“Wordle” wont work

Excellent….. Less is More has “Script” for their challenge this week and I had just decided to revisit “Wordle” to create a quick card for one of my cousins. I thought a text based card would be ok for a bloke card. The colour was inspired by DYSU challenge who have asked for favourite colours (mine’s green but they did that last week, next best is Aqua….. so I abandoned my red and black theme for Aqua and blues.

The trouble is…Wordle wouldn’t work….I’ve got a feeling it’s something to do with Java….so having the attention span of a flea, I decided to abandon Wordle and just recreate the look with Text boxes and Word Art in Word. The bottom right corner looked a bit bare, so I inserted a little clip art pic of a motorbike (his great passion is bikes!) L.I.M. is one layer week but I did think my card needed a bit of a lift, luckily I had recently found a ridged ruler (in my big clearing the cupboard under the stairs frenzy) which was nearly perfect to create an embossed frame…actually it was a bit deep so I had to be careful.

The card was fun to create and easy but I thought I had gone off track with the theme….I looked up the definition of “script”- noun - the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing, a manuscript or document, the text of a manuscript or document, the manuscript or one of various copies of the written text of a play, motion picture, or radio or television broadcast.any system of writing.

My design has got a couple of handwriting styles incorporated but I couldn’t resist having another quick go.

This is for my friends daughter who likes all things quirky so hopefully she will like a doodled/handwritten card. I decided to go all out with the Text theme and scanned a very old newspaper (hoorah for my mum being a top hoarder…mmm guess that gene runs in the family!!) which I printed directly onto card.

Again the card was quick and simple. To keep the “white space” as clean as possible. I draft printed the text, a quick doodle later…coloured in with coloured pencils, it was soon finished….I “ummed and arrred” over a bit of ribbon for embellishment…but decided to leave it alone…if I was using my card making stuff I would possibly use a shaped brad as an accent …but card making stuff is against my blog rules …….will have a rummage around the house….. inspiration might strike!!

Have just visited LIM and spotted a card with a similar idea to my first card, Debbie has created a great design with stamps and stickers, it’s very effective, and we have both chosen very similar colours (oops perhaps I should go back to red and black!!!).

….. if any one wants itthis is the scanned paper….I cant see a copyright on it and it’s old so hopefully not breaking any rules by giving the scan away…and I tried to steer clear of any mention of the macabre, murder or naughtiness…there was even mention of “wanton behaviour”….ooh er missus!!

TORN CIRCLES...apertures.

O.K. now I'm getting obsessive...I noticed when I tore my last circle that it came out cleanly.....soooo I thought I would have a go a creating an aperture on a card blank. Again it worked well, it had to be scored and soaked several times and left inbetween but it tore away easily. the only trouble was, it was a damaged card blank so I had to cover the front to disguise the marks., which also meant I had to redo the aperture not difficult but I should have waited til the front had dried properly (I used PVA with the brown paper and that made it quite soggy and floppy!).

I have to mention the backing paper, I picked up and invaluable tip from June (Flowerbud) on Docrafts forum, she introduced me to Wordle a free online text programme, it's very simple and quite addictive to play with and you can create some great unique and personalised backing papers. I will have to explore this further, but I used one of my test pieces to cover the inside face of the card. I tissue dyed a heart on it as I will be entering it in the "hearts" challenge on the Daring Cardmakers blog. It also has the theme of music so I will enter it into the Creative Craft challenge "Music to my ears".

I created the embellishments from salvaged wire (it's extremely handy having an electrician husband...he strips the sleeving of scraps of wire for me...although I don't think this is standard household cable ...it's something to do with steel armoured underground cable...whatever... very handy and easy to bend!!). Salvaged beads from a necklace (Katie's not mine...I'm getting quite a collection, I'm glad she buys cheap jewellery, it breaks on a regular basis!), and the hanging ribbons from a top. The quote was PC printed on a scrap of card left over from my "moving" card.... a few doodles later............ I was left with a bit of a battered card!....I really should have let that front dry first!!!!!! Oh well live and learn.

Thanks again June for that tip