OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR!!!!!
Craft Roulette, Episode #248, my 63rd entry.... and my first and second idea(s) just weren't working for me... I usually work around my initial idea(s) until they make sense and work... but this time, seems like I threw a few things in the garbage, and saved a colored image for a later project. Not sure I will use it, you never know. I knew, however, I wanted to use Pooh...and I knew, once I found it in my stash that is stored on our pool table, that I needed/wanted to use my honeycomb paper...
Let me first start by saying... I LOVE playing with my Winnie the Pooh stamps. So much, that even though I have several in my stamps stash... I'm kind of thinking I may want to add a few more.
I don't have my rejects to show you, but basically, I was trying to create this card by having the honeypot on the front (after my first fail).... HUGE visual difference there. Not even sure what I was thinking there... I knew I needed a bigger image ... so, this is a multi-stamp set card.
My original art included an adorable lil Pooh climbing a tree, (that set includes the special bumble bees and the honey hive/branch)... I colored and cut it up way too impulsively, and it just wasn't fitting the color images that were strongly going around in my head... so I thought...the POT and HIVE will do instead, I hadn't planned to use those in the beginning...but after nixing Pooh in tree...I still needed a branch for parameter #4, so I colored up the hive and pot....
I did have the pot in the spot of where current Pooh is after I decided not to use the tree Pooh.... It then looked naked and empty and tiny. SO...I slept on it... and my next stab at it...was to first safely put my previously colored Pooh in Tree in a place for future use (I put it with the actual cleaned up set)...(It's such a cute image, I know I'll use it one day)... then gently remove the pot that I impulsively adhered to the card....and in that spot...put a big Pooh in it's place. That's where stamp set #2 was used.
Then there were my leaves... I dug through so many dies I possess, to find something that might look like tree leaves... What color green cardstock will work? geesh...none, after multiple tries. BUT... Something I have never done, but saw one night from a guest on Craft Roulette, was to die cut in white, and color with alcohol markers... ahhhh...the creative wheels started turning, and the rest is shown here on this post!!! lol IF, and probably when, I recreate this card...it is so dang simple, once I figured it out!
It's like sewing...some times, you simply need to sleep on it...
Parameters:
1. Project: Tag (my Pooh is on a tag)
2. Colors: Disney (Pooh is Disney! So Pooh colors = Disney colors)
3. Element: January (January 18th is National Winnie the Pooh Day)
4. Random: Branch (Honey hive is on a branch)
Supplies: One of my favorite and "go to" stamp companies, Unity Stamp Company and shout out to Cardstock Warehouse where I am loving the good deals Almost Perfect Cardstock Paper and what I used for my base (Stardream Bronze)
Stamps:
Card Stock:
So, busy is starting again for me, but I hope to sneak in a craft roulette tonight...I never know what company / stamp set I will choose from...it's all up to Mr. Wheel, and which parameter will be spun!
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