Glue ‘n’ Seal winner

This is a super easy card.  It’s the same napkin you saw on my canvas a couple of posts ago,  glued onto watercolour paper with Glue ‘n’ Seal.  I used watercolour paper because of it’s absorbency.  All paper will warp when you add moisture, but as this is designed for water, I’ve found it hardly warped at all with this glue and certainly didn’t do the helter-skelter (you know, where it cockles so badly you could lean it against the wall and charge a pound a ride!).

I got four pieces out of one napkin and all I did was apply the glue to the paper, then carefully laid down the napkin.  I smoothed it onto the glue with a soft wide dry brush, then applied Glue ‘n’ Seal over the top.  When dry, I trimmed the whole thing and mounted onto a purple card then pearl green layer before sticking to a purple scalloped card.

It’s such a pretty design that I didn’t want to cover it up too much so used a tiny foiled birthday greeting (from Craftwork Cards) with a ribbon bow underneath.

You may notice I went back to my old blog design over the weekend – the new one really was not liveable with.  When I was logged in and viewing the blog, all the WordPress admin links were showing up in odd places over the top of the design so I couldn’t click on any of the menu links or post titles.  It would seem that particular template has not been updated to suit the newer version of WordPress that I have, so it’s had to go.

And I remembered one of the reasons I went for this template in the first place was it’s ability to have numbered comments.  It is SO much easier doing a blog giveaway when your comments have numbers attached to them.  It’s even clever enough not to number my own replies, so it makes it super easy peasy.  (It’s called Suffusion for the need to know geeks.)

So in conjunction with random.org, I am pleased to announce that the winner is ….. Shirley who said:

Morning Glenda,
The glue & seal looks fabulous…I love what you have done with the stencils too….more for my wish list which get ever longer.
I would love to win the glue & seal as I am trying to experiment with mixed media a bit more.
Shirley x

Well Shirley, get out your lab coat and test tubes, you’re all set to start experimenting very soon!

To everyone else, commiserations, but do keep an eye on the Design Team blog as there’s lots about to happen over there.  We have a new DT member who will be announced this month, new stamps coming out (which of course means more new artwork) plus a guest blogger regularly featured in Craft Stamper.

And I will be back soon – I’ve been playing with the gorgeous new Prima paper stacks.  I haven’t treated myself to new paper for AGES and I am loving it!  There are three sheets of each design in the pad and that means I can use up a whole sheet and still have two left to stroke!  Someone at Prima understands the way a paperholic’s mind works …