One or two of you asked about the Polaroid Challenge last week, was it a Polaroid I had to take of something or what? Well, it's a mock up of a Polaroid photograph. You have one piece of white card measuring 4.2" x 3.8" and another which you work on measuring 3 1/8"square.
I've never heard of doing Polaroids before, but in papercrafting there are lots of things that we do - inchies, twinchies, ATC's (and circular ATC's known as ATC Coins), tags etc but I am enjoying doing them and here are my first ones: (apologies to those who have seen them on Facebook or Instagram)
1 - 3 Sitting Down; Wings for Things; Head Swap
For these I used
1 - 479 Be Confident; Wild Honey, Dried Marigold DI's; Stencils 38 Cracked Walls, 95 Sunrise; Vintage Photo DI
2 - 416 Be Beautiful; Broken China, Shaded Lilac DI's; Stencil 112 Heapza Hexagonz; Wild Honey DI
3 - 422 Fly Free (Head); 425 The Captain (Body & Case); Background was a Mop Up
4-6 Birds; Animal, Mineral, Vegetable; Friendship
For these I used
4 - 407 Chicken Dance; 409 Home; 342 Windows; Cracked Pistachio, Mermaid Lagoon DO's
5 - 526 Serengeti; 522 Dinos; Tumbled Glass, Salvaged Patina, Crushed Olive, Lucky Clover DO's, Stencil 112 Heapza Hexagonz
6 - Lil Abs; Lil Tracy; Lil Leoni (Ltd Ed); Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw DO's Washi tape #1
7-9 How Does Your Garden Grow Monochrome, Famous Face
For these I used
7 - 426 The Gardener; 510 Grow; Speckled Egg, Twisted Citron DO's; Stencil Dandelion Field, Sunrise
8 - 428 Charlie; all stamping was embossed in Black; Stencil 126 478 Lotza Starz
9 - 488 Salvador; Stormy Sky, Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo DI's (to represent the background of his painting 'The Persistence of Memory'); Washi tape #4
10-12 Hats Off, Holiday, Read a Good Book
For these I used
10 - 478 Choose Happy; 516 Peekaboo; 284 Hat Drama; Peeled Paint, Cracked Pistachio DO's; Stencil 113 Lotza Squares
11 - 422 Fly Free; 516 Peekaboo; Map for Background
12 - 415 Good Book; 423 Seaside (glasses); 461 Have a Seat (Teddy Bear); 409 Home (Books); Wild Honey, Dried Marigold DI's; Stencil 126 Lotza Starz
13-15 Good to be Home; Wonderland, off to see the Wizard; Birthday Celebration
For these I used
13 - 461 Have a Seat; 342 Windows; 414 Bear Hugs (lamp); 296 All Good Things (dog); Washi - Horticultural Layers; Background was a mop up and used Lotza Dotz stencil.
14 - 524 Follow the Rainbow; White Rabbit; Dorothy; Toto; Signs; Broken China, Peeled Paint DO's.
15 - 379 Party with Me (words & bunting); 542 Sparks of Nature (balloons); 316 Oh Boy (bone); 296 All Good Things (dog); 417 Coffee Time (dog bowl - bottom half of cup); 373 Rescue Puppies; Die 22 Check Figures, Salty ocean, Broken China DO's.
That is half the month done. I'll show you the remainder as and when I do them. I have an idea that I will turn them into a book when I have finished but I am not disclosing how as it is a technique I learned with Tracy Evans a long time ago when we did a book similar with tags.
Guess I had better show you my desk now that I have done all of this or Miss Julia, Queen of Deskers, who is in charge of all of us
WOYWW'ers, will have my "guts for garters" with the length of this post. I did leave it until the last minute for this one but typed the above earlier. Here goes:
My Felix box of small Janet Klein's, My heat gun, my plastic A4 box full of ready cut images and my box with all sorts of bits in that I might need for the Polaroids. Now I had better get on with my ATC swaps. And to finish off here is the sunset from Tuesday night - over our back garden fence:
