Hand Stamped Sentiments – Hello

Hello Stampers!

Ok, I have got to tell you a story.  My faucet in my bathroom has been dripping for a while.  I have the replacement pieces but just never fixed it.  I think some of it was I was afraid I would mess it up.  I live alone and often have to do things myself or pay someone to do it. Well last night it was running slowly so I knew I had to fix it.  I started taking the faucet apart.  I had all the pieces off but still needed to take off the stem.  I was just getting ready to take it off when all of a sudden it blew off and water was gushing out.  I quickly reached under the sink and turned off the water – something I did not know had to be done before you took the handle apart.  I managed to get the entire stem off and the spring and stopper had been pushed out so I had no clue how they went in.  I came out and opened up You Tube and found a video on how to do it.  I went back in and got the pieces put in, the stem put back in and the bolt back on.  I went to put the handle on and it would not fit on correctly.  I had put the stem in wrong.  I had to take it all apart and fix the stem.  Once I did that I was able to get the handle on.  I turned the water on and I had no drips and I had water from the faucet.  Now I needed to do the other faucet.  I was able to do the second one but again I had the stem in wrong and the handle would not fit on.  So I had to take it apart and redo the stem.  I finally got it all put together and turned on the water.  Both faucets worked and there were no drips.  Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I did it all by myself.  I felt so proud.

Ok today is day 7 of the Color Challenge.

Today I decided to try a tutorial for making a background using our Blendabilities.  It was interested and not hard but I am not sure I like the finished product when I looked at them.  I used the lightest markers first and here are the results I got.

I decided to do it again but use the middle color marker.  Here is what it looked like.

I used a purple, yellow, and green marker.  To me the yellow seems to be too dominant.  While thinking about this and composing my post, a few ideas came to me so I will play with it and see what I can come up with.

Ok, on to my card for today.  Our challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments is a color challenge.

I decided to use these colors with my Prismacolor pencils for one of the 30 Day Color Challenge.  I stamped the images and used the pencils to color it in.  I then used my Gamsol to blend the colors.   After I had my images colored I needed to add something to the empty spaces.  I decided to add one of the word framelits.  Here is my card for the color challenge.

inside of card and envelope

We would love to have you visit us and check out all our creations at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  We would then love it if you would play along with us for this color challenge.

Thanks for visiting me today.  I hope you give our color challenge a try.  Have a Terrific Tuesday!

Robbie