Kaleidoscope Card

I recently gave a class at Bizzy B's making mechanical paper doll cards.  I seem to always overestimate how much we can achieve in the time allotted.  So as a way to provide the class and the how to's I've made a video. This is done in three parts and at the end of the blog will be my complete written instructions with a complete supply list.

Part One:

Part Two:

Part Three:

Supplies used:

• Character Constructions Stamps:
• Beekeeper's Tea #7
• French Laundry #13
• Queen of Tarts #3 and #2
• Impression Obsession Flourishes Cover a Card stamp
• B-Line Don't Let Life Ruffle stamp
• Stampotique Spikey stamp
• Tsukineko #05 Clear embossing powder
• Memento Tuxedo Black ink
• Distress Ink
• Mustard Seed
• Dusty Concord
• Colour Box Black pigment ink
• Bo Bunny Ambrosia 12x12 paper
• Deep Red/ Burgundy cardstock
• Simply Smooth cardstock
• pop dots
• Touch Markers
• 43 Deep Olive Gree
• 47 Grass Green
• 133 Baby Skin Pink
• 139 Flesh
• R5 Cherry Pink
• Copic Markers
• YR07 Cadmium Orange
• E55 Light Caramel

 

Step 1: Cut lines on back of card front.  (Printed on back of Bo Bunny Ambrosia paper 4 ¾ x 6 ¾”)

Step 2: Cut the lines on the moving picture template.

Step 3: Use the template for the circle as a mask to stamp Stampotique figure.

Step 4: Emboss being sure to keep circle edges free and being careful not to distort the paper.

Step 5: Stamp birds.

Step 6: Stamp dress on Memory Box paper, emboss and cut out.

Step 7: Masking so parts beyond dress top do not show, stamp Character Constructions head on front of cut moving picture element.

Step 8: Emboss and colour.

Step 9: Mask stamped head and stamp background and birds.

Step 10: Stamp tab of mechanism.

Step 11: Stamp emboss and cut out arms.

Step 12: Stamp, emboss, and cut out fan.

Step 13: Assemble mechanism: Directions and template originate from: Sheila Sturrock, Making Mechanical Cards, Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd; Lewes, East Sussex, 2009.

Step 14: Use the fan in front and the 1” circle in the back.

Step 15: Use pop-dots to attach dress to card front in position, being careful to keep dots away from turning mechanism underneath.

Step 16: Use pop-dots to attach card front to card body.

Beauty in My Eyes

On the weekend I found a new toy.  I had been searching for one of these for a while now.  For a time, I could walk down Queen St. East anytime and have my pick of them all at reasonable prices, but then a lot of the marginal shops moved out as gentrification progressed in its inevitable way.  I had missed my chance and now would have to wait for happenstance.

On the way to a ROM walk, which was incredibly good by the way, we passed by the St. Lawrence Market's antique sale.   I told my husband that seeing as we arrived early we could have a quick look around.  Well the first place set up on the outside of the North building had exactly what I was looking for and was willing to let us have it for a really good price.  A few days early, but Happy Birthday to me.

  I don't know the exact vintage, but it's somewhere in the late 30's.  All the parts work, the letters are clear, even the ribbon seems pretty good.  And it was made in Toronto.  Imagine that!  I am so happy about this find.  Now at last I have a typewriter to help me finish what I wanted to do with my Zombie Manual.  Fun times.


Now I got around to taking pictures because I looked outside and saw that my peonies were beautifully lit and screamed to have their pictures taken.  These peonies were started from seeds kindly given to me by a gentleman from the Canadian Peony Society at a Canada Blooms show.  I started with a bunch of seeds, 10 germinated that summer and one, this beautiful one, made it through the winter to bloom the very next year.  This plant is heavily shaded by a very weedy wisteria, but manages year after year to produce these stunning blooms.  Where ever that gentleman may be, he always has my deepest thanks.