I was working on cards last week for a home show and wanted to use the Sweet Stems set. I also wanted to use some glitter on the petals. Well I tried this several times with Stickles and crystal effects and glitter and needless to say I knew it would be too hard to do in a workshop setting. So after all was said and done I had 3 of the images with glitter in…
The sun is out again today! It is so nice to see the sun after a week of rainy cloudy days. I was checking out my bulbs that were coming up and noticed something ate my bulb shoots around my lamppost. It is probably deer. I have been looking for ways to deter them. Anybody have any ways that have been successful for them? Okay, on to today’s card. I read a “Be Inspired” challenge…
I was reading my blogs and noticed Stamp TV/ had a color and sketch challenge this week. I decided to combine the 2 challenges into this card. The color challenge this week was Barely Banana, Blush Blossom, and Certainly Celery. These are great colors but very pale. As I was thinking about what to do I saw the sketch challenge and knew they would work. The sketch is very simple so I could easily use…
Sorry I did not have a post for you today. I was busy working on my taxes. I have been putting it off forever and decided today they had to be worked on. I am happy to say I got them finished and filed. Now I can go back to creating and having fun. I did receive and award several weeks ago that I forgot to post. Tania sent me this award and I was…
I got some new unmounted stamps the other day. I like the Whipper Snapper stamps as they have some cute animal stamps. I had originally wanted to use another image I got but when I went to stamp it I realized I did not have an acrylic block big enough for it. I will be looking for one of those as the stamp is a cute Easter one. I decided to use this image instead.…
I had another idea with the rose from Fifth Avenue Floral. I thought it would be interesting to see what it would look like if I embossed it in gold and did the layer like I did on my other one. I began by stamping several roses with Versamark Ink and embossing with gold embossing powder. I the cut the roses out in various layers. Before I assembled the roses I used a sponge dauber…
