My first introduction to greeting cards started when I was born. My parents kept these cards from gifts they received and added them to a baby book. This is not an unusual custom but its worthy of making a statement about it. Family over the years sent cards of all sizes depicting the season or holidays while some were kept and others lost with time.
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Craft Supplies, tools and Craft Room what’s liked and disliked
Do you have favorite craft supplies or tool(s) or thing(s) in your craft room? Do you have a favorite space in your craft room or what do you like the most about your craft room? What do you have craft supplies or tool(s) that you dislike and why? Do you have a section of your craft room that you dislike the most? If there was anything about your craft room or space that you disliked how would you change it?
Let’s dive in and try to answer some of these questions. I’m sure many of you have often wondered about these questions from some of your favorite crafters and those you read online. I will admit I’ve wondered some of these questions myself. So lets take a look at the questions individually.
Question #1. Do you have favorite craft supplies or tools?
My most favorite tools are my pencils, pens, and colored pencils. I can achieve a lot with them. My most favorite craft supplies are my white card stock. I can place nearly any thing I want to achieve on white card stock.
Question #2. Do you have a favorite space in your craft room or what do you like the most about your craft room?
My most favorite space in my craft room is my desk. My desk is an old vintage desk and my husband brought it home. He had intended to use it for himself but the wife adopted it from day one. (Wife Rules! lol) What I like the most about my craft room is the window. I can see everything I need to from that window. It gives me a wonderful view of tree’s and everyone who passes by.
Question #3. Do you have craft supplies or tools that you dislike and why?
I can honestly say yes. Craft Supplies that are so old that they no longer work. I have tools that are hard to use and some are so old that they have broken. They will soon beheading to the garbage been. I mean they are so far gone that they can’t be repaired or reused in some other form.
Question #4. Do you have a section of your craft room you dislike the most?
My current craft room has been a wonderful area to work in when I first started out my journey. As I grew so did my supplies and tools. I have visualized that soon I will need to find more space for more tools and supplies. With that in mind my craft room now has become too small. So I guess I could say I dislike the fact that my craft room has become too small for my needs.
Question #5. If there’s anything about your craft room or space that you disliked how would you change it?
Yes. Let me explain why! My craft room is not a normal Square. Its more like crossing two sticks together. That’s my craft room. Its not very wide and its not very long. My hopes that in a few years that I will have a much bigger room to have as a craft room.
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5 Craft Room Declutter Ideas
What are 5 ways to declutter a craft room? Do you have unrelated items in your craft room? Do you have items in your craft room that you have had for years but never used them? Can you name 5 ways to declutter your craft room? How often do you declutter your craft room? Do you use the same tactics for decluttering the craft room as you do for the rest of the household? How does the clutter of the craft room effect your mood?
Breakdown
Let’s break down each question into smaller bite size chunks. The first question is what are 5 ways to declutter a craft room? According to www.au.reachout.com they advise using these solutions to declutter your mind. A few of the ideas could be applied to decluttering the craft room. So lets take a look at the first few.
- Identify the Problem. (Where do we have the clutter)
- Write it down. (What is the clutter?)
Adding a few of my own here.
- Decide what to keep or not to keep (Here we can write down what to donate or give away).
- Group the same items together in one area.
- Add storage solutions.
- Schedule. (Decide when to declutter, the amount of time to devote to declutter, when to donate or give away unwanted items.)
Overwhelm
If you find that you get overwhelmed by the amount of clutter this is a time to take things a bit slower and divide the room into sections.
For example: * Write down: Section A – E, : (Section A has this…. books, tape, paper, etc.)
By writing down each section and the contents of each section you’ll be more prepared to tackle the section. If you feel that you are still getting overwhelmed. Divide the room even smaller sections up to the point your comfortable to do that particular section with ease.
Tackle
To begin to tackle the declutter. Its recommended to start with the worst section first. Don’t forget to take a before photo (for later). Taking a photo also is helpful to look at when your working on other stuff to help make a plan of what to keep or not keep. When decluttering group items together. This is extra storage bins can come in handy when sorting out stuff or grouping things together.
