March 31, 2007

More Paisley and a Tease!

I'm still using up the sheet of paisleys I made with the Technique Tuesday Build a Paisley stamp set. I realized AFTER I took the picture that the word "thoughts" is a touch crooked. Good grief. Here's hoping whoever gets this card isn't too picky! How I made this card: This card is BIG! Base card is 9" x 4 and 1/4" Brocade Blue cardstock by Stampin Up. Other cardstock: Becketts Expression #80 Iceberg Cover Cardstock (this paper is virtually identical to SU's Ultrasmooth Whisper White and I purchased it from Marcos Paper), SU Brocade Blue and So Saffron. Inks: All SU -- So Saffron, Brocade Blue and tiny bit of Certainly Celery. Colored in "Happy" with a SU So Saffron marker and outlined it with an SU Brilliant Blue marker. Other stamps: Wordsworth Clearly Happy Everything, SU Aida Cloth Background and Papertreyink's Paper Tray. By the way, I was able to punch the holes and set the SU Certainly Celery eyelets right through the SU Bluebird grosgrain ribbon! Did that with the Crop-a-Dile. And now the tease: April is Autism Awareness Month. While it is nice to promote awareness, let's face it, what we really want is prevention and a cure. And that takes awareness, money, political voice, etc. Stay tuned. I will be doing a tiny part here on the blog to lure you into spending some money on stamping and autism! And, I'll be providing some information on autism throughout the month of April.

9 comments:

  1. Although I don't have an autistic son, I do have a son with apraxia and ADHD, so I will definitely be up for whatever you have in mind. My best friend's son has Aspergers, so I do know what it is like to live with a child with autism and my son goes to a special needs school with lots of children on the autistic spectrum, so I realise how important raiseing awareness is, thank you Joan.

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  2. Oops, I can spell raising, I don't know how that stray "e" got in there! :)

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  3. Beautiful card! I took the tease, now I want to know what is ahead, TFS & TFT.

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  4. Beautiful card...love these colors together!

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  5. I love this card! The color scheme is so bright and- ah yes my room was yellow and blue when I was a kid!

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  6. I teach preschool and have had several children with autism in my class over the years. It is something that definitly needs as much help and support as we can give!

    I love your long card! It's a nice clean looking layout! I haven't made any long cards in ages. Gonna have to go see what I can do about that!

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  7. Thank you! I'm trying to do all I can to raise awareness. My son is autistic and I'm spending the month blogging about autism and raising donations for Autism Speaks.

    I'm REALLY excited to buy those stamps from Technique Tuesday and Gina K's, too.

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  8. I love this, and your Aida cloth looks like the real deal.

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  9. Your card looks great...and its more personal that it's not PERFECT!

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