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this card was made while under the influence of a massive migraine and english muffins with melted butter (not that those two things are actually related to each other) and took about 90 minutes from start to finish; but, that includes the randomized destressing techniques that i prefer which involve the use of various inks -Jim Holtz- (about three of them) scratching, crumpling, reapplication of ink layers, very old gum arabic (over 10 years old) reconstituted) and stressed even further using the microwave twice for ten seconds (any longer can result in something almost but not quite unlike smoldering popcorn set at the highest setting then forgotten about for half an hour...(not good unless you like carbonated collage or popcorn (hard to tell at that stage) the card itself is not coated, the postal cancel from an old Elle magazine i think, (no clue as to the exact date) the thin brown tissue paper (might be hard to spot) came from a bakery (when i saw this paper and noticed how well the texture would work with the things that i do, gears in my head began to turn and i grabbed several sheets of it) and the tiny figures came from an old calendar depicting historic old world maps. the choice of the name should be obvious... can't really be sure the headache (or stress) did not alter my preception to the point of actually seeing these men running around on the desk in front of me; then again it might have been the muffin after all...

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this card was made while under the influence of a massive migraine and english muffins with melted butter (not that those two things are actually related to each other) and took about 90 minutes from start to finish; but, that includes the randomized destressing techniques that i prefer which involve the use of various inks -Jim Holtz- (about three of them) scratching, crumpling, reapplication of ink layers, very old gum arabic (over 10 years old) reconstituted) and stressed even further using the microwave twice for ten seconds (any longer can result in something almost but not quite unlike smoldering popcorn set at the highest setting then forgotten about for half an hour...(not good unless you like carbonated collage or popcorn (hard to tell at that stage) the card itself is not coated, the postal cancel from an old Elle magazine i think, (no clue as to the exact date) the thin brown tissue paper (might be hard to spot) came from a bakery (when i saw this paper and noticed how well the texture would work with the things that i do, gears in my head began to turn and i grabbed several sheets of it) and the tiny figures came from an old calendar depicting historic old world maps. the choice of the name should be obvious... can't really be sure the headache (or stress) did not alter my preception to the point of actually seeing these men running around on the desk in front of me; then again it might have been the muffin after all...