Good morning bloggers. For those of you who participated in the Summer Lovin’ Read-a-thon last week I hope you had lots of fun. I know I did! I managed to get through 6 books by the time the week was over, so I did make my realistic goal (although no where near my stretch goal) and even managed to finish three books in one day which is a new record for me…and also a reminder of what I can do with my days off instead of watching made for tv movies on twitter.
As much fun as the read-a-thon was I’m ready for a week to give attention to my crafting. I’m slowing down on the crochet this week so I can spend some quality time with my cross stitch and maybe get some real progress done…we’ll see what the week brings. As a good/bad thing work has had to cut hours almost in half because of payroll shrinkages so I only work 18 hours this week instead of 39. So small paycheck but plenty of time to catch up on all those little thins. In addition to crafting I’ve got some grad school stuff to sort out and passes to pick up, etc…so it’ll still be a busy week.
What are your plans for the week after the holiday weekend?
Getting back into the normal swing of the blogging routine, and without any further ado:
Here is your borrowed inspiration craft!
I couldn’t find a video for this craft so you’ll have to make do with pictures and links to more pictures placed in sequential order by people who know what they’re doing.
Finished project
There are two ways you can do this project The easy way, which I’ll outline here, and the complicated way which will probably lead to cleaner results.
What the project is, is an embossed water color design. Here they’re used as cards, but you could do this for just about anything.
1) Take a sheet of quality watercolor paper and cut down to the size you want
2) outline your design in pencil
3) go over you sketch marks with elmers glue (or even hot glue would work and those guns handle a little better than an Elmer’s bottle)
4) Fill in the spaces with watercolors of your choice, the glue will had the embossed texture.
5) Add any ribbons or beads as you like.
See? Simple.
Now, for the more refined way, here’s a linky. It takes you through the steps of dry embossing which sound a little complicated for someone who has never used a dry embosser before, but might be worth a try if it’s something you already have in you craft stash.
Any big craft plans for the week? Any crafts you want me to feature here? Just let me know in the comment section, and don’t forget to follow me on twitter @xstitchurheart!