MDSM33

A nice, simple sketch this week at MDS Monday!

My granddaughter was having so much fun playing with the baby in the mirror when we were out shopping last weekend.  I got some great video along with these cute photos.

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Carol

Twisted Challenge 07 - Faux Patina

I had to give some thought to how to twist up this week's challenge from The Technique Twist of Faux Patina.  I have never tried this one before.  So I watched the video the ladies suggested.

I twisted the technique by using crisp cantaloupe for my base and using different colors for the flowers and stems and leaves.  I used crumb cake on my embossing folder, then sponged on crisp cantaloupe and then calypso coral onto my flowers.  For the leaves and stems I used wild wasabi, then garden green.  I then sponged on early espresso over the whole piece.  Dabbed on some versamark and gold embossing powder and heat set it.  I am fairly happy with my faux patina panel except for the gold.  I got a little too heavy with it and also have some places where the corner of the versamark pad shows up too much.  But remember this is my first one!

I layered my faux patina panel onto some wild wasabi and wrapped some calypso coral ribbon around that and added a couple of candy dot brads in the calypso coral.  Then adhered the panel to a crisp cantaloupe card base.

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Carol

MDSM32

Reaching back a few months for the pics I am using for the sketch from MDS Monday this week.  I found the poem on Scrapbook.com and I just realized that I didn't get the name of the author on my page.  And being a librarian, I know that is taboo!  The poem was written by Shelley Howington.  I will fix that on my page.

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Carol

MDSM31

The sketch from MDS Monday was a little time-consuming but fun.  And I can save the layout to use another time!  And, of course, there is my sweet little granddaughter!

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Carol

The Technique Twist #6

I almost didn't do the challenge at The Technique Twist this week.  Bleach and I do not get along very well.  Bothers my asthma.  Then I saw that Jessica used a bleach pen for her card and thought I would try that.  I was going to use it to highlight my flowers from Flower Shop.

Well my pen was so old that it didn't work at all.  So I got out an old aqua pen and used that to brush on some bleach.  The bottom flower was the first one I did and I don't like it as well as the second, but I needed to get away from the bleach so I decided it would do okay for the card.  I set my flowers aside for a couple of days to let all the smell go away.

I am happy with the way this card turned out.  I doubt that I use this technique very much, but it was good to try it once.

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Carol

Top Three at The Technique Twist

My card shown here was chosen one of the top three at The Technique Twist.  Thanks so much, ladies!

MDSM30

Great sketch at MDS Monday this week!  Great fit for this cute pic of my granddaughter.  I love the look on her face.

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Carol