Travel Triptych

Good morning.  Before I get back to my Christmas cards, I want to share another triptych I made.  This one is also ATC sized.

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This ATC triptych was made using stamps from The Angel Company.  I love the little "scrabble" tile letters.  I wish TAC was still in business.  I loved their stamps.  

Anyway, this one is for my travel friends.  I used crackle glaze on the "travel" letters and also the labels on each panel.  It was colored with copic markers.

And here is the back:

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I believe these stamps are 7 Gypsies.

Hope you have enjoyed. Now it's back to making Christmas cards for me.

Travel Collage

Good morning! I apologize for not posting recently. I've not been well, but I hope to be back on track now. Today I want to show you three cards that were made with the same stamp, and how differently they look because of their background.

This first card was made by my friend, Shelly. Notice the torn page that was attached to the cardstock, then the image was stamped on the whole thing. I like the look of this.

I stamped the same image on a background made with encaustic wax, then it was cut out and adhered to the cardstock. I like the mixture of colors in this piece.

The next card was made by Barbara Albrecht and uses and alcohol ink background.

The same image looks totally different because of the backgrounds. The stamp used was the Travel Collage Stamp from My Paper Moon.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

My Travel Card

Happy Friday! I hope today was good to you. It's been a long week, and I'm glad the weekend is finally here.

As promised, I'm trying to update my blog more often. Today I want to share a card I made. I'm not good at collage, but I'm trying to force myself to do it more often, so I become better at it.

I tried to use background stamps that would add texture to the card without it being too lumpy. You know how the post office hates lumpy letters! Anyway, let me know what you think....

It's been so cool for the last week, and I'm loving this weather. I wouldn't mind if it stayed like this year round. We've had lows in the 60's at night, and highs in the 70's during the day. Just about perfect, don't you think?

In upcoming posts I will share some of the Christmas cards I've made. I get bored easily, and making the same card over and over and over is just not my cup of tea. So, at the beginning of the year I challenged myself to make 5 cards a month, so by December I would have 60 cards, right? I decided each month I would make the 5 cards the same, but each month would be a different card. I was doing really well, and some months the creativity was there and I would make more than the 5 I was supposed to make. I was really chugging right along. Then I got a note from Soldiers' Angels that they were going to try to send 140,000 cards to the troops for Christmas. Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for the soldiers, since my step-son is among those deployed in Iraq. So, I got busy and made Christmas cards like crazy. You would have thought I was Santa's Elf on deadline. Yesterday I mailed 140 cards. And....I still have about 20 to send to my close friends and relatives that enjoy my handcrafted cards.

Now, here's the best part. I sent a note to my granddaughter's 5th grade teacher asking if they would like to make cards, too, and I would furnish the supplies. The teacher (who's husband is also overseas) thought it would be a good project for their "Caring for Others" module, but she's going to take it a step further and see if the whole elementary school can participate. That's 750 cards! Wowsa! I'm excited!

Talk to you again, soon!