Today's Lesson From The Craft Room: It is better to remain silent and have people say, "I wonder what he's thinking," than to speak up and have people say, "I wonder why he spoke."
This was the wisdom that Benjamin Disraeli, the nineteenth-century British prime minister shared with a new member of Parliament who had asked for his advice. What if we only spoke when we had something to say that other people really needed to hear? I have a feeling I would be much more quiet and my words much more meaningful. How 'bout you?
The word "toot" immediately came to mind when I saw this palindrome challenge! I figured it would be better to make a card with a train than to make one with a large bean! lol! I paper pieced the train using various punches and some simple cutting. See if you can figure out which punches were used for the different parts of the train! The smoke was created by punching the scallop oval circle in a piece of scrap paper and using that as a stencil to sponge going gray ink. The letters are rub-ons that I picked up at an office supply store. The background paper is one of the pages in the Sweet Pea designer paper collection from SU! Hope you like it!!!!
Accessories: white brads, scallop oval punch, large tag punch, 3/4" square punch, word window punch, 3/4" circle punch, round tab punch, 1" circle punch, rub on letters, sponge
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Fri, Jan 22, 2010 @ 4:09 PM
Totally adorable!
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Fri, Jan 22, 2010 @ 4:32 PM
You are a hoot Michelle! Too funny. But this train card is adorable! I too love the boy in the window and that darling tree! Super job and very creatively done. TFS!
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Fri, Jan 22, 2010 @ 8:22 PM
Too funny, but when I saw the "toot" was so glad to see a train too.....if you know what I mean. I had even thought of doing a card using "poop" but thankfully I passed on that one. Your card is darling as is your write up. Love it! TFS :0)
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Sat, Jan 23, 2010 @ 11:23 PM
Very cute. I enjoy your little 'lessons'. Fun to read. And yes, I'm glad that all the tooting in the gallery for this challenge seems to be trains, not beans... Great challenge card!
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