Thursday, July 19, 2007

On This Special Day

Isn't this turtle cute? He is really enjoying the summer dog days. I wish I were with him laying in the grass soaking up the sun (cue Sheryl Crow now). This stamp and phrase are from Great Impressions. I usually end up buying some of the complimentary stamps each month but rarely do I like the actual SOTM.

This card is from an idea I got from Laurie at Jane's Craft Studio a while back. Make sure if you are in mid Michigan that you stop by to visit with the wonderful people at this store. If I lived closer, I would be in store at least once a week. Just the samples on the walls are worth the trip. And up the road a bit off I96 is Stacey's , so make a day of it and have fun. I can tell you where there is a nice Irish Pub for lunch in between the two stores--------yum-o!

This card had 5 layers added to the base card. I played with the various sizes of cardstock to see what might be a bit different instead of just one on top of the other as Laurie had done. I finally came up with this layered card. I edged most of the pieces with a hot pink chalk ink. Yes, even the blue layer is edged in pink! Laurie had done bows on her card and I just have such a hard time with bows. I even bought that little tool to help and still can't seem to do it right. So I made photo corners with my ribbon. I colored with Prismacolors and Gamsol and now wished I had done a bit more shading on Turtle. A little brown and darker green would have given him more depth. I had to top him off with Stickles on his party hat and a bit on the flowers just because I love glitter.

A pretty quick summery card-favorable for both male and female occasions. My grass is soaked tonight after terrifying wind and rain so I wont be out laying on it for a while. I can hear the frogs from my herb garden tonight calling to each other and the fireflies are prolific too. Summertime.........wish it was always summertime.




7 comments:

  1. This is the cutest turtle. Love the card.

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  2. The turtle and card are adorable!! Thanks so much for checking in and posting on our giveaway! :)

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  3. What an adorable card, love the glitter

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  4. I love your card Jan! I really like the layout and the brigh colors -- a perfect summer card! And the turtle is adorable. We must have had the same series of storms as you because yesterday we had a downpour here!

    And I loved your comment about monomanias on my blog -- especially your mention of spices. I have that monomania too -- I have a huge spice cabinet that it filled to the brim! :-)

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  5. Hi JaN, thank you for visiting my blog, very kind of you. I love your turtle, how sweet!!! Your art is lovely, and I think it stands out nicely against the black of your background, very nice indeed!!!! Thank you again, kindest regards, Carol

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  6. Hi Jan, thank you for signing my blog. I wrote this comment once but for some reason it didn't seem to go through so I will say again that I think your art looks lovely against the black background, it is colourful and deserves to have no distractions when looking at it!!! All the best to you!! best regards, Carol

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  7. Love this bright summery card! That turtle is so darn cute!!!!

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