Paper Pleasing Ideas

And ... Julie's Back !!

That is  text I received from my bestie when I showed her my latest creation, and now for Y'ALL to see.

    Well, I hope you like it. I have to say, I am a bit rusty, and my photography skills need a bit of sharpening, but I am back at it and that is what counts, right ?!?

    Well, let's dive right in! The base is elegant eggplant measuring 5.5 X 4.25, and the next layer up is perfect plum the same size. After I ran it through my Big Shot in the (retired, oops) folder, I cut it to be 5.25 X 4, gluing it on with my most beloved Tombow Mono Multi.

    Creating the focal layer, I cut a piece of white to 2.75 X 4, and stamped the largest flower image from Just Believe, first in plum and then eggplant. I then attached it to a 3 X 4.25 eggplant layer and with my trusty piercing tool, made a border around the white edges only.

    I tied a ribbon (also retired) around the card and then used dimensionals to attach the floral centerpiece. I then used the new Labels Collection Framelits to cut my sentiment eggplant layer. I stamped the sentiment, from Apothecary Art, in plum on white, cutting out on the first line and then used the 1" circle punch to punch out the eggplant center. This was attached with a dimensional, as well.

    Finally, I added the butterfly, punched from cardstock weight vellum, and glued only the center down. after it dried, I folded up the wings and added some rhinestones for bling. Pretty pumped for my first card in over a year!!

    Mostly, thanks for sticking with me through it all, as I try to get back into the hobby that kept me sane. Have fun and happy stamping !!

 

Thanks For A Great Weekend

So, Friday morning, I got in the car and drove to my niece's house.  Here she is...

Yep, only 4 years younger than me, though she is related through marriage.  We drove just over 5 hours to Edmonton for a really large upline meeting, there were 180 of us there.  It was awesome, great demos, lovely people and one lady said she read my blog and loved my hair (Thanks Lisa *wink*)!

I had another agenda for going to Edmonton, besides shopping (Ummm, world's LARGEST mall - DUH).  I wanted to meet someone that I chat with regularly and have become friends with, all through this wonderful journey I wander called paper crafting.  This has all developed ONLINE - see, the internet CAN be a good thing!

She made reservations for a great greek restaurant, Syrtaki, and we had a great time.  Who is she??

PEGGY (smallpigpig for you SCSers)!  What a total sweetheart, she came bearing gifts and I got more coasters (Canadians PM her on SCS if you want some - I got the rounds from her!), and it was great to SEE her.  Lots of hugs went around, and now I am going to miss her *moment please*  ...  hehehe.  No really, I totally enjoyed my evening, and 3 hours later, we finally said goodbye. 

I even got to see Gail again this year ( basketballmom), and we had a blast together ALL DAY, since she was at the meeting too.  Her son was also there, doing the closed circuit viewing and was very awesome!  Here is the group shot.

Thanks to you ladies for the awesome evening!  I can hardly wait to do it again next year. 

So tomorrow, me and Andria will be cruising the mall, since we didn't get enough stuff at Mike's (sorry *flinching*) and the $ Store today.  I now have a new pile of stuff to alter and TONS of ideas from the meeting.  All in all a great weekend, and now it is time to hit the jacuzzi tub!

Cya tomorrow