Another Medallion Card

I have been so enamored of Becca Feeken's Circle Frame cards that I've been collecting those corner punches. After I made the pumpkin card today, I had the scrap of My Mind's Eye dp on my table. It made me think of the circle frame card and tutorial. So, I made another one.  Ü

By now I think you must have realized that I picked up some new B plates for my Cuttlebug. LOL The background of this piece uses the Welcome Baby folder(found today at the show). It comes with some dies as well, but I can see me using the folder way more than the dies. One of the parts of the folder is an open space for your sentiment. Rather than stamp a sentiment, I cut a piece of the dp to fit. I almost added some ribbon, but in the end chose not to.

The punch is called wrought iron and is used on CTMH's Goldrush cardstock. It's matted on the textured Autumn Terracotta. I used my circle Nestabilities to cut out the circles. I sponged some Goldrush and Autumn Terracotta inks and added some pearls.

And there you have my efforts to celebrate the day. I hope you have enjoyed what I have shared.

Here's another little off-topic tidbit that I just discovered about Live Writer. Yesterday after I posted my project, I was playing around with Live Writer and started clicking things to see what would happen. I discovered that there is a way to add your watermark! Those who are veteran LW users probably know this, but I was tickled. Most pictures of my artwork do not have a watermark and the main reason is I am lazy! I would have to start up Photoshop Elements or use my Paint program and it's another step in the whole posting process. So I don't usually do that.

If you have your LW set up like mine, there is a sidebar on the right of the screen. When you click on Insert Picture the sidebar changes to what you need to add your picture. If you look at the top of that sidebar you'll see three tabs. Image, Advanced, Effects are the names on the tabs. If you click on Effects you'll see the word Effects: with a green plus sign or red minus sign. Below it is a big white box. Click on the green plus sign and you'll see an option called Overlays. Click on that and you'll see Watermark! You can type in what you want, change the font and size of the font and even select where you want it to show up on the picture. Pretty cool, huh? Well, for me it means you'll see my watermark on my photos from now on! Ü

Thanks again for stopping by. I hope you have a great rest of your weekend. We'll see if I manage to wander into my corner again at some point...

Jeanne