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The Raven

This is my Raven card for the Clue swap I talked about in my Poe post.

Edgar

This card was made for the Literary CLUE swap. We have to make a card of a suspect, weapon, or location to play an online game of Clue. We will be playing May 23. The swap/game was set up for 25 deck, 7 each but not enough people signed up. Enough signed up to play the game but there were only 2 weapons so I am going to do another card of another weapon...The Raven. Haha!! So I need to get on that cause they are due in a month. I think my raven card is going to be simple though, just my image stamped in black on white paper. But we shall see what I come up with. I should mention our cards had to be based on literary from long ago. Also this is my second face carving so I think im getting a little better. I have a long way to go though.

And I found an awesome image for the Charle Brown stamp. So my interest has been a little renewed. :) But im still behind in some other areas I want to catch up on...my own traditional letterboxes, some odds and end stuff around the house, the rest of my LTC's. Spring is here and I need clean up my flower patches. The list just goes on and on.

UGH!!

I love making LTC's but im totally burnt out. I have 2/3 more to do and that is about it for awhile..summer at least. I want to go letterboxing this summer and carve for my own boxes to plant. So I just finished one, then possible one more for that same theme, a Charlie Brown one, and a summer vacation one. My ideas are not flowing as well as they once did. I need a break. I tried to watch my due dates and got carried away so I really dont have alot of time but I can wait until May 1st maybe to do the Charlie Brown one and then right after that I would have to do the vacation one. Im debating on dropping the Charlie Brown one, I really want a set of Peanuts cards but I cant find a good Charlie Brown image that hasnt been done to death. I found a couple of him dancing and thought that would be cute. NOT the baseball mound one, nor the Christmas tree one, or Lucy's help stand either..boring. Still love them but too common.
And now I have this money making idea. God. I know. But the brain never stops trying and I just have to find that one thing.....
Hahahahaha!! This time is not that one thing BUT it is for that one thing right now kind of thing. Haha. Coffie Cup Cozies. Cute, look easy and a local coffee shop said they would like to see them after I make a few to consider selling.
Our small little main street is going to have their Thursday night late night thing again this year but new they are opening it up to crafters to set up tables and sell stuff. But I do not want something cheap and cheezy but I wanted to think up something, or various somethings. I dont know. Maybe nothing either. Haha! I just want a way to make some vacation money. We want to go to Austin again of course always but also Arizona and maybe somewhere new neither of us have been, even something like the black hills.
So this is just some rambling thoughts going around in my head.

Pez LTC

This LTC was made for The Old Fashioned Candy Barrel swap. We had to pick a candy and make a retro card for it. I picked Pez. Then I made a wrapper and wrapped the card in foil then glued the Pez wrapper around it. Haha. I thought it turned out pretty cool.

This is also my first portrait carve, well besides Mowgli but I dont count that one. It was a very simple image so I figured it would be an easier carve. I had a little trouble with the eyes and that is mostly because I kept looking at the pic to carve them but forgot the image was backwards. Duh!! Hahaha! And her hair pretty much sucks. I should have recarved it. But I want to get better at carving portraits so I can carve one of Sophia.

Current LTC

My latest LTC card. Its Mowgli. For a Jungle Book Swap. Sophia just loved this one, I made it while she was here. So she ended up making one of her own, but it got lost so I made her one and tucked it into her trip bag for when she headed home.