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I am mother to four and my wonderful dil Lisa recently blessed us with our first grandchild. I share my life with my indulgent husband, and my love of hobbies

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Totally gorjuss dt

Well its Saturday and that means there is a new challenge on Totally gorjuss, to create soemthing with "water".  To me water and bubbles go hand in hand, only problem is that if you live in Africa, you cannot rely on anything.  We have a problem this side of the world called "COPPER THIEVES", now i see you scratching your head, so let me fill you in:  These fools seem to crawl outa the woodwork on a regular basis, they dig up the copper wiring which we rely on for telephone connections etc, not giving a thought to the fact that they may get electrocuted, and thats it you are stuck without any contact with the rest of the world till some clever somebody comes along to do the reapirs.  I have been in such a lather about this as i have not been able to do anything online for about 48 hours, serious withdrawals.

I missed the deadline for the dt challenge but am still doing my post as i am gonna enter this into the Magnolialicious highlights challenge.  I used bubble blower Tilda, made my free standing pop up card using a piece of acetate for my pop up bit, then i added some dimensional glaze to the acetate for the bubbles and just to show you how cold my studio gets, it cracked while it was drying.  I thought i was gonna redo it and then thought, why? it looks exactly like bubbles with all the added cracked bubbles inside of bubbles that we sometimes get.

Image was colored with copics, lots of diamond stickles, and i made my flowers with various sizes of EK Success flower punches.  Hope you like it.

smiles
Paola
P.S: cant begin to explain how relieved i am to be back on line, SHEW!

17 comments:

  1. Hey my special friend!! Wondered why you'd been so quiet, should have guessed huh lol!! When I hear stories like this my home sickness goes away hehe. Your card is absolutely STUNNING as always. I just luv it. Lotsa luv xxxx

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  2. Hi Paola, such a pretty project! Love how you used the acetate and all those bubbles are gorgeous!
    I haven't visited your blog for a while as I was on vacation - girl, you've created so many beautiful cards since my last visit!Love your work!
    Hugs,
    Silvie from France

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  3. Very pretty stand-up card, Paola! I like how the glaze naturally cracked while drying as it gave the bubble a special effect. Great idea to use acrylic for the pop-up...I love it! Copper thiefs? We have that problem in Hawaii also. They take it from the freeway, the golf course, anywhere they can find copper and yes, no water and no lights. Sigh! Hugs, Cami

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  4. Love the new look! Your card is stunning as usual. My phone is down too - has been for about two weeks, but weirdly enough, the internet is still working?? Maybe they only stole half a cable here. LOL

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  5. Hi Paola! You're not alone...we have copper theives here in Texas too! What will people stoop to next? Any-hooo! Your Free Standing Pop Up card is totally gorgeous. What a very cook idea to use the acetate for the tag portion and to have the bubbles look so realistic! I love your coloring, the whole projects is really stunning. Well done, my friends...hugs...Barb

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  6. A beautiful card Paola, just love this one. hugs Sharon

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  7. So sweet Paola!!! Beautiful card. I love the bubbles! Sorry about your copper thief problem!
    hugs,
    Shell

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  8. Care to take a peek??? Paola, I'm always thrilled to view your works of art!!!!
    This is a creative genius at work.....absolutely gorgeous!!!!

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  9. Oh Paola,
    I am sorry you were out of touch! We too have copper thieves, but it is usually piping and such...hacking out wires is really despicable!
    Your card is truly adorable! I'm glad you were able to share it with us! Love the bubbles ans all the SPARKLES!
    Hugs to you,
    Pam

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  10. WOW Paola, this is stunning, love the whole thing. Sarah x

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  11. Oh my gosh this is amazing! Just utterly amazing!! (sorry, but I am literally stuck on the word amazing with this creation. It just blew my mind because, guess what, it is AMAZING!)

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  12. Hi Paola,
    wow you have change your blog layout . It's lovely.
    And your gard amaizing , wow it's like I am in fairytell :)

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  13. wow!!! Just so beautiful and magical! Hugs Juls

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  14. I'm glad you're back too! I became a follower because of the candy but I've stayed because of the wonderful art you create. This is simply inventive and gorgeous. Love the whole bubble thing. How creative!

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  15. Hi Paola, You have done an outstand job with this months challenge dear!! love everthting you have done with it.. BEAUTIFUL

    Thank you for joining us in the the challenge this month!
    hugs, Janiel

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  16. Absolutely Gorgeous! I love that you used the acetate for the tag part of the card! Wish I'd thought of that... its just perfect with the bubbles.

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Paola