Okay, obviously I work on multiple projects at once, my tools are everywhere, and I have great light on my larger work table. Honestly, this is IT...the way I "create". I will start something in the kitchen for dinner and walk in to my office to look at whatever is laying on my table. I will read about a technique or see a pin on Pinterest and run in to lay paper out or accumulate the supplies so that I can try something new. It's an interesting 24/7 process, sometimes I even dream about an idea. See the paper flowers on the table? Those are my first attempts at paper flowers. They turned out ok, but I have crafted myself into a corner by using some really great patterned paper to make them (K & Co. Sera, Sera DP) and now have to come up with either a pattern that doesn't overwhelm them or use plain card. Well, actually, I think I will use Coordinations, an embossing folder, and some sandpaper for the background. We' ll see how that looks a little later in the week. I suspect that if I had made them with plain card and used some TH Distress ink on the edges, I then would have used the patterned paper as a background. HMMM...I just need to remember that in the overall scheme of things, paper is pretty inexpensive.
Notice the Cricut Gypsy ... I have one of the paper punches that will punch a strip of connected petals and I have the Cricut Flower Shoppe cartridge. The paper punch jammed every fifth or sixth repetition and frustrated me beyond belief. I wanted to love it because, despite what the photos look like, I am a minimalist. I like to use items that do not require power, noise and are simple. In this case, though, the Cricut-cut floral elements are crazy good; pure pleasure to cut and assemble. One of my daughters will be gifted with the punch. Maybe young muscles will be more effective at making it work without jamming.
And finally, in the center of this photo is a transparency, stamped on the rough and smooth side with staz-on, and copic colored on either side that is opposite the stamp. I want to make a stained glass card element. What did I learn from this? Staz-on is pretty wonderful, stamps on almost anything, dries quickly, copic will take Staz-on right off, dry or not, if you color on the same side and when coloring with copics on transparencies, I found that blending will be ineffective (thanks many wonderful bloggers who mentioned this when I googled it AFTER I tried to do it; I might want to look at moving the research step WAY up on the project list) and (this is mine) using a color that is not in the same close color family and dotting it in some areas will confuse the eyes. Now, your brain will not expect smooth even color (like cellophane) and you have disguised the darker areas that result anytime you overlap the base color even a little (it looks a lot like a distracting ripple or wrinkle). I will post a close-up of this technique later in the week, when I can show the bad and, hopefully, the better, or even the good. Oh, Yeah, one more thing I learned was that I will not be posting any more photos taken with that much sunshine.
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