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Happy first Monday in August to you. It's a holiday here, and with Monday being on the 7th, it's as late in the month as it can be (always the first Monday in August is a holiday here).
I thought I would bring your attention to a tutorial that featured in the Inkling a while back, and which I have enjoyed playing with - Misted Marker Vellum.
Yes, you do need vellum.
But, if you don't have printed vellum as in the tutorial, you can always use plain or you can stamp your own design with a permanent ink like StazOn. Just remember to stick the side you stamped to the white card, so that when you add the markers and mist, you don't end up smudging it. My snowflake sample uses a piece of plain vellum which was stamped with a background stamp using Ranger's Archival Black.
If you don't have any alcohol-based markers (I only have a small set of Sharpies), you could just you a few drops of alcohol inks in a couple of colours. * My top tip is not to over-mist your markers. I did that the first time and ended up with very faded colours. The piece was still usable, but not as pretty as the samples in the tutorial. Mist with some isopropyl/rubbing alcohol and either use a heat gun to blow it around a little or tip and tilt the piece of card.
Here's the tutorial: Misted Marker Vellum Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers
(Please remember to upload your card to the Technique Spotlight gallery, to build a library of inspiration. Choose Technique Spotlight from the first drop-down menu and Misted Marker Vellum from the second)
Here's a link to our TLC963 Misted Marker Vellum gallery
Remember to use the keyword TLC963 when you are uploading. It's helpful if you come back and leave a link on this thread, especially in case you made a typo and people may not find your card.
If you're not sure how to link your card on the thread here, here's how:
1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one window for your card 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.
The August Bank Holiday in Ireland falls on the first Monday of August and is intended to provide a three-day weekend break for students and workers so they can enjoy the summer weather before the onset of autumn.
Exactly. We don't, apart from St Patrick's Day, have holidays that equate to your holidays like Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, etc. We have several Bank Holiday weekends in addition to New Year's Day, Christmas Day, Boxing/St Stephen's Day, Easter Monday: the first Monday in May, in June, in August, the last Monday in October, and this year as a post-pandemic introduction we had St Brigid's Day. That's the 1st of February, but the holiday will be celebrated on the first Monday of the month unless it falls on a Friday, in which case it will be celebrated on the Friday.
Good Friday is an anomaly. It's not an official public holiday and there is no entitlement to a paid holiday although some businesses close that day.
The name comes from UK legislation in the nineteenth century relating to the existing four statutory days the banks closed.
We here in Canada also have a holiday weekend. It's called a Civic holiday and while it is not a national holiday, most provinces do celebrate it, all be it by another name. In Ontario it is called Simcoe Day, in recognition of John Graves Simcoe, who was the first Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and a leading proponent of the anti slavery law.
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