A very cold day here once again and tonight and tomorrow there could
be freezing rain. If you are from the south you probably have never had this
but it happens when it rains and the temperature is right around 0C (32F). If
it dips below the freezing mark it freezes as it hits the ground, trees, or
anything else. It’s deadly when it hits the pavement because it just looks wet
but is very slippery. Hope the temperature stays above freezing and it just
rains.
Today was a very productive day. I got a lot done on the quilt
that I’m quilting but it is far from finished. This is a very large quilt…72x80
I think….way too big to easily be quilted on my domestic sewing machine but I
cannot afford to have them quilted by someone with a long-arm – it would be
almost $300.00 likely. My shoulders are a bit stiff and sore from pulling the
quilt through the throat of the machine over and over and over. I definitely
got an upper body workout today!
Last week I mentioned stopping in at the Paper Angel scrapbook
store in Blenheim…..just to look around, not to buy…..but bought a few things
anyway……and one of them was an nautical embossing folder. I couldn’t wait to try
it out so I used my window die and made another thinking of you card.
I embossed a piece of chocolate brown cardstock and glued it to
the card base. The window frame was die cut and then I sponged brown ink around
the edges. The windows have a sheet of plastic (from a package) behind them
which doesn’t show in the photo but in real life it really makes a difference.
The background photo is from a note card and I have no idea where I got this
box of note cards from but seeing as I don’t send out store bought note cards I
thought I may as well use them in my own cards. Bakers twine was wrapped around
the window frame and then I tied a tag (Cuttlebug die) to it. The sentiment is
a peel-off and it started out gold but it was too bright and shiny for the card
so while it was still on the package I ran a dark brown alcohol pen over it to
dull it. That really works well. Then I hot glued the window frame to the embossed
cardstock. I used hot glue this time because I didn’t think the window frame
would stick well on the embossed areas with just regular glue. The inside
simply says, “Wishing you better days ahead” so it could be for someone ill or
going through some other personal crisis.
That’s all for a cold Tuesday’
Cheers
Violet
You know i LOVE your window cards! And putting that clear plastic in the window is sheer genius! Stay warm Violet! Hugs! deb
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