Quartet Coaching Part II - The Coach

A mentioned in a previous post, my quartet was privileged to be coached by one of the best known names in Sweet Adelines, Kim Vaughn! She was informative; She was funny; She was helpful; She was interesting; She was fabulous!

I wanted to make her a thank you card. Took me nearly a week to come up with anything more than the image I wanted to use. Sketch Saturday (#271) helped in this regard. 

Internet has been off and on for a couple weeks, so here I am at the last minute finishing this post. Sadly, I missed the deadline for The Pink Elephant (#211), using texture. I think, perhaps, I need a new router. Darn thing keeps forgetting how to communicate with the modem. I am getting very tired of fixing it every day, some days more than once.

Anywho, back to my card. I stamped the background first with "Weathered" from SU. Next, I stamped the cover-a-card music notes. I crumpled it and crushed it, unfolded it, then crumpled and crushed it again. I used my distressing tool on the edges (all the while wishing I had done this step before the crumpling, etc) then inked the edges and the ridges. My goal was a look of old parchment. I think it came out pretty well. 

Card Details:

Image: Copper Leaf Creations, Cover-a-Card, SU

Sentiment: Computer generated

Cardstock: SU

Ink: SU, Memento
Coloring: Copics, Prismacolor markers

Tools: Nestabilities, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool

Embellies: unknown sequins, unknown rhinestone, Stickles

And here we are with Kim

Gladys' Escape

Meet Gladys. Her friends have been nagging her to do something with her style for goodness knows how long, but Gladys is happy with the way she looks, thank you very much. Then Rapunzle had to go and open "Classy Castle Cuts" right around the corner. Next thing Gladys knew, her friends were planning a spa day. Of course she knows this is all a guise to get her in for a makeover. Well, good luck catching her. Before the sun was even completely risen, Gladys hot-footed it (or should I say hot-hoofed?) up the highest peak of Mt Monagnus. With her googly eyes, she can see in all directions and keep anyone from coming close; those horns are not all for show, you know. Gladys is safe. There will be no dye jobs or perms in her future!

Confused? Don't worry, I have not completely cracked, just joined in with the Teapotters over on SCS for their Teapot Tuesday Challenge. I have been stalking them for a couple of weeks now. Those ladies are so talented, and so darn creative, and funny!  Each week Mothermark posts a new story based on a teapot from her collection. The challenge is to make a card inspired by the teapot/story. The teapotters are really hilarious and the stories they add are a riot! The cards range from downright silly to oh so pretty. Most important of all, they issue an open invitation to anyone to join in the tea party, so I am excited to get to know this group of ladies.

As for the card itself, The mountain is made from a single stamp stamped many times on homemade polished stone, made by yours truly. Then each individual mountain was cut out and layered on the others. Gives some neat dimension that will not come through in a scan or photo (pity, really, cuz I am quite proud of the effect). Gladys was masked and clouds were sponged all around. (In fact, I don't know if you can see this either, but below the panels with the picture, there is another full white panel also sponged with clouds.) Googly eyes completes her look.

Both stamps are Copper Leaf Creations, polished stone was made on SU glossy white with SU reinkers and alcohol. Actually, all cardstock is SU. Googly eyes came from ACMoore, don't know the brand, sorry.

Thanks for the invitation to tea, I hope I can join you again next week. Of course, since the Teapot weeks starts on Tuesday, I have to say, "see you tomorrow, Teapotters!"