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The part that took the longest was trying to remember the name of the
item I wanted to model my card after! When I was little, my dad had this
gorgeous mantelpiece made of dark cherry wood which housed 3 gauges.
One was a barometer, temperature and a latitude/longitude. I remember
all the gauges as having map faces and being housed in the gorgeous,
shining gold. It was one of my favorite pieces in the house. When I saw
the challenge was to put a map on it, this was the first thing that
popped in my head! By the way...this would be called a 'weather station'
or 'Magellan Mantelpiece'. After that search, the rest was a piece of
cake. I punched the gold, texture dp with my 2.5 inch punch and the maps
with the 2-1/4 one. I colored the SU! spinners and brad with gold
mixative alcohol ink and put a thin strip of the gold DP a the top and
bottom. Some mounting tape under the circles and-oh-I also sponged the
cherry wood with Vintage Photo. I didn't put anything on the front
because I never know if I'll use it as a birthday or other type of card,
but I probably won't put anything on the front anyway! I like the way
it looks.
I'm glad everything came together with this because
I didn't sit down to start on it until almost 5pm. I'd spent the last 4
hours cleaning out my teenage son's room. While he's on some 'Leadership
Retreat' with his Jr. ROTC group, his MOTHER is sweeping out food and
candy contraband, strangling on the combined dust and general teenage
boy smell and tossing papers and progress reports that didn't seem to
make it from school and into my hands, as was the intended sequence.
I hauled out cords to electronics I didn't know existed, underwear that
fit him 3 years ago that were stuffed under the bed and shirts that
STILL HAD TAGS ON THEM.
Needless to say, I'm exhausted. Not to mention just a little, tiny bit
perturbed. Only a little, though. Despite all that, I'm still glad he's
gone on the trip because, no matter what....
...he's got to come home, eventually. (evil grin)
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