GCSP3, take two…

Last weekend when I was playing around with the string background tutorial for the Gingersnap Creations Blue Moon challenge, I ended up with a couple of “trial and error” samples, so I decided to use one of those for a card today. I love this stamp image!! Can’t remember who makes it and am feeling too lazy to go look it up right now—sorry! I do know I picked it up at Stampaway last year. I haven’t played with the new Distress Ink colors a whole lot yet, but I’m loving the Victorian Velvet—what a yummy color!!! The other thing I tried on this card was something I saw in the latest issue of Stamper’s Sampler magazine. There was a gal who made backgrounds by gluing down paper scraps and then going over them with watered down gesso. I did that with some paper last night, and liked the way it turned out, so I used that for the background. The Prima flowers have been hanging around here for awhile and I finally decided to use them. I altered them slightly by rubbing some Victorian Velvet ink on them and edging the petals with a little Rock Candy Stickles. Hope you like it!!

 

I can’t mention the latest issue of Stamper’s Sampler without calling attention to the fabulous article on Wendy Vecchi—doesn’t she do amazing work? And of course, the magazine also features some gorgeous creations by the even more fabulous Lynn Stevens!! You go, girlfriend!! When are we going to see a feature article about you?

I know I shouldn’t jinx myself by bringing this up, but I hope to post something else tomorrow. I mentioned something a couple of posts ago about the great mini-album challenge Roni Johnson has on her blog. I’m going to start on that. The thing is, I’m going to try to incorporate collage images, something I’ve never done before. Not sure exactly how to start on that, but I did make a resolution at the beginning of the year to try some different things, so this is it. Wish me luck!!!

Til tomorrow—TTFN!!!!

Being bad…

But it feels so good! OK—get your mind out of the gutter. My house is a wreck, I’m hosting Thanksgiving, and what have I done this morning? I made a card! I’ve been wanting to do some of the challenges over on the Gingersnap Creations blog, but haven’t had the time. I needed to sneak something in that was more my “style”—everything I’ve made lately has been so clean and simple!  This card was made for GC31—Monochromatic. It’s not terribly involved, but definitely fits my favorite grungy/shabby style.

I know there’s a bit of glare on this pic, but I decided to leave it since it really shows the shine from the Glimmer Mist. In case you can’t read it, the verse says, “The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.” Both the verse and the image are from I Brake for Stamps. Lynn featured this new stamp plate on her blog a week or so ago. I can’t do justice to them the way she does, but I can aspire to! The wide, woven ric rac came from the clearance bin at JoAnn’s—don’t you love it?

I’ve also made some progress towards getting the house cleaned up, although I can’t tell by looking around! I wish someone could tell me why I’m such a terrible procrastinator. I’ve had some shelves to put up in my craft area for a couple of months, so when do I decide to put them up? This morning! Like I really need to be doing construction projects less than a week before Thanksgiving!!! Now I just need to collect the stamps, paper, and various other art supplies from throughout the house and get them piled on the new shelves. Organizing it all will come later (much later!!)

I do hope to get some creative stuff done next weekend. For those of you who don’t know me, I have a special needs sister who lives in a group home. I’ll be picking her up Wednesday morning and keeping her for most of the weekend. The only thing she loves to do is watch the Game Show Network from the time she gets up until she goes to bed. She gets mad if you try to watch something else! So, I always try to spoil her when she comes to stay and we watch GSN from morning til night! Needless to say, I’ll be bored to tears, so I’ll drag the craft stuff back out and hopefully make something fun, or at least get started on my Christmas cards!!

So—I need to get back to work. For those of you who celebrate American Thanksgiving, have a safe and happy one!

Trash to Treasure Art

My wonderful first follower, Lynn, is celebrating her one year blog anniversary and is giving away some of her beautiful art. Here is just a sample:

If you would like to win this or one of another stunning works of art, be sure to visit her blog!

Halloween “Candy”

For those of you who read my post yesterday, you might remember that I was toying with the idea of going to Marco’s when I left Rosa Parks Elementary. Well—it was such a beautiful day that I couldn’t resist the drive up there. I’ve had an idea rolling around in my head for a couple of days and the trip to Marco’s sealed the deal. What am I talking about you may ask? The answer is….

BLOG CANDY!!!!!

And why am I giving away blog candy? I was very excited the other day to discover that I have my first blog follower!!!! Thank you, Lynn! Be sure to check out Lynn’s blog, Trash to Treasure Art. Lynn does fabulous work. And be sure to check out her items published in the latest edition of Somerset Studio magazine—on sale now. I picked up a copy at Marco’s yesterday and Lynn’s pieces are beautiful!

I know—you want me to answer the most important question—what might that blog candy be? Here it is:

Those are the Create A Flake 1 Shapeabilities from Spellbinders and some tags (a la Tim Holtz) thrown in for good measure, since he will hopefully be doing another 12 Tags of Christmas this holiday season and I want you to play along. As for the Shapeabilities—if you’re wondering why I chose these as my very first blog candy, be sure to check out the wonderful tutorial from Sherry Cheever (aka Bad Sherry) over on SCS or on her blog. After you do, you are gonna want these dies!!!!

I’m sure by now you’re wondering how you can win this splendiforous prize. Well, this is where the challenge comes in—between now (October 31) and Saturday, November 14, I want to get comments from a minimum of 15 different people. On November 15, I will put all the names in a box and draw one—that lucky person will get the blog candy. However… if my blog doesn’t get comments from 15 different people, then the blog candy goes to my very first follower, Lynn.

So if you want to be in the running for the dandy candy, leave a comment and get all your friends to leave comments, too.

Let the fun begin!!!