Love note

 If you follow my blog you know that this card is pretty different for me!

My niece had me create this card, and asked for black roses.

I wasn't sure what she meant until she sent me a picture!

I picked up the stamp from Michaels, it's a Stampendous Stamp, and is a good size stamp

As you can (maybe) see I stamped on black cardstock and then used my white embossing powder

**side story** I got the white embossing powder from my mom when she was cleaning out...

I distinctly remember when she first got the powder.

I was probably 7 or 8 years old, and we went to this little craft fair (the town I lived in was small!)

my mom bottle of embossing powder, a couple of stamps (which I also now have) and a stamp pad.

This was my first experience with any sort of papercrafting!

That was probably about 25 years ago, and the embossing powder still works!

Here's a close up of the main rose.

I used my metalic gelpens to color in just this flower, the gelpen is supposed to have a pink tint,

but it doesn't really show up very good in the pics!

 

Linking up with:

Stampendous: Love Letters

A blog named Hero: Flowers

 

Life is good

 Today was my first day of working at 6 am, and getting out at 4pm.

Yeah!  So I had some time to finish up this card that I had started yesterday!

I used my daisy from Stampendous, but colored it up to look like a sunflower!

I loooove how big and versatile this stamp can be!

Sooooo after stamping and coloring,

I cut it into pieces.

Yep, so that I could put it back together in a grid pattern!

I've never tried this technique before, and thought this is the perfect image to do it with!

My pieces did turn out a little lop sided, but live and learn right???

I have been super lucky with the challenges at Stampendous, and am hoping this month will be just as lucky in their fall fun challenge!

Their challenge is Fall Fun, and to me a bright yellow sunflower just screams fall!

I'm also linking up with the Technique Challenge at

Just Us Girls

and also the Clean and Simple Challenge at Love to Create

While I'm at it why not link up to the Fall Challenge at Oozak?

 Also linking up with the sunflower challenge at curtain call. 

I hope you feel inspired to create today!

And if there are any of my fabulous creations that you just love, or would like something similar, I am happy to create and sell to you! Just contact me by email!

 

A stampendous Christmas card!

                         It is still very hard to believe that it's almost December!

Today I was at the park in shorts and a tank top yet again! 

I know I live in Arizona, but I want it to feel like Christmas!

Soooo I made this pretty  Christmas card when I got back from my work out!

I'm playing along with the challenge over at the Stampendous Blog who is teaming up with

coredinations for a hard core Crop!

The challenge is to use a stampendous stamp (that would be Santa!)

And also to use coordinations color core Cardstock

The black with the red paper is coordinations, and the green background paper is also

coordinations! 

I embossed the black paper with my Tim Holtz embossing folder,

which made the paper crack, I then sanded it with my sander, and cut the edges with my

pinking sheers. (yep, I've used them before, and I'll use them again!)

For the green cardstock I also cut the top and bottom edges with my pinking sheers,

I then ran the edges thru my sewing machine

I then cut a piece of gold ribbon and added an antique button (estate sale find)

Here is a close up of Santa

as you can maybe see, I paper peiced the middle of him.  I love the little

added detail this brings!

I'm sure if you've been following my work at all you are getting super sick of this

same green color over and over... I have great news... Today I bought 2 new copic's

both in green!  I'm super excited to try them out tonight! 

I hope your Christmas Crafts are all on track! 

I am also entering this into:

Creative Inspirations: Traditional Christmas Colors (this is my second entry, if that is no acceptable please delete my prior entry thank you!)

Crafty Sentiments: Red, White, and green (and in my case black as well)