More projects to share

The following is made with some retired products, so... If you have the stuff, here's an idea! :D If you don't, you can still take the same basic principle and create a card with the same type of layout.

You can't tell very well in the picture, but I did some distressing of the base brown paper with my nail. The two papers below that are a single sheet that was ripped and one side was flipped. (I love how the Stampin' Up paper has the complementary sides!)

This is another with retired stamps and paper. I followed somebody else's card, but it's been a while since I made this, so I don't remember how I found it and can't give proper credit! Again, though, you can take your papers and available stamps and do a similar layout:

Another card with the same same stamp:

You can't really tell, but I used Crystal Effects on the flower to make it pop out more. (I always love people's reactions to that! "How'd you do that??" :D )

All right, enough for now. More to come later!

My New Favourite Stamp Set!

A quick post about a new stamp set that I really, really love. I can only find two project pictures at the moment, but I know I have some more somewhere. The following pictures are from my phone camera; it's possible the other pictures are on the actual camera.

In any case, my new beloved stamp set is Flowering Flourishes (page 121 of the 2012/2013 Annual Catalogue):

It caught my eye in the new catalogue and was on my first order. I just love it! It is so lovely and elegant. Here are two cards I've made so far with this stamp set:

The textured part of the first card is the Square Lattice Textured Impression Folder. I kept seeing projects recently using that folder and loved every single one of them! It adds such a neat touch. (Do make sure to stamp the paper BEFORE adding the texture! :) ) The coloured paper and the ink are Not Quite Navy with matching Not Quite Navy Taffeta Ribbon. Truly, you could use any colour you wish! I've seen black and white combinations that are just so amazingly elegant. Just gorgeous.

The second card has, I think, Marina Mist for the first layer, then Night of Navy and is stamped in Night of Navy. The rhinestones just give it that extra little something!

That's my quick post for today! :)

Updates coming!

I've been meaning for ages to get to this blog and just haven't. I have pictures of projects to share and all that; I just need to be able to get that all organized and transferred to a computer.

In any case, I felt like blogging about my newest stuff. :) I got a shipment yesterday, a shipment I forgot I was expecting. lol. It's been a busy week! Looking after my two nieces and nephew, taking all five kids (those three plus my two) to swimming every day, busy long weekend... It completely slipped my mind. It was a delightful surprise! :D

I didn't get a lot of stuff this time, a little more than enough to get the Reason to Smile stamp set for $5. The image is no longer available on the website because it was a limited offer, but you can see projects for it here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=23222

I decided to start investing in markers. I see so many projects where markers were used directly on the stamps to create a multicolour image and I decided to go ahead and make a small investment to start. I picked two sets:

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We were heading off to the pool right after I got the shipment, but seeing the markers (and going, "Oh yeah! I forgot I was getting those.") I decided to try something really quickly. This is what I did:

(Sorry, I know the image isn't the greatest! I'm rushing! lol)

Another great thing with using markers is that if you want just part of the stamp, you can easily have just part of the stamp! This is something I really like for the sentiments, since sometimes they have extra stuff I just don't want. (Btw, the letters above were done with the 2011-2012 In Color set.)

I will post back as soon as I can with recent projects! .