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It’s Only a Paper Moon ~ an ATC painted for World Watercolour Month

Hello again! Happy Sunday. I hope that I find you in full health and ready for a bright day filled with some smiles and a little love wherever you happen to be.

I’m still dedicated to the World Watercolour Month Challenge, (as you can see) and I’m here with another little ATC moonlight painting, only this time it’s shining over the sea.

Before I began I knew I wanted to paint:- a moon, the sea and a wee little sail boat/dinghy bobbing on the ocean. So I had a plan.

As I painted, the fabulous song from ‘Paper Moon’ came back to me and I ended up singing to myself. It seemed like the perfect title to use for this post, so I did use it. As you can see! lol.

Not sure if many of you remember ‘Paper Moon’ – both the film and the made for TV programme. It starred Ryan and Tatum O-Neale, and even though I was just a little child, I can remember how much I loved watching it. I’d never seen anyone doing any of the things this father and daughter team did … and it totally fascinated me. It didn’t encourage me to try to do things like they did, I just found them both so lovable and funny and loved their love for each other.

Ry “It’s Only a Paper Moon” . . . an ATC for #WorldWatercolorMonth

The above photograph was taken with just the over-head lights to light it. So it just looks like a moon looking out over the sea, painted using regular water-colour paints.

‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’ . . . an ATC for #WorldWatercolorMonth

However … when you add more lighting, the moon begins to glow. This is down to me using some Kuretake Gansai Tambi Starry water-colour paints, in ‘White Gold’ for the moon, and ‘Blue Gold’ for the glow off the lamp which is hanging on the mast of the little boat bobbing on the ocean.

A tiny section of the painting: ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’ . . . an ATC for #WorldWatercolorMonth, *painted by Cobwebs of The Cobweborium Emporium.*

The above close up of the boat shows that the boat is actually sailing away from you in the painting. You’re looking at the back of the boat nearest to you. It also shows the little lamp which has been hung up on the mast of the little sailboat.

Finally, I placed a mount around the painted (and dried) ATC of ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’ in order to frame the painting properly and draw the eye into it.

I really enjoyed painting this one. It was lots of fun and such a happy subject matter. Loved it.

And … because I have the song ‘Paper Moon’ buzzing around my brain now, I felt it was only proper to share (as good friends do) so I visited You Tube and got the song just for you. See how much I care about you? 🙂 It’s only 2minutes and 37seconds long. You can thank me later. 😊

Well … all that’s left for me to say now is … and that’s all there was to it! 🤣 LOL

Have a truly blessed rest of your Sunday. Thank you so much for coming and sharing a coffee with me. It means more than you’ll ever know, so thank you.

Sending love, from me here in my corner, to you there in yours ~

Orthopedist? … or a CARD-iologist?

One of my fabulous blogging friends, Paper Puff, told me on the 10th of Feb – in a chat we had via the comments on one of my blog posts – about her lovely mum who had broken her ankle.

The next day Paper Puff published a post on her blog in which she told all her lovely followers about why she’d been M.I.A, and about her moms accident, and also told us all about the little matter regarding her Ninja cat (that’s not his name, that’s his skill level – read her post and you’ll see).

You can find her post here: “Broken bones, real and imagined. And a ninja cat” .. it will open in another window.

After hearing about her moms accident I asked if perhaps I could send her mum a card wishing her well, just to make her smile. It was all arranged, and I made a card, then sent it to P.Puff so that she could hand it over to Mrs.Puff Snr.

And this … is the card I made:-

How do you say I hope your broken ankle heals soon? Well that question gave me a real moment of puzzlement. Then as quick as a flash, I KNEW what I needed to do.

Now … where to get big enough cutters to cut a leg off Barbie?

I tried. I really did try. I took the cutters and offered them up to Barbie’s leg. I think it was about 4 times I did this. I even managed to press on the handles just once. Enough to see the ‘skin’ on her leg ‘bend’ under the pressure of being pressed. But I failed.

Mr.Cobs was summoned, and he arrived in the craft room with the most amazing BIG BOY TOOL. An ENORMOUS pair of wire cutters. SURGICAL Wire Cutters!