Schedule
Scheduling when to declutter helps to keep time to a minimum and prevents from over working to the point of being overwhelmed. Depending on the size of the declutter it’s recommended to only work on it a little each day. For example: Date: 8/10 /2021 Declutter, Time: 20 min. Next week: Date: ?/?/?, Time: 20 min., etc. Until the project is completed. Don’t get discouraged just keep going.
Extra Reading
Another article suggests avoid distractions, make it fun and reward yourself. You can find more of their suggestions here: http://www.thesimplictyhabit.com
Unrelated Items
For things that are unrelated to the craft room but your not ready to get rid or can’t get rid of. Can they be stored in a separate container or tub? Can they be stored somewhere else? Do you need a written plan or schedule to move them as well? If so proceed just like above, just a different subject.
Time
What’s the length of time that you had the items in your craft room? Is it new or is it year’s? Another words if it’s something new then it’s still relatively on the market to get more of. If its month’s or year’s then the probability to replace the item or get more of it decreases. In some cases completely obsolete. Its the obsolete items that is the issue here. If its obsolete then the question should be, should we keep it or let it go? The old saying comes to mind, “we can’t keep everything’. If we kept everything then our space or spaces would have no room for the new.
For Fun
Can you name 5 ways you can declutter your craft space? Can you name 5 more? What rewards would you give your self for decluttering? Would you challenge someone you know to declutter their craft room?
Reoccurrence
How often would you declutter your craft room? Perhaps every 6 months is a good start. If need be maybe every year. It depends on how you feel and how often your space gets cluttered. Some of us may need to declutter more often than others. Meaning: twice a month or just four times a year. No one can really answer this question better than yourself.
The rest of the house
Can the same tactics be used for the rest of the home? Absolutely! However, it’s recommended to do each room separately and divide. It’s not recommended to try to do it all at once.
Emotions
How does clutter of the craft room effect your mood? Clutter can stifle creativity in some people while clutter can benefit others. Meaning a little clutter can encourage by giving one something visual to spark an idea. You may be a person that feels debilitated all together over clutter. Another words, have zero tolerance for clutter.
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How To Handle Working For Yourself!
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I’m so glad that you have decided to read today’s post. I hope that I can bring some humor, encouragement, and some tips for your daily life. Please do enjoy.
How many of you struggle with finding time for everything while being your own boss working from home? How many of you struggle with getting simple healthy meals together? How many of you struggle with just normal chores while working from home? Do you cook your meals at the same time your working? Do you struggle with just finding time to work at all while dealing with normal life? (Can I raise my hand here?) psst… Did you raise your hand? Ha, good! I’m not alone! (just kidding)
Time
So let’s take a look at how we struggle with finding time for everything while being your own boss working from home. This is for most of us who don’t have a team of people to delegate “work” jobs to. I want to say that for me I did a lot of research to get some kind of perspective of what I was getting myself into before committing to work from home. I can say the struggle is real and I do realize that I’m going to need a team to help with this business if it’s ever going to survive. For now, I’m still in the infancy to crawl stage. I intend to learn everything there is and unfortunately for me, its taking a lot of time. For everything that is learned, its implemented immediately or I will lose the concept. Which this also means that a lot of normal chores I do in my home are somewhat either getting ignored or being put off for another day. So here’s what I learned.
- Except you can not do everything in a day.
- Delegate if you are able.
- List all chores and things that has to be done with-in the home. (Separate list for business)
- Take the list you just made and decided which is the most important ( I picked a few at time and then added to it as time would allow)
- Complete only the tasks, chores or what ever is the most important to you. (note: Time yourself to see how long it takes to do each task or chore. If it takes less than 5 min., don’t write it down on the calendar. Things that take at least 30 min to an hour or so should be placed on the calendar.
- Use a calendar to help delegate which items need to be done at a specific time or day. (note: When starting out, I used this idea a lot. I made my own paper calendar so as to not confuse the spouse on the normal everyday calendar.)
- Color code the holidays so they don’t get lost in the chaos. (note: I used one color for all holidays, another color for birthdays, and another color for days off or days that are just strictly for family.) I would like to mention here that color coding chores is also a great idea as long as they are not the same colors as the ones you used for the holidays, birthdays and so on.
- Look for Items you no longer need. Box them up and deliver then to charity or donate them.
- Put seasonal stuff away.
