Not sure what was going on, but yesterday was NOT a good day. I was emotional, cranky, tired, and just blah. I had to do laundry and basically just sat around most of the day while I waited for loads to need switching. In the afternoon, I finally decided I needed to do something constructive so I picked crafting. I started by picking a new journal out of my pile of empty journals and grabbing some collage items - paper, stickers, washi. I went to work creating a collage journal page that was space themed. It turned out pretty good for my first attempt. Feeling pretty good, I kept up the crafting momentum and tried a new stamping technique. Not sure what it is called, but I learned about it from another Stampin' Up! demo during a watercolor webinar. You use your ink pads and blending brushes to create a background piece on Fluid 100 watercolor paper. You then take a stamp, lightly mist it with water and press it onto the inked background. Hold for a few seconds, lift it off and then stamp it onto a piece of basic white cardstock. Use a paper towel to blot the inked piece and absorb the excess water/ink. Clean your stamp and repeat as much or as little as you would like. I have been wanting to try that technique since I saw it and finally got the chance to play around. It took me forever to find good color combos and I am pretty pleased with the two I came up with.
Well that took forever :/ I'm kinda mad at myself for putting it off as long as I did, but it's finally finished. So the challenge was to use my Gypsy Wanderings Cartridge and birthday theme paper to create a fairy tale inspired birthday invitation. I originally had an idea in my mind and had it all planned out, but, as per usual, when I started the project everything changed. Anyway, I ended up making a cute little invitation with just the word 'party' on it but the 't' in 'party' had a crown above it. I used pink paper to make a shadow of the word to put behind it and teal paper with lighter colored stars on it for the actual word. I used my Gypsy along with my Cricut to cut the words out which allowed me to copy the word 'party' and maneuver it so just cut the crown was cut out because I didn't want the word and the crown to be all one color. And what fun is a princess crown if it's not gold?!? Once I had them all placed where I wan...
Comments
Post a Comment