Brenda and Nancy (aka Tessaduck and stiz2003) are jointly hosting this weeks Teaparty for the very wonderful (and wounded) One4Joy aka Susan. Susan has trained for almost one year for a big bike race, unfortunately Susan had a bad bike accident, shattered her clavicle and now requires surgery. I know our cards won't put Susan back on the road for this yearÂ’s race, but I do hope a little bit of Teapotter love will bring some sunshine and smiles.
Not everyone can wear lycra, but I think Annie Londonderry and her husband, Max Kopchovsky can pull this look off. Did you know that Annie was the first woman to bicycle around the world!!!
As you can see they are both sponsored by Nike. Annie and Max's shorts and matching boots were hand drawn then cut from scraps. I cheated a bit with their legs and cut strips of black cardstock to shape, then added some spots and stripes using a white paint pen before sticking them on the card.
The picture looks a bit foggy, I think this is due to the Izink ink I used on the background along with distress inks (both applied using the smack & squirt technique). I also swished a silver brilliance ink pad over the bike; it looks good in real life, but not so good in the photo.
I think I mentioned once before that I could only ride my bike in a straight line and I couldn't ride around corners. Mum would stand out the front of the house; wave us off to school until we got to the corner, where upon I would fall off in spectacular fashion every day and from there I would walk my bike to school!! This was before protective clothing and bike helmets - hmmm I wonder if that is what's wrong with me. I never had the heart to tell my parents I couldn't ride and that I didn't want a bike LOL.
I sort of caused a bike accident a few years ago. A girlfriend dragged me along to a free open day at her gymnasium. Not being terribly athletic, I was on the walking machine minding my own business, when an instructor walked past and turned the speed up. I flew off the back of the treadmill and crashed sideways into a lady on an exercise bike - unfortunately there were about 10 bikes in a row ......they all fell off like dominos. Funny enough I was not pressured in to signing up for gym membership.
I had better sign off and get this in the mail. Thank you for looking.
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Sat, Nov 21, 2015 @ 1:13 PM
Precious, my precious! Just too bad it took a shattered clavicle to lay claim to a susie australia original...JK. NOT. Your card is a treasure full of creative genius. I so wanna channel the inner {u}. Love the doodles and that background...Awe~mazing. Thank you, thank you for cheering me up and onward with my two fav things.
Hugsz
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