Hello My Friend

Well I'm trying to get back into a routine now that Greg is back in school even though Melanie won't start until September. I guess that is when I will really get back into my routine, which I miss and really like the structure of.
Here is a card that was made and scanned before I knew how to get the camera pictures onto the computer. Pictures look so much nicer than scans! To make this card I used a Coluzzle template by Stampendous to cut you the sleeve. Then the right side was stamped with a harlequin stamp by Hero Arts with wisteria ColorBox Chalk ink and green ribbon was glued down the border. On white paper the flower was stamped with permanent black ink and watercolored. The sentiment from Stampendous is stamped on light green paper with the top right corner torn and layered onto black paper. A flower sticker is in the corner.
It's almost midnight, I can't believe I'm still up, it's usually lights out at ten. Thanks for stopping by!

Glossy Paper Background

My son Greg starts Jr. High on Monday, wow hard to believe! Even though Melanie doesn't start school until September, I will now have time to stamp and get some new things posted while she is at water polo practice. It is amazing that I haven't stamped for a week, I think that is a record. This is a card I had made for a glossy paper card class. Here is what I did,
1. Using a page protector that is open on three sides, open it and place several drops of a lettuce re-inker and open and close the protector several times.
2. Place 2 quarter sheets of glossy paper back to back (so the glossy sides are facing out), inside the protector, close it, rub it and remove the paper. Now you have a great background!
3. Let the paper dry and stamp your image with black Stazon Ink, then color with markers.
4. This was layered onto plum and olive papers, glued to a kraft colored panel with the top corner torn and mounted to a plum card.
5. Stamp the sentiment at the bottom with black StazOn ink.
6. Apply square stickers to the right side.
Recipe
Stamps-Stampendous
Ink- lettuce Adirondack, black StazOn
Plus- stickers by Stampendous, markers

4th of July

Since the hubby is on vacation this week, I haven't had time to stamp so here are a couple of 4th of July cards I made awhile ago. I don't send out 4th of July cards but this chick by Stampendous is just so darn cute! The chick is colored with watercolor pencils, layered on a red panel and popped up. A red star sticker was placed in the center of the sparkler. The red and white is ribbon that was glued down and stamped on with blue StazOn ink.

This chick is stamped on a dome tag and layered onto red paper that I cut to fit, the ribbon at the top helps hide any imperfections!

I'll be back to stamping next week since this weeks schedule is full! Tomorrow we are going to see Wicked at the Pantages Theater in L.A. We are all looking forward to it, the hard part is figuring out how long it will take us to get there since some of the driving time will be during rush hour traffic!

Then on Friday the kids are spending the night at Grandma's house while we celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary, boy does the time fly by! Every year we go to Five Crowns restaurant in Corona Del Mar where we were engaged. The food is wonderful! The restaurant is an old English style with a dark interior, fireplace and high backed chairs. They also have a nice glass covered garden section that has a completely different feel. That reminds me, I better make sure my DH made reservations.

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Let's Play

Here is a card I made for a stamp class I had a few weeks a go. The class was ways to use vellum and I really like how this card turned out! Here is how to make it.
1. Stamp the dog on watercolor paper with VersaMark and emboss with alexandrite powder (Stampendous). Color using Twinkling H2O's, layer onto dark blue paper.
2. Stamp the "woof" tag onto dark blue paper, cut out and tie to dog panel with green jute. Set aside.
3. Stamp olive strip the bouncing ball with VersaMark ink and emboss with white powder. Glue to a light blue card that has been randomly stamped with a dog bone.
4. To cut the half circles, use a circle coluzzle and cut a half circle out of dark blue paper using the largest circle. Do the same with the vellum but use one size smaller circle.
5. Stamp the vellum half circle with white Brilliance using the foot print stamp from the set. Then layer it onto the blue circle and attach with green brads. Glue to the card.
6. Mount the dog image to the card using foam squares.
7. Stamp let's play on watercolor paper with VersaMark ink and emboss with alexandrite powder, cut out and glue to card as shown.

Well I'm off to take my daughter to waterpolo, then later today my son goes to Tae Kwon Do and I will make dinner sometime inbetween. Hope everything above makes sense, I don't have time to proof read! Have a great day.

A Day To Celebrate

This card is for Mercy's Tuesday sketch challenge. This is a long card so it was harder to photograph. I used Hero Arts stamps and stamped the round birthday wishes three times, once in stonewashed, cranberry and lettuce Adirondack inks. Then they were punched out and layered onto orange paper which is the back side of the polka dot paper. The circles are glued to a polka dot rectangle that is layered on goldenrod paper and glued to a card that measures 4 x 8 so it would fit into a legal sized envelope. Mercy requested different measurements but I couldn't remember what they were and didn't want to run upstairs and wait for the computer to turn on, sorry Mercy.
Now that I can take pictures and down load them onto the computer, my next project is to learn how to crop the pictures.... that might take awhile. Well now both of my kids are out of school, my son just until July and my daughter until September. I'm hoping to still find time to stamp :) Have a great weekend!

Happy Birthday Cupcake

Today I participated in a couple of challenges, Poetic Artistry has this really cute sketch challenge that I just loved and SCS has a color challenge that I wasn't thrilled with but I thought I would stretch myself. The colors are real red, regal rose and so saffron, my stamping friends know I really don't like pink and red together but I was happy with what I ended up with, what do you think? This card is mostly pink and saffron with just a touch of red. The background stamp is by Great Impressions and stamped with real red ColorBox chalk ink, the cupcake and sentiment are by Hero Arts and stamped with black VersaFine and the red circle stickers are by Stampendous. None of the papers I used are by SU, they are just similar in color.

Today I took my son and two of his friends to see Kung Fu Panda, the boys LOVED it! And to make it even better, I loved it too. So if you are looking for a movie to see, we highly recommend this one.

My Man

This is a quick and easy card to make, my favorite kind! It is called a two way fold card and the dimensions can be found here. I used papers by Bo Bunny, they are patterned on both sides. The word stamp is by Great Impressions and the alphabet stickers are by Stampendous.

Here is how it looks after you untie the card.

And this is with the card lifted up. I have left it blank so I can write something sweet to my husband :)

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