Thursday 26 February 2009

Eyeballed...........

Hee hee hee I just love this Paper Artsy stamp. It's a little bit freaky, a little bit cartoonish and a little bit 'Doctor Who'. (For those of you who may not know, Doctor Who is a British cult TV programme about a time travelling doctor who encounters all sorts of weird creatures).
So, this is an ATC I managed to squeeze into my hectic week, just for the sake of it. Art for art's sake. I started with an inky background then added one of my fave number background stamps by Paper Artsy. Then I added the image. At this point I really didn't like it and it nearly went into the bin. This is not unusual for me and I have been known to retrieve things from the bin the next day and carry on working on them at a later date. Sometimes they have even picked up a few scratches and bin-type marks along the way but it all adds to the character. (Hee hee hee - you'll think of this and wonder what those little marks are if you ever swap ATCs with me!)

I added my usual bit of stitching and then some words which I cut from my best ever purchase from a second hand book store - 'The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations'.
Now off for some shut-eye. Tomorrow I face something that most teachers dread - LESSON OBSERVATION. Yikes! I must do my best to look like super-teacher even if it is Friday morning and I am already worn out by the first four days of the week. Never mind, got a day of journaling to look forward to with Dy at http://www.afth.co.uk/ on Sunday :-)
Ciao for now.........................

5 comments:

  1. Love the card, Kate! That's quite an interesting stamp you've used! Whatever kind of creature it is, it's having a bad hair day LOL.

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  2. i like the atc!!!! and i do rembember dr who hihi! the old episodes... as a kid i watched that and star trek hih!

    stay cool and your day will go well! once a good teacher always a good teacher! i never used to let it freak me out! i just carried on my class like nobody else was there!

    xox tanya

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  3. Just love that atc!! I stock Paper Artsy but not that stamp as I too thought it was a bit weird. Fantastic job you've done with it.
    hugs sue x

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  4. The card's great Kate, the colours are wonderful as well as the stitching and words ... you really know how to get the composition right.

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  5. This is one cool card, bin marks and all. I cannot help see a correlation between the large, obtrusive eyeball and the Lesson Observation that you would have had on Friday. Art is a manifestation of life, eh?
    :-)
    Shelly

    P.S. I love Dr. Who.

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