I don't have much chatter for you this morning - something about the first day back from vacation, back to being alone with the 3 kids for the first time in 2 weeks... it's all I can do to catch my breath!
This is the 3rd card I made for my cousin Julie's wedding - less a week to go for her big day! My sister has claimed this one for her own :)
I dusted the box of some of my SU stamps - time to give them some love as well... I stamped the "ornate blossom" image onto some cream cardstock and clear embossed it. I then layered a hero arts text background, and an old SU background stamp called "sanded" over the top. The embossed image "resists" any ink you lay over it - I love this technique! I then went to town with a few colors of distress inks, until I was happy with how it looked.
Hope you like it as much as I do!
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
You're a peach! (no, really - you are!)
Did ya miss me? Probably not, lol. We packed up our crazy family and went to Vermont for a few days of spring break. Apparently, 3 other families we know had the same idea :) Our kids had the time of their lives with other little friends in the hotel pool (and when you are 5 and 3 yrs old, there is nothing more fun as swimming in the hotel pool - it's a fact. Let's not talk about the 10 month old who freaks out over everything... water included.) We even ran into Sofia's school principal - in her sweats, feeling around for her morning coffee at the breakfast bar... hilarious.
We went to Michaels (I usually schedule trips around where the nearest Michaels can be found, since it doesn't exist in Montreal,) but it turns out I have been tainted. Way too spoiled by PTI and SU stuff to appreciate much of anything there. I ended up raiding the dollar bin for the kids so they could stamp in the hotel after their baby sister went to bed. I thieved one of their new stamps for this card - I thought it was pretty cute! I stamped it 3 separate times: once on the notebook die cut, and 2 other times on post-it notes. I created a mask for the peach and for the leaf out of these post-its, so that I could stamp a pattern inside without adding extra layers to the card. Here's a close-up shot:
See? No extra layers. And by the way, thanks for reading my blog. You're a peach. xoxo.
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