Shimmer Paint

It's all the rage have you heard? The new shimmer paint from SU. I ordered some on the advice of a friend and have been having a great time playing with it. It adds a new level of sparkle and well, shimmer, to all your holiday and everyday projects. I used the silver shimmer paint over both the Night of Navy and Suede paper from SU to create the backgrounds on these cards. The stamp set is by Inkie Dinky Doo. The snowflake border was created with a Martha Stewart punch.

Enjoy! Happy Stamping!

I think this might be my backup favorite....

This is the last card I made using the Serenity Now set for my friend's birthday present. It turned out much better than I thought, considering I almost never use these colors...so not the earth color girl. This is another one, where I found the green patterned paper (source unkown) in my stash and thought...I can make this work for a different look. I also used the little green ring from my stash. I had picked these up at Joann quite a while back and wasn't sure how I was going to work them into a project...but my thought was originally scrapbook pages...I liked the center of the flower idea. I think it came out nicely. I also like the embossing line I created from my rectangular nestabilities. We are off to finish out our birthday celebrations for the DH's birthday. Hope you have a happy Sunday and can get in some stamping.

Happy Stamping!

Recipe:

Stamps: Serenity Now (MFT Stamps)

Paper: Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White (SU) and Patterned Paper (Source Unknown)

Ink: Pallette Noir Black, Fresh Snow (PTI), Copic Markers E09 & E27 Pants, Y000 & G93 Mat, E00 Skin, YG63 Shirt

Acessories: Nestabilities Rectangles, Prima Flower, Small Frame (Joann)

Second to last....

Sorry I am posting a little late today. I have spent the majority of my day at birthday parties for kids and Lowe's shopping for table saws. Don't all get jealous at once. Needless to say...that errand is done and now, we have to gather some burly guys to get the enormous thing out of my truck. Uggh!

So, back to our card. There is only one more to go after this one. Are you loving this set or sick of the series? I hope you are enjoying them. There were fun to make, but definitely a challenge to make them look differently and only use on stamp set. =) This one came about because I foudn this purple and green scrap of paper in my paper scrap stash and it looked like lilacs to me. My favorite flower for spring. Maybe even my favorite all time...hard to say...there are so many great flowers. =) Tomorrow will be the grand finale. The final Namaste card I made and the final I will show you. Until then, Happy Saturday and Happy Stamping!


Recipe:
Stamps: Serenity Now (MFT Stamps)
Paper: Whisper White, Mellow Moss, Pale Plum (SU) and unknown Patterned Paper
Ink: Pallette Noir Black (PTI), Mellow Moss
Accessories: Moss Wide Organdy (SU Retired), Giga Rectangle Scalloped Punch (Marvy Uchida)

A Sad Goodbye....

Today is a sad day if you are from Colorado (at least if you've been here for awhile). A piece of our heritage has disappeared into the sunset today as one of our newspapers folded. What does that mean, you might be asking yourself? Why is that significant? I believe it is important not only to us as Coloradans, but it should be an important wake up call to everyone in the world. It marks a turning point in our future. It leaves me wondering about the future of our newspapers in our world. It is so easy to log on and get your news or watch the news on television, but the real objective news is only found in print. The in depth coverage of our daily lives, can only be found in the newspaper. It remains one of the tangible pieces of our history that is left in our very electronic world. If this trend continues for the newspaper industry, where does that leave us? If we sit by and watch newspapers become a part of our past, do we risk the ability to have objective news? Further than that, are we risking the ability to form an opinion based on facts? The Rocky Mountain News is one of many newspapers across our country threatened by extinction. Todays paper listed at least a dozen across the U.S. The Rocky Mountain News lost their fight today. A monument for nearly 150 years in Colorado is now gone. It breaks my heart a little. My grandfather worked for the News for nearly his entire life. Our family, our neighbors and our friends all read the News. Growing up it was a staple on our breakfast table. I continued that tradition in my own family. I am not sure why I was compelled to share this with all of you, but I thought it was important to pay tribute to this newspaper and the people who worked so hard for so long to make sure all of us had the news. To pay some respect to those who put their heart and soul into this paper. Thanks for reading, more stamping talk will be here tomorrow. If you would like to read more about the Rocky Mountain News or see the last issue, click here.

Did you know....

