Twinkling Tuesday!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Yay! Monday's over and I'm three days closer to my first Friday off for the new year! :D

I work an extra hour most days for two week so I can accumulate enough hours to have every other Friday off . Usually I use it to run errands and do things that are normally hard to do with a 3 year old hanging off me....like shop! Towards the end of last year I worked on a few of my 'Friday's off' so I could accumulate extra hours for some paid time off after Christmas, so this is my first day off in a while. And boy, am I going to enjoy it! :D

I wanted to thank you for all the WONDERFUL comments you all left for me yesterday. Every one of them made me smile. I feel like that card was one of my best ones yet, so it means a lot to me that you all appreciated it too and I just wanted to say thank you!

Ok, so today is Twinkling Tuesday again and Madelynn has another fun sketch for us to play with! For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, here's an update: Madelynn is the talented 8 year old daughter of Jessica Diedrich (AKA The Whimsical Butterfly) and she creates weekly sketches for her Twinkies (DT) and everyone is invited to play along!

When uploading your cards to SCS or PCP please use the keyword MTTSC5 so we can all find your creations and leave some love!


I decided to get out my Dandelion stamp by Hero Arts and play around with the embossing resist technique. I inked up the dandelion with Versamark ink then stamped it out on the cream cardstock. Then I applied Seafoam embossing powder, which is more of a cream color, and heat set the image. Then I got out my ever faithful Distress Inks and sponged over the image first with Antique Linen. I started in the middle of the image and applied the ink in circular motions (wax on, wax off kinda thing). Then I switched to the Tea Dye ink and again started in the center of the image and worked my way out until I was happy with the depth of color.

One of my favorite embellishments, besides ribbon, are the pearls from Kaiser Scrapbook. There are 50 pearls in the package and they range in size from 2.5mm to 6mm. They're self adhesive and they come in a ton of colors! If you haven't tried them yet, you NEED to go and get yourself some. I'm not enabling, merely suggesting a GREAT idea....hahahhaha!

You need to check out the rest of the Twinkies blogs to see their amazing cards this week! The list is, as always, in the left hand bar. Rebecca Ednie has some BLOG CANDY this week, so leave your comments and links to your cards on her BLOG this week, ok?


Toodles!

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts 'Dandelion G4917', MFT 'Essential Sentiments'
Inks: Versamark, Distress Inks 'Antique Linen, Tea Dye and Vintage Paper'
Paper: Bazzil cs, PP - 'My Mind's Eye - Tres Jolie Collection - Baby (Girl) Floral'
Access: Ribbon, Kaiser Pearls 'Blush', Seafoam White ep, dimensionals

Season's Greetings!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Forgive me if it seems I haven't shown you all a lot of Christmas cards this year. It's because I don't own that many. Infact I think I can count all my Christmas stamps on one hand! I was a little surprised myself, but then I had to remind myself that I only got serious about stamping and making cards back in March of this year and this is my first Christmas stamping, let alone blogging! Through SCS and blogger, I have had my eyes opened to the many wonderful Christmas stamp sets and projects that can be created for the holiday season. Aren't there some amazing and talented people out there?! I hope to be a bit better prepared next holiday season.

I do have a couple of Christmas cards to show you this week though. This particular one uses a stamp I found at Michaels. It's by Hero Arts and it reminded me of the Collage Garden stamp set put out by Stamping Up a few years ago. I bought that set on the BST (Buy, Sell, Trade) forum on SCS earlier in the year because I was so drawn to the style.

I first stamped the image with Staz On 'Timber Brown' onto watercolor paper, then sponged over the image with Distress Inks 'Antique Linen'. Then I ran the edge distresser around the edges of the image and sponged them with the Tea Dye ink. I used True Thyme to color in the leaves, and Cranberry Crisp for the berries. The snow in the little picture was colored using Soft Sky. I stamped out a duplicate of the image, cut it out, covered it in Versamark ink then kaliedescope ep and heat set it. The I popped it on dimensionals for some depth. Then as a final touch, I added stickles to the snowflakes and around the edges of the cardstock for some added sparkle. That oh so yummy ribbon came from my good friend Kelly in Florida. She was my secret santa this year and this ribbon was in the lunch pail she made me. (I'll post a picture of it tomorrow for you.) This card is on it's way to my crazy friend in Canada.

Did everyone survive the weekend? We got nailed with two snowstorms. The first one came Friday afternoon and left 6 -8 inches and flurried all Saturday. It didn't let up yesterday and I think we got 12 inches! Hopefully there isn't any more of the white stuff in the forecast before Christmas!

Only three more sleeps until Christmas!

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts 'Collage Season's Greetings K4827'

Inks: True Thyme, Soft Sky, Cranberry Crisp, Distress Inks 'Antique Linen, Tea Dye', versamark

Paper: Canson Watercolor, Bazzil cs, PP - Basic Grey 'Aged and Confused Collection - Vintage Floral'

Access: Ribbon, Stickles, dimensionals, Zig pen, Kaliedescope ep, Tim Holtz edge distresser