#GelypostcardPlay number 16-It's All Gone Egyptian

 Good Morning all you Crafty Crazy people! Here's my number 16 postcard for #CeriTheCrafter's July Challenge! #GelypostcardPlay. Oh my giddy Aunt! I've had some fun with this one, seeing it's nothing like the beach scene, 'Surfs Up' that I had in my head and how it turned into this Egyptian postcard, I'll never know. The only thing they have in common, is sand!

This started off as a dirty browny-orangey pattern card that, once I realised I wasn't going to do a beach scene, was stamped several times with some Egyptian stamps. I think it's the fact that I was going through my boxes of stuff, which I'd starting haulding collecting, books and things for junk journaling and glue booking etc, when I came across a calligraphy book and another on how to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, which I bought cheap as chips from a charity book shop some time ago. And that was it! Gone was the bluey seascape bit of geli-paint, swapped swiftly for the dirty looking brown and orange card, and even roughed up a bit more!

First of course, I had to find my Pharaoh stamp. For years, I had one stuck on my shelf all ready coloured with gel-pens-was he there today? No...gone walk-about! I found the stamp, and coloured him using my Promarkers. Cut out what you can see mosty from the calligraphy book...it even has The Book of The Dead! Didn't use that though! Wouldn't want someone trying to read it and bringing back Aunt Mauld!

I've typed all my sentences, using a Hyeroglyphics font called 'The Nile Song' (free to download, just google the name) if I remember rightly, I've typed, Dream, Believe, Memories, Timeless and Treasure, plus of course, the number 16. The little beetle and the number 16 were cut out of a wild flower book. I've also added some jute rope and a bee charm, smudged a bit of black and gold, here and there and added the Pharaoh and one of the 'pictures' on 3D foam.

Well, I think this one is my favourite one so far. Number 16 for #Ceri The Crafters #Gelypostcardplay! Maybe it'll be the beach one tomorrow! That's it from me! Thank you for stopping by!

#gelypostcardplay Number 15!

Morning Peoples! It's raining here today, soooo....more crafting is possible! (Can't cut hedges and mow grass in the rain...) It's monday the 15th so here is my next postcard N0:15 to join in with Ceri The Crafter's #gelipostcardplay July challenge! Scroll down to find my other postcards. I wanted another quickie, coz I thought I might go do the market today, but... markets aren't fun in the rain. So! definitely more crafting instead! Saves tiding up, just jump in where I left off! (Jump in or fall over it, you mean!)

  So I started off with a greeny- twirly with white and gold bits geliroll back ground thingie. Was looking through a magazine, and found the hare, and thought!!! Light bulb moment...(and I hadn't even had my breakfast!) 'There's a Hare in my soup!' But could I find a bowl of soup??? Could I heck! I did in the end, then stamped some unreadable words on the green post card, which smudged a bit. Luckily I found a tiny bit of green geli rolled tissuepaper that has gold butterflies on it, and that nicely covered the smudgy bits up.

I inked all the way around the card with a black wedge tip Sharpie. The font I've used on all my sentiments so far and that number 15 is called, Special Elite. It's a freebie, and you can download it HERE, or google the name. That's it from me! Thank you for stopping by!