Gradient Fun

So I meant to do a few posts when I was out on vacation but that went by the wayside in terms of priorities! Sorry guys! :) But the hubs and I had a lovely vacation to see some pretty leaves. Now its back to the daily grind -- what fun!

Cath challenged everyone to use gradients in this moxie fab challenge. I remember those fun gradient rainbow stamp pads that my piano teacher would use -- when we did a good job on a song, she'd stamp my music with a fun stamp. I loved getting stamps in my music book! This also works for the TSG23 challenge of using mono-chromatic colors. :)

So I decided to create a fun look based on those gradient pads I used to know and love. I cut 1 inch strips of different red shades of cardstock. I then adhered them to my card. I also stamped the butterfly in versamark and then embossed it. Love the way embossing just adds to the color.

For the sentiment, I decided I wanted it to cut through the entire gradient (rather than just part of it) so I masked the stamp and stamped happy twice before stamping the final happy birthday. The gem is a nice color that matched the ink (but its not showing up well in this pic... sigh)


Stamps: Verve, (Birthday Basics) PTI
Paper: (Scarlet Jewel, Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, White) PTI
Ink: Versamark, Raspberry Fizz (PTI)
Accessories: (Clear Embossing Powder) Ranger, (Gems) Hero Arts

Love You

Happy Friday! :) I'm going home today! Yaaaaaaay! I cannot tell you how excited I am to be home soon.

I wasn't sure I was going to share this card. I don't know how I feel about it. But alas, my other cards I forgot to upload (and I'm in our Northern neighbor) so you're going to get this one.

I took the large blanket stamp from Half Baked from Waltzingmouse Stamps.I thought it might make a good stamp in general as a background image of sorts.

I stamped the image three times and then used my labels 1 nestabilities to cut them out. I was originally going to use squares but let's not go there... Tied a big fat ribbon and then stamped the Love You from Earth Angel. Added some pearls and a few lines with my glitter pen.

Waltzingmouse Stamps!!!

I've been holding this in for awhile... feels good to let the cat out of the bag! :) Claire's introducing her new DT today and little me managed to make the list with some major stamping all-stars! :) I love all the fun stamps that she's put out so far and I can't wait to see what else she has up her sleeve!


Be sure to stop by the new Waltzingmouse Stamps new store front to check out the new releases too! Claire has some great sets!! Can't wait to get mine!

I'm going to be sharing some fun creations this week in celebration! :) I had more to share but I forgot to upload some of the pics before I left home for my business trip so we'll scatter them throughout the month!

I figured I'd show a card with Earth Angel first. I really wanted to do something fun with the girl image and the hearts. So I figured it might be fun to attach the hearts to some twine and make her appear as if she's almost swinging into air.

I stamped the hearts onto some red paper and then cut them out oh so carefully. I was originally going to do 5 but after cutting 3 out, I figured 3 was perfect! I wrapped the twine on the edge and left one long tail when I trimmed it. And of course, I had to add some scoring with my Scor-pal! :)


Be sure to stop by the rest of the Waltzingmouse Stamps design team for some fun samples! Can I say that I'm so humbled to be in such company! :D
Julia Aston
Laurie Schmidlin
Anya Schrier
Bonnie Sharp


Stamps: (Earth Angel) Waltzingmouse Stamps
Paper: (Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Spring Rain, Pure Poppy) PTI, (Early Bird) Cosmo Cricket
Ink: (Dark Chocolate) PTI
Accessories: Twine, Scor-Pal

What's for Dinner

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I'm back in the friendly neighbor up north. :) Assuming that I didn't get stuck in customs or anything. Hah.

Just a quicky card today. I'm all about quick. The only thing I really did was pierce the holes in the scallop. I feel like it gives it a little something. Otherwise, the card just is some fun papers and chipboard. :)

I love the sentiment and the lady. Man, sometimes I wish I could ask the 'What's for dinner' question again. Alas... ;-)

Honeymoon Album

Almost Friday!! :) Yaay! There's just something about Fridays that makes me so happy.

I'm heading home today and it's also the end of the G20 summit... hopefully I'll actually be able to get home... We'll see!

So I'm not really much of a scrapper. I think I don't have the attention span -- heh. But I do love preserving our memories and mini albums are so much fun! :) I had picked up a bunch of acrylic albums before I left NC and I thought it'd make a great honeymoon album.

For the cover I used just one piece of paper -- and then added some hand cut embellishments from the paper pack as well. Added thickers...while I LOVE the vinyl thickers, they never sticker well for me. SIgh... I'll add some glue underneath later.

The paper is from SEI and I used the line for the entire album. Keeps it easy to look good, especially for an acrylic album where you do see through the pages.

I'm not going to show the entire album since it's kinda boring to see photos of me so I kinda randomly selected a page for you.

Some pages I stamped on the acrylic. Other ones have some rubons (used Amy Butler's Lotus line).

Since I didn't have any more rings, I actually used some ribbon to tie everything together. Worked really well!

SSS22

Happy Hump Day everyone!

This card is for the Sweet Stop Sketch 22. There's a fun prize (the recent SNSS release) for someone who plays along! So go check it out! Since it's a 'prize' sketch, there was also a spin -- use red, black and tan. I subbed the tan for more of a cream... I'll call it light tan. Hah.

I used Waddle I Do? for this sketch. And as usual, I butchered it a little. Eh, welcome to my world. Don't ban me from all challenges! ;-)

I love little Stanley. He's so cute isn't he? :) I even hand doodled a little iceberg for him to "rest" on. I used vellum and then covered it in some clear glitter. Hard to see in the photo. I love vellum and I don't pull it out enough.


Stamps: Waddle I Do (Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps)
Paper: Bazzill, Early Bird (Cosmo Cricket), Vellum (Archivers)
Ink: Noir (Stewart Superior)
Accessories: Nestabilities - Large Oval and Labels 4, Ribbon

Grateful for you

At this point I should be settled into the friendly neighbor we have up north. :) Ah, Canada! Sometimes I wonder why I don't negotiate time for a trip to the local stampy stores. If only I didn't have to come back over the weekend to make sure the hubby isn't starving...

We went to the grocery store over the weekend and he picked up some frozen pizzas and spaghettio-s... things that would NEVER make it into the house if I weren't leaving for so long. I glared until he reminded me how long I'd be out. I have some squash and chicken in the fridge for him... but somehow princess shaped spaghetti in a can >> squash. Hmm... I don't get it. Oh well.

Anyways, here's a fun bright card for you. I have SOOO much raspberry fizz that I feel obligated to keep using it. In fact, secretly a lot of my card bases are with fizz... I like to call it a fun little surprise. Hah.


Stamps: PTI
Cardstock: PTI
Ink: PTI
Accessories: Embossing Powder: Ranger Industries, Border Punch: Fiskars, Buttons: Making Memories. Floss: DMC