Clean & Simple Card Making 2, Days 7 and 9 ~ Washi Paper and Oopsie Poopsie

Hey!  How's it goin'?

It's a cold mess in parts of the Midwest and the East Coast this weekend.  I hope everyone has power, is safe and sound, and well-stocked with provisions.  Eeeks.

I've got a quick post today.  I'm still doing a bit of funwork from my class and I have lots more to do.  Today I made my own background paper using nothing but washi tape, which I'm not sure if I'm supposed to capitalize on or not.  If someone named washi invented it, then I think I should be using a big double u.  Does anyone know?  I've seen it both ways.  Our card inspiration was provided by the fabulous Lisa Spangler.

So here's what I made:

Him's so cute.  The tape is from Lawn Fawn.  I used the fun sticker from Stickopotamus on a white and red mat.  I used Lil' Inker Designs flag additions die and stamp (curving it a little) for the sediment.  On the inside of the front I attached a same-size sheet of white card stock to cover the turned tape ends and that's it!

This card is going straight to the twins because they both adore washi tape and I do miss them.  They are into basketball now late on Saturday afternoons which is severely restricting our weekend sleepovers.  Frownie face.

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Then I tried to make a card using instructions from the brilliant Julie Ebersole.  She made an awesome card using a big cityscape stamp, stamping the image in two overlapping colors and then heat embossing the third overlapping.  Sort of like this:

Cool idea.  So then I was on the telephone and instead of doing proper doodling like everyone else, I started filling in the craters in my black embossed flowers with a black Copics outliner brush pen.  Oh, very nice.  Talkie, talkie.  Oh, shoot, is that a speck?  Talkie, talkie.  Let me brush that ....  EI YI YI, NO No no no no!  By the time I swished away the speck, I had forgotten I had put black ink on the flowers, and my swish caused a smoosh and I started shizzazzing all over the place.  Dang, double-dang nabbit.

I did what anyone would do when that happens, if it's a big smoosh, which this was.  I smooshed the whole area in that not challant way one does like one meant for that to happen all along.  I won't lie, IRL it looks like carp.  But I decide to publish it anyway just cause, hey, bloopers happen!  It's all good.

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Okay, before you break into groups and start tearing into the washi (or doing the washing IRL!), please welcome today's new friend, Beanie of Beanie's Place.  Beanie is brand, brand spanking new to Bloggerville and guess what?  She crafts in her own little shed, too!!  Thank you, Beanie, for joining our journey!

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And thank you for playing in yesterday's word game!  I will wait a few days to see if more peeps jump in the puddle before I compile a lation.

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy your day. LITS!

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Second card:

Paper: SU! white, black, and

  certainly celery

Stamps:  SU! and Hero Arts

Ink:  Memento black; SU!

  bordering blue, and

  certainly celery

EP:  Silhoette back

Butterflies:  K&Company

Smudge:  djkardkreations