Day 14

This design came from Dapple Designs Blog.  I thought it was very fitting for the Relay for Life cards.  Butterfly and ticket stamp are Unity. 

Day 13 A little Glitz

Okay, so I know that I say t his all the time, but this one was really fun.  I can't help but say it, you know?  The paper is a Making Memories 8x8 pack that I picked up a long time ago.  I don't use patterned paper much anymore, so glad I was able to dig into that stash and use some up.  Alpha is the negative of a Heidi Swapp set. 

Flower is Prima. Chipboard, stamp and glitzy ric rac are CTMH.  Flower has Distress Stickles on it, "t" has Marth Stewart glitter. 

I had a link to Caardvarks in my bookmarks and this is one of their sketches that I was going to enter into a contest.  But when I went to submit it, I realized that the link didn't refresh and it was from a contest in September.  Well, it was still fun to do.

Day 12

A little bit more stitching today.  My thread broke four times while doing the zigzag. 

The petals are inlined with straight stitch.

Day 11 Woo Hoo!

Only 354 more to go!  But then, if I make it to the year mark, why quit after that?  Well, we'll see how it all goes.  A few days ago I didn't think I'd make it to a week.

I think the way to keep it alive is to do different techniques and maybe use some stuff I haven't used in a while.  I bought my Pixie sewing machine some time ago, but have only used it a couple times.  I really like to add stitching to my work, but I broke my good Viking by using it on paper so much.  And you know, I consider myself a fairly well accomplished seamstress, but for some reason I haven't mastered this little machine enough to do a straight, straight stitch.  So I decided not to even try when I did the little squares.  But then I found out that I could do not so bad with the other stitch variation, so maybe there's hope for me.

Stamps are probably Inkadinkado, not sure.  Little square are mounted with  pop dots for dimension. I had fun doing this card.

Sunday was a much more "accomplished" day.  Church this morning, made taco salad for late lunch and to Small Group in the evening.  I don't feel quite so much like a loafer now.  Oops, I gave it away, I am posting this (very) early Monday morning, but it is still Day 11 isn't it?

Day 10

I was insired for these little flowers by the new Unity Kit of the Month which I have not received yet (when I actually get the set, I'll do a card so you can see the original).  The embossed circle part of the flowers are Stamps of Life.  The stems and leaves are ctmh.  Sentiment is ctmh. 

I have no more cards in reserve, so we'll see now if I can keep up.  I didn't make one card yesterday.  A first for some time.  In fact, I didn't do much of anything useful yesterday.  We went to see Avatar at noon.  Three hours of sitting in front of the big screen just took too big of a hunk out of my day and I felt like I lost the whole thing.  Does that make sense?  I think it's much nicer when it's in th evening and you've actually had a chance to accomplish something.  Well, today is a new day, let's see what I can make of it.

Day 9 Late Night Inspiration

Well, I didn't do a card all day yesterday.  I've been doing my card the day before I am going to post it so that if something happens and I don't have the time to do it, I still have one ready to go.  But so far, I've always done one a day anyway.  But yesterday I just didn't have the "umph" to go in the scrap room and make one.  But I did surf the web on and off through the day looking for inspiration.  Then I went to bed at my usual time, dozed off for about 20 seconds, then was wide awake thinking about the card that I didn't make.  I wanted to do somthing a little different from what I have been doing.  So I got up and started playing with the alcohol inks.  This is what I came up with.

It has terracotta, currant and sunshine yellow alcohol inks dripped on my glass mat with some blender fluid which I smooshed the clear embossed glossy card stock.  It took a lot of playing with the colors to come up with the desired shade.  I was going to put a word or phrase on it, but decided, like many of my other cards lately, to leave it blank.  I kind of like the way the color kind of pooled on the bottom to make it look like a little hill.  Stamps are T.H. Stampers Anonymous.

I am wondering though if making myself do one card a day is going to make it no more fun, but something that I "have" to do?  If it gets to that point I may stop doing this.  I don't want to make somethng that I have a passion for into something that I am dreading because I have to do it just to keep up.

Today we are going to be off to see Avatar.  I have heard that it's hard to get in, so we are starting at noon, and if we don't get in to that one, we'll try for the one o'clock showing, and if not that one, then the three or four.  I figure we will make it somehow that way.  And the mall, Sam's club and Walmart are right next door to entertain us in the meantime.  I'm sure they love it when the theaters have popular movies!

Day 8

Various stamps, I think they are Technique Tuesday.  I have taken all my acrylics, other than the CTMH, Stampers Anonymous, and Stamps for Life out of their original packaging and put them in binders.  It is great for organization, but now all the ones that I have bought at the stores are unidentifiable. 

Chipboard is Bazzill painted with acrylic and CTMH Creat-a-Shade (I love that stuff cause it gives the acrylic a glossy finish very easily).  Dream stamp is CTMH.  Large pink flower is Heidi Swapp.  I really dug into my sash for this card.  I need to do that more often.