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It's the last Tuesday of the month so that means it's time for our Teapot Tuesday Tickle Challenge
This week's challenge is brought to you by guest hostess
sue28/Sue
CHALLENGE: Apart from card making I also love reading books, my favourite genre being historical fiction. So my challenge is to make a card inspired by the cover of a book you have just read or are about to read, as in my case. It can be the layout of the cover, the colours or the artwork that inspires you. Don’t forget to mention what book you chose to use for your inspiration.
SEND CARDS TO: This week our destination is each other! Once a month, we send our cards to each other!
Check out THIS NEW THREAD in the TEApot Tuesday Extras Forum. If you are participating in the card exchange please go to this thread and follow the instructions. Make sure to sign up by bedtime on Saturday 4th April 2020. Your destination recipient will be PM'd to you.
Quick Link to today’s Teapot Tuesday Challenge Gallery: MMTPT610
Be sure to you use KEYWORD MMTPT610 in your upload and post a comment here so we can all see your card!
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This was actually a HARD challenge for me - I was for all my life a voracious reader. That is until my eyesight went all wonky from a macular hole - now trying to read a novel is virtually impossible so I gave away my accumulation of books. I did keep ONE that was super special to me called "A Cowboy Christmas"
I chose a book which I was reading at the time Sue sent me the challenge - a memoir written by a librarian in a prison, called Reading Behind Bars. As I usually have several books on the go, book inspiration wouldn't be a problem - book covers was harder!
This is the cover of Reading Behind Bars
and you will see that I used the pile of books (got at least two stamps with piles of books) as my inspiration. MMTPT610 Books Behind Bars
Joyce great colors today!!
Sue love the theme you chose for Tickle Week!
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__________________ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
I am currently reading "Trouble in Nuala ( The Inspector de Silva Mysteries)" by Harriet Steel. It is about a murder that occurs on a tea plantation in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) during the art deco era. I originally stamped the elephant and cut him/her out and realized it looked too big for the background.
I used to collect stamps as a kid and thought I would see if I had an old stamp from Ceylon, found one and copied that on the copier. bgpunky Member Gallery - Page 1 - Splitcoaststampers.com
__________________ SueEllen
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature
may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
Keep close to nature's heart ...
and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
God never made an ugly landscape. John Muir
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and heart may fail, God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
After a PM conversation last night I was inspired to make a second card, based on a book I read recently. This card will go to my sister, who loaned me the book; I subsequently bought my own copy.
Oh I would love to join in again this month. I’ve been reading the same book for weeks and it’s one of those books that you read a chapter, put it down and can pick it back up easily. Even my brain can deal with it lol.
I love reading and we have 2 bookcases stuffed full but I am thinking I may use the current book as it seems appropriate to use it and to send a tickle from here to someone overseas.
Count me in and I will put my thinking cap on.
Keep safe and well everyone.
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What a fantastic challenge Sue. I've been trying to think of a book and card to make all week long. I've read so many. I finally decided on "The Joy Luck Club" which I read years ago. It was very good and I wanted to make an Oriental themed card.
Thanks for an inspiring challenge, Sue. Perfect time to get some reading recommendations. I just finished reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Marvelous read!
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YEs thank you sue for such a fun challenge....here is my card with the funny book.
and HERE is the inside
__________________ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
If anyone is interested, here’s Dorothea Mackellar reciting her poem before she passed away. She wrote the poem in 1908 when she was homesick in England. She recited this when she was in her 80’s.
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Thursday: Ways To Use It Challenge
Monthly: MMJ Challenge….get inky and have fun
This was a fun challenge Sue. I am currently reading Separation Anxiety: A Novel by Laura Zigman. It's already had me laughing a few times. The main character, Judy, starts carrying the family dog, a 20+ Sheltie, around in a baby sling/papoose to relieve her anxiety. She's kind of going through a mid-life crisis and carrying the dog around brings her comfort. The cover was also perfect for this challenge so I was excited to make my card albiet a little late. I had a 6x6 pad of Pink & Main DSP for a while - it had almost the exact colors of the book cover. Score! Here's my card and the book cover.
MMTPT610 - March 31, 2020- Covered
