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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2012, 11:34:43 AM »

It's OK. We love you anyway, even if you're "special".


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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #26 on: November 21, 2012, 11:38:03 AM »
Em I put your screen name at the top so you would read this.  I just ordered a bunch of Christmas stuff for making cards and other christmas stuff. If you would like to come over one day and make cards, tags for presents and other stuff let me know. I have a lot of ideas. I probably won't get the items I ordered for about a week.

I posted this so I have to come back and post pictures of what I make so I will actually do it.



WTH?   :bawl:  I get no invite?






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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #27 on: November 21, 2012, 11:54:22 AM »
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."

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A community may possess all the necessary moral qualifications, in so high a degree, as to be capable of self-government under the most adverse circumstances; while, on the other hand, another may be so sunk in ignorance and vice, as to be incapable of forming a conception of liberty, or of living, even when most favored by circumstances, under any other than an absolute and despotic government.

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2012, 11:55:51 AM »
WTH?   :bawl:  I get no invite?

Well, duh!  The thread is titled "Christmas Crap", not "Hey, ho-ho-ho"...   :tongue:   :-)
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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #29 on: November 21, 2012, 02:17:11 PM »
Well, duh!  The thread is titled "Christmas Crap", not "Hey, ho-ho-ho"...   :tongue:   :-)

What do you call this?

'HO HO HO"




















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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #30 on: November 21, 2012, 03:11:24 PM »
WTH?   :bawl:  I get no invite?

If you want to drive to Austin you always have a place to stay.  :wink:

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #31 on: November 21, 2012, 03:16:35 PM »
If you want to drive to Austin you always have a place to stay.  :wink:

Me too? 

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #32 on: November 29, 2012, 12:26:23 AM »
This card took me forever to "think up" but now that I have it down I could mass produce it easily.

First I cut the colored paper in strips. Then cut then each 1/2" different lengths. I have a beautiful birch tree stamp, it has 5 tree trunks (I think). I stamped it then cut one of the trunks out for the Christmas tree. Then I used a die to cut out the back ground. I aged the back ground and patterned paper strips that make the tree.

Next I stamped and embossed the word JOY in white embossing powder then cut it out with a die that also embosses. While it was still in the die I dirtied it up with the same ink I used above. Then I used a different die to cut out the snowflake and used really thick embossing powder on it. Last I put some "bling" in the lower corner because it needed something.

I tell you, it sure it hard thinking up ideas. I got the idea for the tree from a card I had seen a few days ago. I couldn't find it again and I couldn't remember what the rest of the card looked like. It's funny, you sit down to make one card you have an idea for and you end up with a totally different one.

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #33 on: November 29, 2012, 03:55:19 AM »
Well, I made my dad a birthday card today. He will be 73 November 27th. I made the front then use grommets to attach it to the card front.  As soon as I put the last one in (upper right) I noticed they were not all in the same place. I'm pissed and the perfectionist in me is telling myself to redo the card. I could get the license, bingo piece (notice it is a 73) off. It wouldn't take too long to do the rest over.

The Nebraska license plate I made.  It's from a paper pad by Tim Holtz and this small rectangular piece of plastic. You use this stuff called glossy accents and after it dried i cut around the rectangle. Glossy Accents is like glue but dries to a glossy finish so you can use it for things like what I did or put it on top of something you want glossy.



What would you all do, redo it or say its good enough?

I did not notice the grommets at first. I really think it's a neat looking card.

I am also very anal and like things to be perfect. It's easier to say "let it fly" then to actually do it.

If you can get yourself to do so, send it just like it is. Old license plates were never perfect! I know way too many adults & young people that do not send their parents cards, let alone take the time to make one by hand. I simply think that is simply awesome of you.  :cheersmate:

Great picture:



 

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #34 on: November 29, 2012, 04:47:41 PM »
Card

I touched the stickles (sparkle stuff) under the "tis the season". I have to retouch. Only thing not made by me was the stockings. They were already made by Martha Stewart.  I even stamped the green dots on the green paper.  :-)



Because the card is corrugated cardboard I put a piece of white paper inside to write on.


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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #35 on: November 29, 2012, 04:59:49 PM »
"Let's be Merry"?  Is that a dog whistle for "Let's be Gay"?    :panic:


They look nice.

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #36 on: November 29, 2012, 05:46:47 PM »
"Let's be Merry"?  Is that a dog whistle for "Let's be Gay"?    :panic:


They look nice.

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #37 on: December 01, 2012, 08:41:41 AM »
This one I used my digital cutting machine (Silhouette).


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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #38 on: December 01, 2012, 09:32:33 AM »
This one I used my digital cutting machine (Silhouette).


ooh I love that one Beg!!
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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #41 on: December 02, 2012, 12:26:00 AM »
I was thinking of using one of the cards above but making it smaller to mass produce. It's easy and fast. Except I only had three more stockings the same size as the ones above. I made a smaller card like the one below and put the stockings in the squares but I haven't put a saying on it yet so I haven't taken a picture of it yet. Now I either have to make something, stamp something or change the box sizes to fit more items.

I used the same paper as I used for the first card.  I cut ho ho with my silhouette cand embossed it

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #42 on: December 02, 2012, 07:41:14 AM »
Those are gorgeous Beg, and you could definitely make money selling them.
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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #43 on: December 02, 2012, 10:53:05 PM »
These are half circles that are folded into trees. Took me forever to figure out where to fold them.


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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #44 on: December 03, 2012, 01:15:35 AM »
They all look nice!

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #45 on: December 03, 2012, 07:47:11 AM »
They all look nice!

Such the diplomat.  :p

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #46 on: December 04, 2012, 10:05:32 AM »
Hallmark.......here we come!
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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #47 on: December 04, 2012, 10:41:22 AM »
Hallmark.......here we come!

Screw that. I just bought 3 boxes of cards at Walmart for $2.97 per box. I think there are 22 cards (and envelopes) in each box.

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #48 on: December 04, 2012, 10:55:52 AM »
Screw that. I just bought 3 boxes of cards at Walmart for $2.97 per box. I think there are 22 cards (and envelopes) in each box.

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Just make sure not to send the same cards to the same people two years in a row.  :rofl: :rofl:

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Re: Traveshamockery and Christmas crap
« Reply #49 on: December 04, 2012, 11:15:58 AM »
Just make sure not to send the same cards to the same people two years in a row.  :rofl: :rofl:

That would be a detail that I'm completely uninterested in.

And, I dare say, the people to whom I send these cards wouldn't remember wtf I sent them the year before either.  :rotf:
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