...that pink is my favorite color...hence this is my favorite card in this series. I think this was a natural occurence due to all the testosterone that flows freely in my house. I need something girlie to counteract it...pink seemed the simple solution. Not that my whole house is pink or anything, I just have pink here and there in accessories and such. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.

Sometimes things just come together perfectly, that was the case with this card. I also love this silver hardware from SU. I originally bought it to share with my mom, but have since decided, I may have to save my pennies to get my own set....it is by far my favorite. I am going to try something a little different with this post, in hopes that I will hear from you all out there. I am going to post the recipe at the end of the post instead of within. If you will leave a comment letting me know which you prefer, that would be swell. Well, off to volunteer at one school today. Hope you are enjoying your day...thanks for stopping in.

Happy Stamping.

Recipe:
Stamps: Serenity Now (My Favorite Things)
Paper: Regal Rose, Whisper White and Bella Rose DSP (All SU)
Ink: Black Pallette Noir (PTI), Regal Rose (SU)
Markers: Copic Sketch RV20 (Shirt), E00 (Skin)
Accessories: Silver Hardware (SU), Ribbon from Hobby Lobby

More Namaste....

Hello there! Happy Hump Day and Ash Wednesday! I dont' know how many of you participate in lent...but I will just let you know...I am terrible at it. I am not really a practicing catholic, but for some reason every year I am compelled to participate in lent...go figure. So, I have already blew lent twice today...I think it's my momnesia...I totally spaced that beef jerky was meat...I know....ridiculous. I really did have a mind before kids...however, that seems like a long time ago. =) Other than the whole forgetting lent thing...it really is a beautiful day here in Colorado. The temps have been in the high sixties and low seventies the last couple of days. It's hard to stay inside. I stopped at Hobby Lobby to get some paint for a lamp that I am refinishing for my eldest son's room and stumbled upon the perfect fabric for quilts for the twins rooms. They love all animals (especially zoo animals) but I have been having a hard time finding "mature" animal fabric. Well, today was my lucky day....they just got in a whole line at H.L. So, I bought what I needed, after much deliberation about sizes and patterns and such at the cutting table, and I am going to attempt to get them going here in the next day or two. Maybe I will post some pictures as they come along. (I know Mom...what you are probably thinking....another project?)

Enough of my life story.....let's talk some stamping. This is another card in the namaste series that I made for my friend's birthday. The card base on this one is Bashful Blue. I stamped the background using PTI Ocean Tides because it is just about a shade darker than Bashful Blue. The image is also PTI - Guide Lines, I haven't gotten to use this set much, but after using it here...I can tell it is a keeper. So many fun combinations. =) The white strip is whisper white. The green oval was cut using my nestabilities scalloped oval on sage shadow paper. The image is stamped on whisper white with pallet noir black and colored with copic markers (I forgot to write down the colors - sorry - working on this for the future.) It was again punched out with the Marvy Uchida giga scalloped rectangular punch. The saying in the corner is stamped in Ocean Tides on Whisper White and punched out with SU small oval punch. I colored the edge by running it along the ink pad. The ribbon is SU blue taffeta. Thanks for checking in.

Happy Stamping!

Hello again...

Sorry for the hiatus...I was sick, then the kids were sick and you know how that goes. Staying upright is a challenge on those days...let alone stamping and posting. Anyway, I'm back. I have been doing a series (prior to my Valentine posts)of namaste cards. I have finally finished them and will post the rest this week. I am getting ready to stick them in the mail this week with coordinating envelopes as a gift to a friend. She isn't a stamper, but I still think she will really like them. So, let's talk some stampin'. =)

This card again uses the Serenity Now set from MFT stamps. I stamped the image in pallete noir black on whisper white paper and then colored the image with the following copic colors - pants V01 and BV00, shirt Y19, Mat C1 and Skin E00. The base of the card is barely banana. Sort of a different color combination, but I think it works. What do you think? =) The image was then punched out using the Marvy Uchida Giga Scalloped rectangle punch. I mounted that on a piece of pale plum that I had embossed with my nestabilities and then layered that on summer sun, also cut with a nestabilities die. The pale plum piece was cut and embossed with a nestability die. The ribbon is PTI Lavender Moon satin ribbon. The saying is stamped in Lavender Moon as well. My favorite part of this card was using up little pieces of this and that which were laying around my stamp space and making them work into the card. I love when that happens. I hope you all enjoy my creation too. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping!