How Superstitious are You?

 

 Hello!

Trying to keep this one quick and short today.  That'll make a change eh>

 

This week Joanne has set an opportune challenge (it being Friday 13th today) over at the Daring Cardmakers

 

Superstition

How superstitious are you? Is Friday 13th unlucky in your book? Today's challenge is to be inspired by a superstition! Here are a few examples to get you thinking:
Throw a pinch of spilled salt over your left shoulder to blind the devil - you might feature an image of a little devil or a salt pot. Or use actual salt in your project (e.g. make a salted watercolour background).
Knock on wood for luck - use woodgrain pattern or something made of actual wood on your project. 
Breaking a mirror is seven years’ bad luck - use mirror card, a mirror image or a shattered pattern.

Many superstitions are specific to a culture so tell us about the superstition you’ve used in case it’s one we don’t know!

 

You can see what my lovely teamies made HERE - they are all so much cleverer than mine!

 

It's unlucky to put an umbrella up indoors, or so they say.  I'm not sure how you get it dry if you don't put it up over the bath, but there you go.

 

I decided to make a rocker card using an upturned umbrella

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I used a Tonic circle die to cut the Basic circle shape and then cut away the extra to leave the handle.  A part circle was cut to use for the umbrella, the curved sections were marked out and cut using a circle punch. Next I used a few Summery shades of ink to colour it.

The back was coloured with light blue ink and white die cut clouds added.  The green grassy stalks are a Spellbinders die and the butterflies are some pretty stickers a crafty friend popped into my birthday card last year - so it was good to use a few of them at last.

  I inked another piece of card and cut the umbrella handle, making it long enough to fold over the top and add some extra support as that part is rather narrow. Another piece was added to form the end of the handle and some ribbon to decorate it.  This was glued in place over the cut away section, then the umbrella section added over the top to conceal all the ends.

 

Thank you so much for coming by, please don't go without leaving a little message as I do love to know what you think.

 

 Happy Crafting, Stay Safe,