Sunday, August 18, 2013

You Make My Heart Smile! MIM!




I had just a few moments to play in my crafty space today. On my way outside now to paint some bookshelves for my classroom.  I am hoping the clouds stay back long enough for the paint to dry. Oh dear!  

This card is truly out of my comfort zone.  It is quirky and whimsical.   I am playing along with this week's Papertrey's Make It Monday Challenge.  We are to use crayon resist technique.  I generally love this technique; however, I had some issues with my crayon.  I have a white twist up crayola crayon.  I am thinking the wax content is either really low or really old at this point.  A lot of my ink just absorb over the crayon area anyway.  I used white crayon on all the back frames so the white would show through.  I used the crayon on the accent images as well as the focal sentiment area.  Luckily, that showed pretty well.   

I do prefer to do this technique with high gloss paper, but I did not have any.  I made my focal point quirky and try to keep the whole card whimsical.  I searched my stash of PTI images and realized I have very few if any outlined stamps.  Hmmm.   In keeping with the whimsical, quirky theme, I cut some pom poms off of a roll of pom pom fringe and added to my seam binding bow.  Finished with a couple touches of gems.  
 Cute and fun!  Makes my heart SMILE!

As always thanks so much for stopping by!

Betty

4 comments

  1. Betty, this makes my heart simile too! Love the bright colors and that you stamped the 'handmade' on the top. The pons were the perfect accent!

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  2. Oh my...this is just about too darn cute. I love how you used that little frame, just too sweet.

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  3. What a fun card Betty! Love the rhinestones and pom poms!

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  4. love your whimsical card Betty-its good to get taken out of our design comfort zone-I think it expands us as an artist-you did a great job

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