My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Club 216, You’re Close to My Heart

Good morning my friends. As usual, I'm barely sneaking this card in under the deadline for the Wednesday Sketch Club Challenge at My Favorite Things. My Favorite Things also has monthly color challenges that I haven't participated in but that is going to change, especially with the last two color palettes they've had that are incredibly yummy. They've also added around 18 or so brand new colors over the past few months to really round their color lineup and I love it. 

I have 58 minutes to get this card posted to the challenge blog, so I'm going to get that done and then figure out how to edit the fun video I made showing you how I layered up my Blueprints. My card base was the only piece of card stock trimmed by my guillotine. All of the other 3 layers are from various Blueprints. Definitely a lot of trial and error, but this is also a 4-layer card, which is very out of the box for me. I also didn't use any white card stock on the card either. I tried a new technique for me of gradient inking. I used 4 colors and had a relatively small space to work in, but I think I did okay for my first time as I tried to channel my inner Amy Rysavy (her videos are great) and Laura Bassen (her kids do her videos for her, too cute), who are the only two ladies that I know who absolutely rock this technique. I love the colors that I used and have used them previously on a winter card. They go so well together mixing orange hues with a light pink color that you would never know was pink. It just works. But, you can definitely see how well the colors blend together and coordinate perfectly for a great monochromatic look with a big pop.

I know how to work my video editing program but I'm getting a different screen now to where I can only view the raw footage and can't find the place to actually edit it. I know this is going to be a long video because I just talked my way through it and a lot of work went into this card. It's for a very sweet and special girlfriend of mine. 

Thank you so much for stopping by to visit me today. I really appreciate it. After I get this card linked up to the challenge blog, I will come back and add the video that I hopefully can figure out how to edit.

EDITED TO ADD: I spent the entire afternoon editing my video. I hated it. I even bored myself. It was that bad. This is what really happened while making this card.

1.  I dropped the BACK, thank God, into Steel Grey ink.

2.  Smudged the inside top with the same above ink but covered it with Persimmon. 

3.  Bella, my puppy, had an upset stomach and I was totally choking through almost half the video because of her, well, to be blunt, farting, and it was so gross and I altered between laughing to where I couldn't talk and rushing to open up windows, and that completely distracted me. 

4.  While I'm building up 4 layers inside and out, I'm story telling some really funny stories that are about 20 minutes long and do you really want to watch me add Scor-Tape to paper and talk about how my husband is a primate and my poor daughter cried as a baby since she looks just like him because she didn't want to have daddy's "fur," my synovial fluid blowout to where I had to replace my carpet running around with washcloths on the back and front of my knee 8 days post-op where I got cut on the front and the back, telling the anesthesiologist that I can't get an OR phobia because of how often I'm on the table for my back so she totally OD's me and knocks me out in the holding tank and I had a 2-day hangover because I don't want to wake up with a tube down my throat and gag on it because I will seriously freak out, and how the same right knee was reconstructed shy of 2 days one year ago and duct taping the washcloths to my knee and how I'm getting fake synovial fluid injections into my knee once a week for the next 5 weeks and the only reason why I looked forward to turning 50 was because they can start replacing body parts but the ONE BODY PART that I need, which is my right knee, and the other, like my spine, no such technology yet. Thursday will be 58x on that OR table in 3-1/2 years and I'm jumping back on it on Friday too because my SI joints blew out and so did my sacral spine and I am barely holding up. I need radiofrequency done on my sacral spine and insurance hasn't covered that for almost 2 years now and I really need it done. I'm on steroids, and a lot of them, that aren't even touching the pain and I'm eating them like candy. And I ran out because I am eating them like candy. I think I'm becoming immune to them. I don't get the jitters from them anymore, nor the munchies, but do not sleep and while I get a lot of stuff done, I don't like it. So, that's my story. Ugh and argh!

So, no video. I'm sorry. However, I am actually doing you a big favor too. I would talk to myself and answer myself and still do, and it drove my husband crazy. It's not like he paid much attention to me, but it still drove him nuts. And, I only finish half of my sentences and that really drove him nuts because he would wait forever for the other half and I'm sitting here now laughing so hard while I'm typing this because that drove him absolutely insane and he hated that. I don't know how he heard me in a different room over The History Channel. Have you noticed, if you're that unfortunate to be subject to that channel on 24/7, that they have the same narrator for every. single. program? That drove me absolutely insane!

I think I've finally learned that there is a fine art to videos and that's to shut up and stay focused, but that's not me or who I am at all because my mind is all over the map and I do wonder if I've developed adult ADD or something or if I'm just a little bit crazy. No. I'm not crazy. I'm outgoing and fun and a lot of people seem to like it. Others hate it. That's their problem. The older you get, the less you become a people pleaser, learn to live and let live, and get comfortable in your own skin and really don't care what others think, because you know what? They are wrong about you and again, that's their problem and I don't care. Accept yourself and don't let others define you. They don't have that right and certainly you should never give anybody that right. I did for 27 years and was miserable. I don't anymore and I'm a happier and better person because of it. Only God defines me and that's it girlfriends. 

And come to think of it, the die that I used has a left side and it should have gone over there so you would read the sentiment and then the heart would be on the right side so it flows and makes some sense. It happens.

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