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I'm back with another Ways To Use It Challenge. Today's challenge is inspired by the eruption of Mount St. Helens on this day of 1980. I was 8 years old when it happened and I will never forget the darkening sky that morning and the subsequent ash that fell. I was over 200 miles away at the time. With that said, today's challenge is to use Mountains on your card.
A big thank you to Sabrina, Polly, and Lisa for helping me out this week with some fabulous projects. Remember to use the keyword, WT949, when uploading your project so that we can all see your creations. It helps if you link it up back here too. You can view the entire gallery for the challengeHERE.
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1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one for your card in the gallery, and one for this thread
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE
I remember that day as well. I was in high school. I couldn't believe how far the ash traveled across the nation! Thanks for a fun challenge and thank you for posting early!!
Toni, your challenge couldn't have been more timely for me. A month ago I was able to see Mt St Helens in person. You live in a GORGEOUS area of our country. My card is based on a photo I took while there. Thanks!
I dug up this PP kit and made it my own by cutting out the central panel, sponging it, then layering my die cut trees. Used a coiled twine embellishment and a stamped sentiment. Finished by repurposing the floral envelope liners for my lower horizontal border. Here's Snow capped mountains
__________________ "You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." -- Maya Angelou
I will never forget that day! I told my nine-year-old daughter to remember it all because it was history! We lived downwind by 200 miles, but the wind carried the ash in a giant cloud. My husband had been on a horseback ride and the horses suddenly took off at a barely controllable run to camp. By the time he got home he was covered in ash, as was our roof, yard, and anything unfortunate enough to be outside in the path of the ash. I was a schoolteacher, and school was cancelled for a week, we went back for a few days, and they gave up. Ash was everywhere! It was a long summer, complicated by my hysterectomy recovery. History for my family indeed!
WT949 - Mountains - 05/18/23
WT949 Snow capped mountains