- Eliminate things that need constant cleaning. Example: dust collectors. Exception to the rule is family heirlooms.
- Down size books, magazines, clothing, etc.,
- Try to limit the amount of items that people brings to you. Example: Craft supplies outside of your normal craft list. Things that don’t mesh with what your doing currently.
I can say that everything on this list is still a working process.
Meals
I would like to say that I’m an expert here but I can’t, despite that I like to cook. I still struggle in this area finding healthy foods to cook that don’t take a ton of time. You may find this amusing and that’s fine by me but my solution is this: I cook foods that I can cook in large batches at a time that will last for at least four days. (2 people here), So a family more than 2 may have to expand even more. So basically, I dedicate one morning to brain storm what we are having for the week according to what I have on hand. I may have to do some research online to see if I have everything to make a particular meal. (These days I have stepped away from normal written cook books). I do write down any recipes that I come across that may be of use.
- Research
- Make a list of what you have
- Make a list of what you don’t have
- Plan ahead meal Plan
- Write down the Meal Plan on a calendar
- Leave room for (spouses who grumble at what’s planned or family)
- Prep a day ahead parts of meal
- Day Of: cook large batches of the meal. Feed. Either freeze or refrigerate or both the left overs.
- Start the next weeks meal Plan.
Now for the most part I have done a lot of these things thru out my working life. There are a few that I have left to the way side after I left the work force outside the home. Now, that I have been working on starting my own business I have found that I need a Meal Plan again.
I would like to point out that making two meal plans might be the ideal thing. One for the frig for the whole family to see and another to put with your chore list and work schedule. This will help insure that you can easily maneuver any items around if need be. (The most important thing is to stay flexible no matter what. There is always going to be some unforeseen thing that come’s up and when it does you will be a bit more prepared for it.)
Today, or I should say lately, my comfort breakfast has become an every other day kind of thing. I’ve been contemplating to having it just on the weekends. You might be wondering what did I replace my breakfast with? I can say that I switched to cold cereal. One day (whole grain), oatmeal another day (fruit added at times), toast and egg, and then my comfort breakfast. (I may have to give up my bacon all together due to bacon shortage.) (p.s. Don’t burn the bottom of your pot steaming your veggies while working like I just did.)
Chores
I have yet perfected getting all my chores done while being a working from home. I can’t imagine anybody else does it all either. If you know someone who can or you are such a person please get a hold of me. I would love to know your secrets. Maybe you would indulge me to tell the rest of the hard working people. (note: I can say that projects that are a one time thing or things that have to be repaired rarely are easy to knock off the list. Its the constant every day chores that are the issue and/ or the things that get pushed off to the side constantly that need to get done that are not getting done.) Hmmm,,, maybe those should be done first? What do you think?
Some Things Don’t Always Mix
As you read above that steaming a pot of cauliflower doesn’t always mix well with working. Sometime one can get lost in their work that they can forget to check on the meal cooking. To help combat this is to turn on the timer for everything that is cooking. (Ya, I should practice what I preach! For the most part I do use a timer. It’s just this time I have to buck this system to only be rained back in to do the old stand by and use the timer.) (To tell you the truth, I didn’t think this would take that long but I was wrong.) (smile)
Exercise
I nearly forgot to add exercise. For me, I keep exercise simple for now. Another words, taking a short walk out side in the morning just enough to get the heart pumping helps build my strength and durance. Maybe running up and down the staircase could get the ticker going. One thing to keep in mind if your sitting for long periods of time is to get up every hour. This is another area of mine where I could easily lose track of time. There are many different types of exercises that can be done to build strength and durance. Its just a matter of finding what works for you and where you think you could fit it in your schedule. I can say I’m no exercise guru or an expert and all exercise should be approved by your physician. This is just my opinion I’ve what I do.
Pesky Everyday Life Interfering With Work
This is incredibly important. Those pesky interference in life just might need to be taken care of and put work on hold. Sometimes those pesky things are things that end up being important in the long run. So don’t ignore them or put them off for too long. Do them quickly as you can so that you are able to get back to work. ‘Patients is a virtue.” I can say I’m still working on my patients, durance and skills. I can say learn to except that there are things that you can’t change so just go with it. As most people would say, “it’s part of life and deal with it.” So here is my solution: I plan for the unexpected. I plan work related stuff around what I anticipate pesky life moments. Example: When a someone needs help with a wood splinter pulled out of their finger. (for real here, true story)
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The Yacking Elephant
Hello Dimensional Readers,
Last month has been a wild and long month. I’m glad to start a new month: August.
