This weekend I enjoyed several crafty video calls ... and I was so grateful for that time to create apart ... but with others. I normally create alone ... and after a week steeped in house of noisy people contact at the office, I always enjoyed and needed that alone time to re-charge my introvert battery. Now I sit alone all week (mostly talking on even more video calls), and I have really been craving crafty contact.
I had fun just playing with creating alcohol ink backgrounds this afternoon. It had been a while since I'd played with them, so just made lots of inky messes. These cards were made from a favorite result that combined Raspberry, Red and a bit of Coral.
I die cut it with another of my new Gina Marie Designs Dies - Quilt Die #12 Blocks & Lines. I die cut it once from black cardstock for the frame and a second time from my Alcohol Inked panel.
On one of my calls, there was a discussion of a love stamps that contain profanity (mostly because it is so unexpected) ... and the fact that both of us collected them. Until now, I've never quite known who to send cards to made using those stamps ... but now I do. These are from a set called Oh Hell No from Paper Issues (you'll just have to guess my profanity word of choice from the set I used today).
The alcohol inked frame was too pretty not to use, but I struggled to figure out exactly how to use it. Lauren suggested something texty, so as I played with different book pages, I settled on this schematic drawing from the 1928 manual of Automobile Ignition Starting and Lighting from the American Technical Society. It seemed perfect for my brother who recently painted a large piece of equipment in his work studio as he put it *full-on Bret 'the Hitman' Hart* pink.
I played around with the placement of the frame until I got a look I wanted and then cut the word Electrical Equipment from the title of the page.
The sentiment is stamped on the margin of the book page using a stamp from AlteNew called Engineers Rule ... while I would define my brother as more of a Bricoleur than an Engineer, the sentiment still applies.
I'm also joining the AlteNew April Inspiration Challenge.
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