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.