Day 22 - A pretty fall card

For a change, I had an image in mind for this card before I began to assemble it. However, my image called for a print background behind Miss Scarecrow & the embellishments. I have plenty of print papers, but none were just right. The colors didn't really work.

Not wanting to tear out to the craft store just now, I wondered, "why not make my own print, and why not use something reallly different to do it?" But what?

Just a few days ago I happened to notice some thread on an old-time wooden spool in my sewing basket. It must have come from my mother. I wondered if I could make a design using a wooden spool for a stamp?

Well, guess what, kids! It worked! This card shows my first effort but now I've thought of some other ways to stamp with a spool and am anxious to try them out.

But here's the funny part. I had cut out several pieces of cardstock for experimenting and when the time came to add the print cardstock to the card itself I was concentrating on the way the different pieces looked with regard to the pattern and in the process I inadvertently selected a crooked piece! Without even noticing my mistake, I adhered it to the card. Only after scanning it into the computer did I happen to see that error - look over on the left lower side where the background piece is chopped crookedly! Aaaargh! Just be glad I wasn't God. That wouldn't be a good time to be turning out weird creations.

Anyway, I'm going to remake or reassemble this card and fix the problem, so if you win it you won't see this strange looking background piece.

Do you ever mess up when you're making something? I do, plenty of times! It's easy to overlook details when you're concentrating on something else! But it's probably just part of the fun of cardmaking. . .

Day 17 of Great Card Giveaway

Can you believe it's already mid-October? If anyone is just now finding us, you're invited to hop aboard and be a part of our Great Card Giveaway where you can enter a random drawing for one of the free cards shown daily. For easy instructions on how to participate, just scroll down through the posts to October 1!

Today I made a fun and colorful Halloween card. Gosh, there go those buttons again!

Few of these cards would fit through the automated letter sorter at the post office, so if you win one and mail it off to somebody, be aware that the USPS requires an extra stamp for hand sorting. The cards are heavy, though, and would require extra postage anyway.

Wishing you all a really great fall weekend! It's more TV football at our house today, with some frantically fast household chores stuffed in during the commercials! My husband follows Ohio State and I'm a Bama fan - Roll Tide! I wonder who your fave team is?

If anything can go wrong it will

Hi Everybody,

The technogremlins are hard at work in our house today. Two phone conversations were disconnected, a bathroom light failed to work when turned on, and the camera flash isn't in sync with the shoot button. Then when I tried to harvest the pictures taken today, in spite of being set on "New Images", the computer slurped out dupes of 321 other pix in the cam. What next, I ask you?

However. . .I said I would share a few pix related to the project described in my post below from several days past, and so I will. They are poor quality photos but will give you some idea of what I've been doing this past week. I have been doing it pretty frantically since I volunteered for way too many categories and ended up needing to create 80 little pieces of "candy" to swap. All scrapbookers, cardmakers, and other papercrafters out there will recognise the phenom known as "candy" - fun little handcrafted motifs that can be used as-is in coordinating theme projects.

So take a look. It might be fun to see! All the beach and all the Halloween motif stamps are from october pumpkin (see sidebar for co. online location, plus check out Addicted to Rubber Stamping.

Ooops, the technogremlins are not done with me this day! The add image thingie isn't working now. I'll post this and work on a separate photo transmission. Stay tuned.