Out of all the many things to talk about, my elephant is in the room. This elephant is just one of many. This elephant
has a lot to say and has been pressing me all morning. I intended to be working on how to write better emails but yet
yet this elephant is going off like a thunderous storm. So here is what the elephant is saying. But first let me set the stage.
Yesterday, I was scrolling thru my emails like I do every morning. (The rule is delete at least 10). (That is a story for
another day). I come across an email to read. I click and read it but I scroll up to see a comment made by someone that
I don’t know. It made me kind of sad. The comment was in reference to how they love to draw. All it took was one
comment from someone and they just put the pencil down to never draw again. Later down the road they pick up a
pencil to try to draw only to discover they have zero desire to draw a thing. Sad story indeed. I posted “the I care
emoji’. What could one say? I could not get the right words at the time.
Here’s the elephant in the room. What could one say when one experiences something similar. I can’t say that I have
experienced the exact same thing because I don’t know all the details or the comment that was used. But what I can
say is this. Some people can say the most off the wall things about someone’s art ability whether it was ill intention or
not. With these comments, if not in good company, can be literally debilitating. Some times it takes us years to recover.
I can say this from my own experience’s. All I could say or can say that if you are in a situation like this, do grieve for
the hurt that was caused but (this is a big but) don’t ever set that pencil down to never draw again. this is the worst
possible thing one could do. Don’t ever give up! Being a Artist is a gift.
I know people who wish they could draw. All I hear from them, that all they can draw are stick people. (What they
don’t know is there are other people who want the Art of stick people). My point is this. There is always going to be
that one person who’s going to say something negative. On the other hand, there’s going to be people who say that
they absolutely love what you do. Who would you rather hang out with? The one who said the bad comment or the
one who said those amazing words you needed to hear? I can tell you I’m going to hang with the people who say the
amazing things I need to hear. The ones that truly mean what they say.
I’m truly sorry for the person who stopped drawing all together. Nothing can fix it except for time, and lots of
encouragement from all of us who know what it’s like. Luckily this person has turned to a fellow group of artists that
will wrap them up in art support.
This situation has compelled me to wonder how many other artists (young budding ones) and the old ones that are
kind to an artist whether we like their artwork or not?
out there in the world going thru this very thing. This just needs to just stop. the in justice of it all. Can we please be
The one person who comes to mind in my own world is long gone and I’m very certain that they wished they could
have been more loving and understanding. More supportive and whole lot less judge mental whether spoken or non
spoken.
I support Artist in need of encouragement.
Susan @ Colorful Dimensions 2 Arts
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Craft Offerings at Dollar Store and Dollar General
If your a beginner card maker and you don’t have a big budget. Many items can be found at Dollar General and the Dollar store. You might be asking how do I know this? I’m a frequent shopper of Dollar General and the Dollar Store. I occasionally use their products making cards.
There are many products to choose from at Dollar General for example: Card bases with envelopes (pkg. 20), jewels (big and small, various colors), variety of stickers, glue, water color paints, pens, color pencils, puff paint, water base Acrylic paint and so much more.
At Dollar Tree there is mounting tape, glitter paper, foil paper, stickers, glue, hot glue sticks, paint, watercolor paints, color pencils, pens and if your lucky stamps. There’s more and way too many to list them all.
Not all Dollar Stores and Dollar Generals are created equal. You may need to travel to many shops to get that one thing you want. However, the cost factor out weighs the cost of a the major craft stores. It is also a major save when it comes to ordering products on line.
I have used most of all the products offered by both of these store’s/companies. I still use some of their products to this day.
When you become a bit more confident in your card building skills, you can add to your stash with more popular products. I will admit that card making is not a cheap adventure, if your wanting all the latest tools and popular products. Building your stash takes time. Keep in mind that there will always be some new product or some new stamp. I recommend picking only that makes you happy and something that you think you will use over and over again. I don’t recommend picking the items that are trends. I can tell you I have been building my stash for year’s and I’m still not where I want to be. However, I am closer to my goal and so will you. But that’s another story for another day. This is suppose to be about craft supplies and where to get them as a new card crafter.
