Thank you to a friend......

We have an absolutely wonderful friend who has been driving our daughter, Holly, to school, where she is a volunteer with the Grade One and Two class. Our friend is also an Educational Assistant at the same school. She lives right down the road and picks up Holly every Wednesday morning and listens to her chatter away (and she does like to chatter.....!) all the way to school.

I made her a project that is now in the Dirty Dozen gallery, so you can't see it unless you are a fan club member (sorry), but I still needed a card. So here is my......uhm.........her card.

This is an image from Crafty Secrets Birds and Botanicals journal pad and I love the treatment that I gave it.

I cut out the image with my freakishly old pinking scissors. ....you know the ones that everybody bought when they first start out?!! They don't really work all that great and so I had to go along behind them and trim with REAL scissors.....but I like the look so I put up with it......

I took my brayer and loaded it with Champagne Dazzle Versamark and then rolled it over the whole image. I sprinkled on my clear embossing powder and heat embossed it! It turned out so beautiful and that Dazzle Versamark leaves such a subtle but sparkly look!

You can kind of see the sparkles in this close up photo. The little spots on the robin's wing are sparkles and shimmers in real life! So pretty!




The sketch is from yesterday's sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers, which some may say I followed or didn't! I substituted the panel in the middle of the sketch, for some scoring with the Scor-pal....works for me!!

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Star Prints set - LOVE that font!!

Yikes, today is my daughter Marcie's birthday and I don't have a card done yet. Something like the plumber whose pipes never get fixed, or the carpenter whose house is falling down around him, or the farmer who doesn't have a garden......oops hitting close to home!! I better get that card done ........ I hope you have a wonderful day!


Stamps: Star Prints (Papertrey Ink)
Paper: Melon Berry, Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento)
Accessories: Birds and Botanicals Journal Pad (Crafty Secrets); Petite Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Melon Berry ribbon, Melon Berry button, (Papertrey Ink); Versamark Dazzle, silly pinking shears, twine (Walmart)

The Dirty Gallery is Open!!

It's the 15th of the month and that means the Dirty Dozen gallery is open at Splitcoaststampers and our two new Dirty Girls for July have been revealed!!

Congratulations to Jami Bova aka sgtStamper, and Julie Warner aka justwritedesigns!!!

I am not too familiar with Julie or her work, but I certainly know Jami and I couldn't be more excited for her! and I LOVE her new picture!!

You just HAVE to sign up for the fan club just so you can see the gorgeous work these girls have done this month!! Unbelievable!!





Well, here is my sneak peak for July! I love the Tropical theme!!

Today is the Day!

YAY!!

TODAY is the day that Little Paper Shop's TWO new adorable stamp sets, {Angelic Jena} and {Beary Best Katie} are available!! AND doubly fun!! ....as a special treat to our wonderful customers, they are on sale NOW through Monday (the 20th) for 10% off at Little Paper Shop while supplies last!

Can you believe it?!!!

Today, we would love for you to stop by the LPS Blog, because it is time for our Monthly Design Team challenge. The lovely Julie Lacey has issued us our challenge this month-to use Kraft, Pink, and Green on in our creations AND incorporate punches! Fun fun!!


Of course I am going to use my Basic Grey Lemonade papers - full of colour and this particular sheet has pink and green in it!

I used {Forest Critters} stamp set for those sweet trees and {Make a Wish} birthday set for the sentiment.

I sparkled up the trees with those fabulous little Zva Round Crystals! They are pretty teeny but a breeze to use! With a little dab of glue from your glue pen and your fingernail they just slip right on! I actually licked my fingertip so they would stick to my finger until I placed them on the glue! Easy and so pretty!

The particular punch I used is the Fiskar's Apron Lace punch and I see that Rachel is out of this particular one but there are a lot more punches to see at the store, including pre-ordering of the new Martha Stewart punches ! Wahoo!!

I also added a bit of my white gelly roll pen to add some faux stitches around the edges. I do have an Inkssentials white pen that I absolutely LOVE and use it all the time, however, due to a happening sort of beyond my control , the INkssentials white pen is temporarily unavailable......something about a messy desk......mutter.....mutter.....;)

Previewing Beary Best Katie and a challenge!

Little Paper Shop's second set being released this month is called Beary Best Katie!

You have TWO chances to win this set!

1) by leaving a comment on the Little Paper Shop blog and;
2) by playing along with our sketch challenge (please leave keyword LPSC24 if uploading to your favorite gallery and then come back to the LPS blog and leave your link!)

You have until the 20th to enter your sketch on the Little Paper Shop blog!





Our sketch was so cute and I basically followed it to a tee. I paper pieced Katie's dress with designer paper and coloured the rest with copics . The paper I used is that yummy Basic Grey Lemonade! I can't get enough of it so you will probably see it in some upcoming posts!!

Don't forget to take a boo on the other designers blogs to see how they featured this little cutie pie!!