Stamp Happy

Relax in the Bubbles

Greetings!  I hope you had a great weekend!  I did!  Here in Northeast Ohio, the weather was beautiful!  We enjoyed a cookout with friends on Friday night to celebrate my daughter Kaylie's 16th birthday, and some great opportunities for family time all weekend, too!

I got a little stamping done, but not nearly as much as I wanted to!  Anyone know how I can get one more day off work without falling drastically behind in the things I need to accomplish?  Please let me know if you hold the secret magic potion to make that happen!

I made this card today for the Monday Who's That Girl? challenge sponsored by My Favorite Things over on SCS.  The challenge was to create a card using the Time for the Bubbly stamp set.  You also had to use 4 brads, 1 piece of ribbon, and the dominant color on your card had to be blue.  I think I got it all!

Have a great day!

 

Stamps:  Time for  Bubbly (My Favorite Things
Cardstock:  Starmist, Lemonade, Lava (Bazzill), white (Gary Burlin), designer paper (Fancy Pants)
Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  Stickles (Ranger), Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing folder (ProvoCraft), yellow brads, scalloped border punch (Stampin' Up!), ribbon (craft supply).

Perfect Pearls

These are some cards I made recently for a Perfect Pearls demonstration at the store.  My boss really liked these Leigh Hannan images from Impression Obsession, and when I saw an ad in one of my magazines for Perfect Pearls, I thought they'd go together nicely.  When I first got the Perfect Pearls and started playing around with them, I really regretted my desicision to demonstrate them... I just couldn't seem to make it look nice.  But after I got this card done, I was in love with them!  Isn't this gorgeous?  (Or rather, GOJUS if I want to sound like Jan Tink!... YILM!)  I stamped this on smooth black cardstock with Versamark ink, then embossed it with clear embossing powder.  That little trick really worked well for keeping everything inside the lines, as the embossing worked as a resist to the pearls mixed with water.

The colors aren't showing up well in the picture, but the bees wings are colored with turquoise, and there are tiny pink dots within the leaves, too.  When I went to the AIS Convention in Akron back in April, I learned from Shelly and Sherry that you can add Perfect Pearls to water in a misting bottle and spray it over your project, too.  So my only regret is that I didn't do this with some of the gold pearls after it was finished!  It would have really made it sparkle!

 

 

This second card is also done with Leigh Hannan images.  My store owner really liked this particular stamp when she saw it in the catalog, so even though I said I thought it looked like red onions, I had to get it for her!  I stamped this image also in Versamark and embossed with clear powder on Prism cardstock.  Then again just mixed the pearls with a little water and painted in the images.

 

Beehive card - Stamps:  beehive (Impression Obsession), sentiment (Inkadinkado); Cardstock:  Chiffon (Bazzill), black (The Paper Cut), designer paper (Anna Griffin); Inks:  Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko); Accessories:  Pastel and Jewel Perfect Pearls, clear embossing powder (Ranger), ribbon (Creative Impressions).

Sympathy card - Stamps:  flowers (Impression Obsession), sentiment (Great Impressions); Cardstock:  Light Majestic (Prism), black, white (The Paper Cut), Velvet (Bazzill); Accessories:  oval and scalloped oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Pastel and Jewel Perfect Pearls, clear embossing powder (Ranger), ribbon (craft supply).