couple, but didn't know what colors or where they were in my goodie box. First step was organizing my stickles by color...OK that killed a few minutes of procrastinating before beginning my project, lol I discovered I had 3 Distress and 1 called Glitz....huh? Now where the heck did Glitz stickles come from and what makes it different? I can see today will be a day of discovery!

So I played:

The bar was first painted with Distress Paint in Antique Linen and then stickled. ( least favorite result )The heart was colored with a Broken China Distress marker and then stickled. ( most favorite result ) The shield chipboard was left raw and stickled and then I went over it with Black Soot Distress ink. ( ambivalent result, not as much sparkle, but OK. )

The map was covered with glossy accents.

the card: 

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#8 of my Journal of a Lazy Dieter, going to try out a fruit detox.

 

prosaic: adjective

 characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual

 

 dull, unimaginative

 

everyday, ordinary

pronunciation

( As a side note, I have to say I got tickled yesterday in church when our Preacher coincidentally used the word for the day that I had posted on Sunday. He was talking about the acrostic that we use to remember the colors of the rainbow...do you know it? )
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Hi everyone, it's time for the Frosted designs Monday Inspiration girls to give you a last burst of creativity for the new challenge...are you ready? Now they gave us a LO sketch, but frankly after all the scrapping I did for NSB I was totally out of pictures. Can you believe it? So I converted the sketch into a card.

So I am hoping that if I put my card right next to the sketch, then you will see how I adapted it. Not always the easiest thing to do, but it is doable.

The playing cards came from a museum in Charleston, SC and I've had them like forever. They are too flimsy to actually play with and I never knew quite what to do with them. So glad I hoard  save everything! lol See, that reinforces me to not throw anything away!

The last of my black felt butterflies....sigh....

Colorbok - butterfly

CARDSTV - sentiment stamp

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Ranger - Distress Marker
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My discussion over at Journal of a Lazy Dieter is about the affects of caffeine on your body. I HAVE to cut out the tea and chocolate, heaven help me.

stichomythia: noun

dialogue especially of altercation or dispute delivered by two actors in alternating lines
 (as in classical Greek drama)
pronunciaton
( some words are more fun to pronounce, just wish I had a way to use them )
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digi image + color inspiration + a sketch = a fun card!

Digi Haven - Anything Goes
Inkspirational - #23

combined with:
365 Cards - Day 153  Super Sketchy Sunday

gives me this:

I used the stains and inks to color everything. I have grown quite addicted to this technique and prefer them over water colors. I cut around the little crabs claws so that I could slide the thank you card into them. I think it's cute to have such a little guy offering up huge thanks!

Ranger - Distress Stain, Distress Marker, Dylusional Spray

Paper Smooches - Surf and Turf stamps
Faber Castell - PITT pen
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Over at A Journal of a Lazy Dieter I am dicussing my need to change my body image perspective to something more realistic. If you do pop over there to read it, please give me a "like" to let me know I am not crazy! lol

orotund: adjective

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

 pompous, bombastic

pronunciation
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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!

by and large: adverb

on the whole : in general

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Where do the cards from hell go?

They go into my private bin to be sent to friends, they are cards that for on reason or another cannot be sold. Let's take this one for instance, shall we?

This card has caused me so much trouble right from the beginning. First I really don't make ladybug cards, and it's not because I don't like ladybugs ( I love them ) but I don't like the Cricut images that I have. So I finally decided on one. Now I need female birthday cards and I could NOT find a sentiment I liked for my ladies who buy my cards and it took me like forever to find something I liked.

Not starting this project off well, am I?

Next, the striped paper has a torn edge which I didn't realize until after I was gluing it down. Then, after all was said and done and re-done, I put the yellow background complete with printed sentiment and lady bug, on UPSIDE down and didn't notice until the glue had all but dried. Tore it apart, cussed a little bit, and did it over, but at the last moment scrunched the yellow paper this time inserting it into the photo corners. ....sigh....really?

Even taking a picture of this card turned into a chore. Had the perfect place and then, wham, bright sunlight complete with shadows. Seriously? Even when I got around to editing it I can see little paper dusty thingies on it, you probably can too if you enlarge it. But as for me, by and large, I don't care, I'm just glad it's done!

entering this "fabulous" creation in:

Bitten by the Bug - Lady Bug Challenge

Cricut - Paisley, p. 27

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Reminisce - white pen

 

I just noticed I have the word "hell" twice in my post, I hardly ever do that.

oh hell, make it 3 times

:)

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Have you ever heard of Food Combining? I'm going to give it a go and see if it makes a difference. I wrote an article about it on my other blog:

Journal of a Lazy Dieter

nonpareil: adjective

having no equal

 

pronunciation

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Hello to my wonderful WOYWW friends.

First I want to thank EVERYONE who voted for me, sadly I didn't win, but it sure is nice to know I have such wonderful friends who took the time out to vote and encourage me on. I will still have the book made ( and they will give me 2 ) so I plan on giving one away.

So keep tuned for that if you are interested. :)

((( big group hug )))

 

 

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well, just in case it isn't I added a few words of my own on it! HA! The Gardening Mojo is stronger than the Creative Mojo today but they are fighting for equal control over me on most days.

 

Hope everyone is having a fun peek around the world :)

I know I will!

and if you are new to this concept, anyone can join, take a picture of your crafting table and link up, it's fun and you'll meet a lot of great ladies and a few men :)

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Started trying to be a little healthier aka dieting last month. If you are interested, you can go here to read about the recap of last month, won't bore anyone with the deets on my blog so this is a seperate account. It's called

Journal of a Lazy Dieter....uhm, yep, that would be me!

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Craftin Desert Diva's - Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party #7 Ribbon or Twine

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Brought to you by the letter S ( stickles )

Simon Says - Anything Goes

Paper Smooches - June 3-9 Trend Watch challenge

 

I didn't have a Smooches stamp that I felt would work with the gold theme so I used the free digital stamp, which I love. Those gift bags are too cute and very easy to color! I'm not sure this is a CAS card but since I sell my cards; my customers want a little more layering and frou frou sometimes. And my girlfriend birthday cards for the ladies are my top selling cards, so I cannot disappoint them!

 

 

The gift bags were printed out twice. Once on the base card along with the sentiment and then on card stock where I used several different golds to get different textures and dimension.Cut out the image and then pop dotted up it up.

 

Ranger - Gold stickles

Faber Castell - Metallic Gold Gelato, Metallic Gold PITT Pen

Sakura - Gold Gelly Roll Pen

misc. Gold floss and ribbon

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