Here's all four completed cards. I used different colors for the layer and base of the card. 

Here's a shot of the completed card. I had a hard time getting a good shot of this card. 

Here's the completed card. The glare shows a bit of the gold metallic pigment ink from the Plastic Wrap Tech. 

Here's another background technique called Plastic Wrap. This will be the backgrounds and base for the finished card. 

Voomed In Image of stamped backgrounds 

Stamped Image on Shaving Cream Background (Image from Stampers Anonymous) 

Shaving Cream Backgrounds 

Shaving Cream Technique Pictures!

FINALLY!! I worked out the kinks with my bail out, cheap-o digital. The pictures are not as good as I want them to be, but they will work for now.

I made 4 cards today using my backgrounds made from the Shaving Cream Technique. Here's how I put them together with a little "background" on the backgrounds used:

The first picture shows the backgrounds before being made into cards. Playing with shaving cream can be messy, but having some foil to work over made clean-up easy. This was a technique that the rubber stamping group I'm in was working on 2 weeks ago (you can say I'm a bit behind). Anyway, to get the marbling, you take shaving cream and spray it on a flat surface (I used a paper plate) and add a few drops of ink from re-inkers. Take a stick or a toothpick and spread it around. Then take a pre-cut piece of cardstock and lay it on top. Pull up and scrape off the excess, and viola: you have a marbled background! Cool huh? The second picture shows the image (copyright Stampers Anonymous) stamped on the background.

For the layer and base of the card, I used another technique called Plastic Wrap, where you scribble markers on platic wrap, rub it together, and press your cardstock on the wrap. The marker I used was a gold metallic pigment ink marker.

The fourth and fifth pictures are different angles on my first completed card. The glared image shows the metallic background and the dimmed image is the completed card displaying the marbling from the shaving cream background(I love my cheap-o digital - NOT!).

The final picture shows the cards I completed so far. I tried doing several different color schemes to get different effects. I had a lot of fun getting my fingers inky today. I still have a few more cards to do and I hope it doesn't take me a couple of weeks to finish them!

One of these days I'll get to do everything I want to do....

I've been contemplating these past few weeks about the hobbies that I have or have dabbled in. Right now it's a combination of knit, crochet, rubberstamping, and scrapbooking. This past week, I was at Wal-Mart and spotted a Bead and Button magazine that had a beautiful beaded crochet necklace on the cover. Hmmm...beading using crochet and it's jewelry. Being the sucker for seductive glossies, I made my purchase.

After looking through the magazine for a week, I now have an itch to learn to bead. There are so many beautiful things being done with beads! Not to mention the fact I can crochet and bead at the same time. But where am I going to find the time!!!!! UGH!!! I know I'm not the only one who has a mulititude of hobbies. Have you ever felt the need to do something just to be creative? I must have my hands busy doing something that's truly my vision and of my making. Maybe I should say my hobby is being a Hobbyist! LOL! Finding the time: now that's the challenge!

Since my last blog, I worked on crocheted socks, shaving cream backgrounds, and continued to work on mastering the purl stitch in the Continental method of knitting. I have one of the crocheted socks done and am almost done with the other. I would have finished the other sock if I didn't run out of yarn! Well, I'm not worried about the dye-lot issue because these are "around-the-house" socks, and having a slight color variation is not going to rain on my parade.

I played with shaving cream backgrounds as a technique project with my rubberstamping group. I will post a picture as soon as I get this cheap-o digital figured out. That's my project this weekend! LOL! I've been putting it off. Maybe I will also have one of the cards completed too.

Hello World!

This is my first blog and I'm speechless. Go figure! Maybe I should have called this "brain fart." Anyway, I will mostly blog about knitting, crochet, rubber stamping, books, and whatever else that is on my mind. You will not find much about politics and religion since I'm surrounded by this everyday and I need a break! This is mostly to help me stay motivated in my crafts and reading outside of my normal everyday life activities.

I don't know how much I will post, but will try to do it at least three times a week. Right now, I have a cheapie digital camera, so you won't see many pictures. I'm petitioning my "Santa" for one at Christmas. We'll see.....