One of my brothers has undergone major surgery in the past few days. He is starting to feel more engaged with the world as the need for pain medication eases and healing commences so I thought I would make a card for Tim to take when he visits later today. I must mention that I have planned a visit to town for him...
I made a similar card for a CAS challenge a few weeks ago and thought I could spiffy it up a tad.
I really like the quirky little birds as they lend themselves to many interpretations, particularly non-flowery ones!
I simply printed out the sentiments, both for the card base and the interior page, from my computer.
I like doing this as I can size, fontisise (think I may have just made that word up!), and colour the sentiment to suit whatever I am doing. It also frees me to use whatever form of words I prefer, as I find my sentiment stamps are very limiting, seemingly however many I purchased in the past...
The trick is to get the sentiment placed correctly on the cardstock, and, if using paper with a design (like the spotted interior page), have it print straight.
All my printers, and I have 3 in constant use, one on standby, have a gremlin ability to slightly offset the paper, only sometimes mind, as when the fancy takes them...or when you have added the only remaining sheet of your preferred design...or when you are in a steaming hurry...but today none of those issues were in play and all the stars aligned.
Close examination of the images indicates a good outcome! The card base is usually less critical as the card can always be trimmed slightly to accommodate any slight discrepancy, if required.
I made a similar card for a CAS challenge a few weeks ago and thought I could spiffy it up a tad.
I really like the quirky little birds as they lend themselves to many interpretations, particularly non-flowery ones!
I simply printed out the sentiments, both for the card base and the interior page, from my computer.
I like doing this as I can size, fontisise (think I may have just made that word up!), and colour the sentiment to suit whatever I am doing. It also frees me to use whatever form of words I prefer, as I find my sentiment stamps are very limiting, seemingly however many I purchased in the past...
The trick is to get the sentiment placed correctly on the cardstock, and, if using paper with a design (like the spotted interior page), have it print straight.
All my printers, and I have 3 in constant use, one on standby, have a gremlin ability to slightly offset the paper, only sometimes mind, as when the fancy takes them...or when you have added the only remaining sheet of your preferred design...or when you are in a steaming hurry...but today none of those issues were in play and all the stars aligned.
Close examination of the images indicates a good outcome! The card base is usually less critical as the card can always be trimmed slightly to accommodate any slight discrepancy, if required.
The 15 cm (6") single layer card with the computer generated sentiment. The birds are stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with various markers.
The internal sentiment was printed from the computer and the largest of the bird stamps applied after the paper was cut to size. I stamped another bird head onto a scrap of the cardstock, coloured it with the same markers as used on the front, fussy cut it out, blacked up the edge and glued it in place with some Tombow MM. I added tiny gold dots to his tail feathers as a finishing touch.
One of our weekend guests, Bonnie, watching TV...
Hollie, WE Guest No. 2, did NOT enjoy the river walk!
Bonnie, on the other hand, was in clover...there were lots of ducks and exciting smells along the river bank, more than enough to keep her happy, anyway.
Sarah captured this lovely photograph of a Superb Wren during their camping trip in the Huon Valley this past weekend...isn't he beautiful?
Better trot, things to do...see you soon I hope.
Bye now,
Di
Bye now,
Di
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