Frugal Stamper

Today's WT challenge was to be frugal and find things that help us save. I think Julia was talking about embellishments, but I tried my best for my entire card.

Items I didn't buy:
Ribbon - it was given to me by my boss. She knows I make cards and apparently she's been saving ribbon for me.
Felt Flower - it was part of my reveal gift for the VSN Secret Sisters last August. It's one of the things I dug up when I was cleaning the Dungeon on Sunday.
Damask background - I won a contest on the Flourishes forum on SCS a while back. I don't think it's what I asked for, but I use it A LOT.
Dimensionals - part of a package from a CCRAKer.

Imogen the Fairy is stamped in Palette Noir on PTI Cream. She's colored in with Copics (very carefully, I had bleeding of both the markers and the ink.) The background is another piece of Cream, embossed in clear and sponged with Pure Poppy ink and Fired Brick Distress ink.

**NOTE: As you can tell, Palette inks (Pure Poppy is one) stick to embossing powder. This was a bad move on my part and this isn't what I wanted the background to look like.**

Stamps: Stamping Bella - Imogen the Fairy; Flourishes - Damask. Paper: Real Red, PTI Cream. Ink: Versamark, Palette Noir, Pure Poppy, Fired Brick DI. Accessories: Copics, clear ep, dimensionals, ribbon, felt flower.

It's pouring outside. I'm hoping that we're not about to wash away.

Wishing everyone a dry few days.

A Card, Picture, and Post all in the same day

and it's a SCS CHALLENGE! My schedule is turned around today because I went to a Non-Violent Crisis Prevention program put on by the ISD all day. Very interesting and I now know how to restrain kids properly if necessary.

But since it was an 8-4 deal, I don't have to work until 6 like normal, so I got to play earlier. :)

Ahhh... the things we do for art. I'm not talking about the program I was at, I'm talking about the fact that I am covered in glitter. Courtesy of the Technique Lover's Challenge on Splitcoast - Glittered Backgrounds.

The heat and stick powder didn't really stick well to my background - which means I got a sketchy Damask in Smoked Quartz glitter a la Martha Stewart. It looks quite rustic though.

My main image is stamped in Chocolate Chip and Creamy Caramel ink.

Stamps: Flourishes - Damask, SU - Like it a Latte. Paper: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla. Ink: Versamark, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel. Accessories: heat and stick powder, Martha Stewart glitter, ribbon, dimensionals.

Yay for a day of no rain and an email that my Papertrey package has shipped though it doesn't contain any of the new releases,

It's time to show some cards

I need to get myself back in the mindset of make a card, take a picture and upload it all in the same day. I need to do a KETCHUP post.

Not long after I did my last post, I was printing someting out and the paper jammed. Not a problem, except I'm working in tight quarters and all the cards I make wind up sitting in a pretty Ikea planter/tin on top of my printer (and more recently, take over my desk in general.) Everything had to be moved.


As you can see from the picture, I had a lot of cards. All the cards that are in the white box weren't in the tin, they were piled precariously on my desk - the threat of avalanche was constant. I'm slowly RAKing the cards - I sent out 11 cards this morning.

Something I wanted to try last week when it was a TLC challenge was making a suspension card. They're super easy and lots of fun.


Stamps: Papertrey - It's a Celebration. Paper: Aqua Mist, Purely Pomegranate, Select White, My Mind's Eye dp. Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Aqua Mist. Accessories: thread, cuttlebug, classic oval Nestabilities, dimensionals, adhesive pearls.

Carole's color challenge last Tuesday was really pretty: Groovy Guava, Barely Banana and Chocolate Chip. I'm not sure I really like how my card turned out, but it's a great color combo.


Stamps: MFT - Boho Blossoms. Paper: Groovy Guava, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White. Ink: Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava, Barely Banana. Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, halfback pearls.

I haven't done a Saturday Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoast in forever - almost a year. (I did the math.) The challenge was to be inspired by some wedding cakes - and there was a beautiful aqua cake with branches wrapped around it. The branches reminded me of SU's Embrace Life, so I went from there.


Stamps: SU - Embrace Life, Papertrey - Piece of Cake. Paper: Aqua Mist, Spring Moss, Select White. Ink: Burnt Umber Palette, Aqua Mist, Spring Moss. Accessories: ribbon, slit punch, dimensionals, Sakura pen, aquapainter.

And this brings us to today's TLC challenge - grids. Since I don't have a Scor-Pal, I had to use my scoring blade on my trimmer to make my lines - and they're not fancy and on an angle or anything. After scoring my background piece, I stamped it with Flourishes' Damask background stamp and then sponged the edges. The main image is from Time for the Bubbly by My Favorite Things. It's stamped in Palette Noir and colored in with Prismacolor pencils and baby oil.


Stamps: Flourishes - Damask, MFT - Time for the Bubbly. Paper: Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon, Select White. Ink: Palette Noir, Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon. Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, baby oil, blending stumps, sponge, ribbon, staple, dimensionals, word window punch, brad.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Happy Birthday

TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a whole year older. Am I thrilled about it? Eh, it's another year closer to 30. At least I get prezzies. That makes up for getting older.

A special surprise was that my Papertrey order arrived today - I didn't get an email from them that it had shipped or anything. It was a nice treat to get stamping goodies.

I also got to see one of my college friends whom I haven't seen in a while. She was driving through on her way to a job interview, so we got together after she got done for a snack.

I had the day off, so I actually got some stamping done. *gasp, shock, horror* Not only that, I did a challenge on the day it was issued, and I'm UPLOADING it on the same day.

Wonders will never cease.

The CC for today was Taken with Teal, Wild Wasabi, and Whisper White.

Well, I was at the Local Scrapbooking Store (LSS) and they had this set of Doodlebug flock colors (tiny bottles of 12 different colors) and I couldn't resist getting it, along with some Doodlebug stickers that work with the glitter or flock - Always being one of the stickers in the set.

It's a No Stamping card. :)
Stamps: none! Paper: Taken with Teal, Wild Wasabi (cs and dp), Whisper White. Ink: Wild Wasabi - to sponge on an edge. Accessories: glue dots, ribbon, dimensionals, Doodlebug stickers, flock.

Earlier today, I had an idea for part of a card pop into my head. It was a background of Flourishes' Damask stamped in River Rock on white cardstock. Everything else was fuzzy, but I wanted the sandy color of River Rock against the white. I also wanted to keep that as open as I possibly could and not hide it away under a big main image, so I just stamped the flower from SU's One of a Kind in River Rock on white and cut it out. I layered it on a black scalloped circle punch out and added a black jumbo brad. I pulled some sheer white and black polka dotted ribbon through the eyelet and tied a knot.
Stamps: Flourishes - Damask, SU - One of a Kind. Paper: River Rock, Basic Black, Whisper White. Ink: River Rock. Accessories: jumbo eyelet, ribbon, dimensionals.

Hoping everyone had a good day,