I can tell you that there are just a few things you may need that are not available at either of these stores. That is a bone folder, a score board, a paper trimmer and a guillotine. The bone folder isn’t exactly needed but it’s a nice addition to secure mounting tape or reinforce the fold of a card base.
I can also tell you from experience you want to watch for those extraordinary items that just pop up out of the blue at either of these stores mentioned. For example: Washi tape. (I was super excited to find it and I walked around like a kid in the candy store.)
Technically this was suppose to be about my favorite Dollar store crafts. I can tell you that story was too short for this platform and to tell you the truth I wanted to get away from making this all about me. I wanted this to be about you too.
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If you really want to know the answer to the question……my most favorite craft item in the whole store(s). It’s…… It’s…. ITS STICKERS! I love stickers and I will happily admit I’m a sticker hoarder. I love my stickers so much that some don’t even stick anymore. Sad isn’t it. I grieve over the loss of just one sticker. So if you can imagine.
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Finding motivation to paint
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Unexpected Rough Times
Hello and Welcome to this weeks post(s). If you have been wondering where I have been these last few days an unexpected rough patch came for me here at Colorful Dimensions 1014. I can not discuss the matter too much. I’m okay, four legged friends are okay, spouse is okay, and business is okay. I do want to mention that when these rough times do come along, it’s really hard to pick one self up and run a business. It’s hard to be on top of everything when your world just crashes. I gave my self permission to grieve for a few days but decided it wasn’t going to bring me down so far that I lose interest in my followers and my business.
I took part of my time to paint another canvas (Dollar General). It’s just a simple canvas and my craft room needed one more add to make it more me. I really liked the saying when I first bought the canvas. However this week the phrase made the meaning, different. I’m not so sure I want it on my wall. I wasn’t even certain I wanted to paint it. It took some convincing for myself to even paint it.
I decided that I will go ahead and paint it. Follow thru with the original plan and see where it leads. It took me roughly two days to paint it. It’s all done now. All water base acrylic used this time and one micro (black) pen. I also went a little wild by adding some stickles glitter. I’m tempted to add some (gold) deco foil. What do you think? See below before and after pictures without the gold deco foil. In some ways it turned out nice and in another makes me ask myself what I was thinking with the background.
What are your thoughts. See below the finish version and hanging as we speak.
On to another subject: This became a good time to clean this part of the craft room. It needed it bad. All paper and fabric flowers into one drawer. Buttons into one glass bin. Super long tablets found a drawer that is long enough to handle it. All unnecessary items found a temporary home outside of the craft room. Some items are going to go live with someone else and some will be donated. My point is this, don’t let a bad week take you down so far that you no longer want to function but rather turn the bad into a positive. Clean something, organize something, paint, draw, or do what ever it takes to get your mind off the problem. Grieve yes! Wallow in in it no.
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HAVING A PRODUCTIVE DAY
4/22/2021 Today has been a very productive day. Linking emails accounts together to linking websites together. I can’t even begin to tell you all that I had to do as its all a blur. A lot of what I had to do I don’t understand it.
5/9/2021 Update I wanted to update this post as it had no title. Plus I also noticed that my last sentence makes absolutely no sense. Basically, in a nut shell, I wanted to say that I had been linking Word Press to Wix then to face book then to you tube, etc. I’m sure some of you get the gist. For us newbies this is not a easy task and rather complicated. So its a big deal when it gets accomplished. I can say that today, a lot has changed since last month and I do say I need to give myself a pat on the back. I think we can all agree that we all need to give ourselves a pat on the back when we accomplish something that we thought would be impossible to do. You can see that I have improved a lot but I know I still have room to improve and I still have a lot more to learn. I’m not going to say that where my road is taking me is impossible. I will say I have a lot of ruts in the road and staying on a straight path is proving to be hard. I have recently learned just what a Editorial Calendar is. First time I ever heard of one or I had forgotten from my junior high days in Journalism what is (School newspaper). So this is where I am at in my Journey. If your wondering what it is? It’s basically where you put your ideas that you wish to talk about but its put in calendar format so that you have a deadline to get the project at hand done. Different from a every day calendar. If you are wanting to know more just type in Editorial Calendar in your search bar.
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Don’t feel Defeated by Machines
I want to say that I really didn’t want to miss you all but the last few days have been a bit of a whirl wind. I have been anxiously awaiting for a new printer. It finally arrived while I had to go to town for a appointment. While this is not about my appointment or about the date I had with my spouse. I want to just say it was a nice day and it felt good to be out of the house after several months of being cooped in. It felt good to have the sun warm my soul. Needless to say, we were in town all day. (to ourselves with masks on when needed.) By the time we got home we were to wore out. The only thing that I had enough energy for was to open the packages that came in the mail. A nice pretty purple, simple printer. Lightweight and moveable. Unlike the big one we have that is heavy, a pain to run, died a few years ago and its currently not liking me at all. When I reflected back on yesterday, it has occurred to me that I really missed watching people, the smell of the mills, the sounds of the cars, the flowers, the business of the people going into stores, the trees (flowering type) and just so much more.
Today, I thought I would be brave and plug that cute, new, printer in. Um, No instructions, No software, and this could not be a good sign. Well, I got this.. right… Plug cords in and turn on.. Oh got to put the ink in. Shut off and put the ink in. Turn back on. Run up the stairs to grab the paper. Lets see if this little baby is going to work. So much excitement just got deflated when I see these flashing lights….. no paper going thru. Whyyyyy?? Whyyyy me??? This voice says stop and check everything. Cords are plugged in, the ink cartridges are in, button is on. I know change the paper. Maybe it don’t like the paper. Run back upstairs and find different paper. Tried that and nope that didn’t work either. Hmm well, there is another cord and lets hook up the computer and lets try some trouble shooting. Well I found out that HP is doing away with paper instructions. Nice to know! Ha! Yes, found software. Downloaded and went thru all the appropriate steps. Well, that still didn’t solve the problem. HP had me download an update on the software that I just downloaded. Can you believe that? But low and behold it told me that something was jammed in the printer. Really!!! Yep, that smart little cookie printer was right. I pulled out this piece that made me want to panic as I thought oh boy, this thing must have got broken on its trip here. Luckily, I did send an item from my computer to the printer. I wish you all could see how I excited I am over this sweet little printer. I’ve been printing everything that is important that’s been on my computer for sometime. Mostly one pagers, or two. But I have some biggies that are going to take a lot of ink. I’m a bit stingy with my ink for the moment until I can order more ink. Anyway, I just want to say here this has been a long but eventful day. (my computer has been complaining that it has a full memory) I’ve been dumping files where ever I can. You tube videos take a lot of memory. I do hope that I can get back to my favorite pass time soon. The next couple of weeks is going to be extremely busy. There is still a lot to learn, do, and not do. My point for this post is this. If, you get a new machine. Don’t let it defeat you. Don’t be afraid of it. There is always a solution somewhere. When you beat it, give your self a pat on the back. You deserve and earned it.
Cute little purple printer. Blue tape was replaced after use so our four legged friends wouldn’t break the plastic parts.
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Revision
This article was first published April 30, 2021 and September 19, 2021 the article was revised to add color to the text and to provide structure to a sentence.
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Rainy Day Crafts
I’m happily crafting in my craft room on a rainy windy day. This is a work in progress. It’s nearly quit’n time and I’ll have to finish this tomorrow.
Update: 5/20/2021
This beautiful Card did get completed. The geese are 3-D. Geese are stamped with a wooden stamp block (company unknown). The lace trim was from a lacy frame that was cut with a die. The lace trim was painted with Wink of Stella. The Egg was cut out with a Egg shaped die. Back ground is water based acrylic. Flowers are 3-D. Made with water color paper in Tim Holtz ink, using his technique. Flowers are cut out with flower dies. Card base is made with 90lb. white Card stock purchased from Walmart. The centers of the flowers were completed and gems were set.
I can see that it would have been better for me to use a photo of the project that was actually completed. (the only reason was to show that the project was completed for the most part and secondly, that I figured out how to add a photo to the post.)
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