We donned our surgical gowns, and put on our face masks, then I, as the dutiful nurse on duty, marked the patients leg to show where the cut had to be made. The Senior Surgeon took his Big Boy Tool in his hands and ….. with one smooth, scissor like motion …. he amputated the lower limb of the patient in one clean-cut.

She didn’t feel a thing. Totally oblivious to the whole procedure. Although mind, she was seen having rather too many pink cocktails with Ken earlier, so she was more than likely under the affluence of incohol. (constantly in the grip of the grape from what I’ve heard from some sources!)

On Duty Nurse, Cobs, made bandages, wrapped the broken ankle in a bandage, then covered it in ‘plaster’, and added more bandages where required.

Obviously the patient had to have a few flowers, so paper ones were made – because, it must be remembered, this card was being sent to Mrs.PaperPuff Snr. – so Paper flowers were a major requirement! 😀

A little sentiment of Get Well wishes was added to the inside of the card, then finally … the card had to have a box! You couldn’t send a broken ankle in an envelope after all. A box was of great importance….

. . . . and that’s all there was to it. A card for a lady, which held a giggle and a laugh, and also a wish of health returning soon … and keeping it feminine and lady-like too!

I love quirky cards. (just in case you hadn’t noticed. lol) They bring such an element of fun and lots of smiles for the receiver, and I find them so pleasurable to make. Maybe it’s because I’m quirky. Or maybe it’s just that I’m as mad as my two girls have always told me I am. lol. Bless them. ❤

Hoping the card made you smile too, and also hoping that your Sunday is peaceful, warm, and that you know you are loved. Even if it’s only by me. You ARE loved.

Oh, and regarding the title of this post . . . I’m a CARD-iologist …. an Orthopedist is a doctor that specializes in the treatment of bones and muscles, joints, nerves, ligaments and tendons. 😀

Thanks for coming and sharing a coffee moment with me. Don’t go breaking a leg now!

If love is blind, then why is lingerie so popular?

If love is blind ... why is lingerie so popular? — If love is blind … then why is lingerie so popular?

I had so much fun making this card. It’s a large 8″x8″ card, made on white cardstock. The pink, rose and printed papers (at the two corners) are all papers which came free with magazines a while back; and the gold mirror board and flat gold card (die cut into a rectangle doily) were from my scraps drawer!

I’m very much a thrifty crafter and won’t waste great papers if I can save them – so where I knew I wanted to curl back I simply used a large triangle of paper to cover the corners of the base white card. ↑

The sentiment was stamped onto gold card and embossed in black. I felt that it needed more importance, so choose to use one of a selection of light-weight wooden frames – this one is warmer to look at than the photo shows.

I stamped out the basque ↑ onto the same colour of pink paper as the backing paper, embossed it and then attached it to a little hand-made, wire coat hanger. I punched a hole in the rectangular doily and ‘hung’ the basque from it.

If you look closely at the basque in the photo above ↑ you might be able to see that I used a white pen in places. This was to place ‘light’ in the places that natural light would have fallen on parts of the basque in real life. The ribbons, the seams, bits of the lace, etc etc.

I stamped peacock feathers ↑ over the paler of the pink backing pages, and embossed them with a pale pink, twinkly embossing powder. In the photo above you can see the embossed feathers. (I was checking the page for placement of the basque on the doily to make sure that it would look right.) ↑

Added roses in three shades, and some sprigs of a lilac type flower in white and pink. ↑

Close up photographs ↑ of the corners ↑ which were curled back so that you can see the patterned paper underneath and the two different colours of pink papers.

Although I’d curled and glued corners I wasn’t entirely convinced that the glue would hold, so I chose a large, warm pink brad for each corner to pin the paper in place.

I attached the rectangle doily, which I’d die cut on my Ebosser, to a piece of gold mirror board, then cut around the doily so that the mirror board fitted the doily exactly. Everything was then fixed in place, and voila! One more card added to the pile for charity.

I had lots of fun making this card and loved the way it’s turned out. Hope you like it too.