More Color

More Color

I started out experimenting with pencil crayons, then I discovered inks (many different types).  My next discovery was Copics, (oh no….) I love these.  Since then I have tried watercolor pencils, watercolor crayons, chalks, watercolor paints….  You get the idea!!!!  (If it has pigment, I will try to color with it!)

Anyway, my brother-in-law was having a birthday and I needed to make a card to celebrate this event.  I pondered about what I should do for him.  I could do a traditional male card with a car or some wildlife or a fish or something equally masculine or I could….

Here’s the story - my brother-in-law is a do it yourself kind of guy!  He likes to get in there and fix things and do jobs around house.  He’s quite good at it too!  He also loves to help others with their home jobs.  Well one of his friends invited him to his summer home on an island to help him fix it up.  Sounds like fun eh!! 

Off they went to a place with no running water, no electricity and no phone service and a ferry service that ran once a day!!  He had his cell phone so they were feeling pretty good as they headed out for a week in the wilderness. 

Next thing I know my sister-in-law is in a panic.  She has gotten a call from the mainland.  Here’s the story… 

True to form, within two days my brother-in-law lost his cell phone somewhere on the island!!! He had sliced his thumb almost off and it had been too late in the day so they had missed the ferry sailing for that day.  She had got the call after he had docked the next day and was driving home so she could take him to emergency!!  A 3 and a half hour drive!!  What possesses men to think like that?  What about the hospital in the town where they docked or the any number of hospitals in the large city they pasted through on their way home???  Anyway, home he comes and off to emergency and then surgery to re-attach the thumb they go…

So my girlfriend Chelsea from The Paper Trail, that’s a great on-line craft supply store that has be best stuff met me downtown with the perfect stamp to commemorate his birthday this year!!  Thanks so much Chelsea.

I did a background with hills and some old buildings and water in the background using my “Stampscapes” stamps and Tim Holtz distress inks.  Then I used my Copics to color the “Weekend Warrior” stamp from the Art Impressions collection from Chelsea’s store the Paper Trail.  I had to remove one of his gloves and replace it with a big bandaged hand.  I finished off the front with some embellishing and a SU Happy Birthday sentiment stamp.  For the inside I kept it simple.  I used the Weekend Warrior sentiment stamp and then created some red blood drops beside the stamp for affect.

Everyone had a good laugh!!  I know that even though his hand was really hurting a lot he really appreciated the effort I had put into his special day!! 

Gotta run now things to do so I can get back!