Floating Re-inker Technique

I learnt how to do this technique this past week at my Upline's house. I love this technique and had just received a package of shimmery white cardstock in my order and knew that I had to play with it. I used the rose from 5th avenue floral, stamped it in craft white ink and then used clear embossing powder on it. Heat it with your heat tool until all the embossing powder has melted. You'll need a spray bottle with water in it, spray it generously so that the water is actually dripping off. The more water the better as this helps to float the color. Once your done spraying it your ready to use your aqua brush and reinkers, for mine I used pretty in pink, pink pirouette and so saffron. I am still very limited in my reinkers so used what I had. As you can see this color combination worked well. After I was done to speed up the drying process, I dabbed at the excess water with a corner of a paper towel and then used my heat tool to finish drying it. Then cut out the image by hand.

Here's my finished card. I'd love to hear your comments.

MDS Layout

I did this layout a couple of days ago and was really hoping I'd have some time and energy to get a card or paper layout done over the weekend, but so far it doesn't look like it's going to happen. I had a super busy week this past week, and it's been tough finding time for myself. This weekend the nice sun has decided to come and pay us a visit and so I spent the afternoon outside weeding, and unfortunately paid the price afterwards as my allergies were acting up. I had a nice 2 hr nap before dinner and I was lucky enough to wake to dinner being ready. A nice yummy steak dinner, no complaints here.And tomorrow I am volunteering at a Special Olympics fundraiser where my daughter will be one of the athletes present. We're hoping the day is a huge success.

Here's the layout I did, the pics were all taken on Easter Sunday at my moms place.

Last nights creation

I was working on getting some really old pics scrapped last night, by old I mean approx 15 yrs old. They are of my oldest daughter with my dad. It was funny while I was working on them, my little guy who's 8yrs old was watching what I was doing and asked who was in the picture. I asked him who it looked like, and he answered Grandpa, but he looks younger and still has holes in his hair.The holes in the hair refers to Grandpa's bald spot. I chuckled as I thought he was too cute. I love these moments and try to record as many as possible, they grow up far too quick.

The DSP used in this one is retired and I bought it off the clearance rack, if your interested in checking out my clearance rack go to Shop Now

This weeks Sketchy Thursday

I tried to do something a little different with this weeks sketch by not following it to a tee. So instead I stamped some flowers on watercolor paper and used Stampin Up markers, Watercolor pencils and Watercolor crayons to color them in with the blender pen. It was a lot of work, in fact this page took me aprox 2 hours. I can't remember the last time I spent that kind of time on a page. But I'm happy with how it turned out. The patterned paper is Greenhouse Gala. And the ricrac is off of Stampin Up's clearance rack. And the flower stamps are from the 5th Avenue stamp set.

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Lots of exciting news today!  Stampin' Up! just announced that April and May promotions will overlap , as the May Specials went life yesterday!!  Today is the last day to order from the Occasions mini catalog!!! As well today is the last day to take advantage of the  Spring is Blossoming Promotion, where you can get items that will be in the NEW 2011-2012 catalog. Visit my website to check these promotions
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Another Funky fold card

I just love this fold as it looks so different and is actually really easy to do. I will be posting a tutorial on my website shortly so keep checking if your interested.

This time I chose to do a girly card using Pink Pirouette and Whisper White Cardstock. I embossed the Pink Pirouette cardstock and also inked the edges. I also used the embossing folder on the flower as well, a pink button in the middle and some white bakers twine. The Happy Birthday is from the Curly Cute Stamp Set and I used a couple of Rhinestones as well.

Sail Away

I've been dying to get my hands on this great stamp. It finally arrived today and after doing a little house cleaning after work I went down to my scrapping space and put away my new goodies and also spent some time creating. I had seen a similaer card done by Lorri Heiling and chose to case her card. This stamp is from the new Summer mini and is one of many great stamps. It seems that I don't create that many masculine cards, but this one would definetly fall into that category. If your interested in a video on how to do this fold check out this link http://sweeetdesignsbycheryl.blogspot.com/2010/08/rrr-challenge6-aloha-funky-fold-video.html

My kids Easter Treats

Well this year for some unknown reason I was a last minute shopper for Easter. And by the time we went to the store they were sold out of Easter Bunnies. So I got a variety of different Easter Candy and made up a little goodie bag for them and made a little bunny face for the top of the bag. This was cased off of Charlotte Hollingsworth. The kids just loved them.

Needing to make some birthday cards

My mom asked me the other day if she could buy a card off of me for her aunt. I told her sure no problem thinking I had lots of birthday cards. After having looked through them I realized a lot of them were a younger type style. So I figured today would be a good day to try and get some made. Well the first one I made, only one so far was based off the monday mojo sketch. I used the because I care stamp set (hostess set) as well as another hostess set which I believe is called occasional quotes for the Happy Birthday. I also used the en francais stamp for the background, this was heat embossed and then I sponged over the paper with perfect plum ink. The blushing bride cardstock was embossed and then I lightly sponged over it in the perfect plum ink again, not that you can really see this in the picture. Overall I'm happy with the way it turned out.

This weeks page for the sketchy thursday challenge

I'vebeen wanting to do this sketch since I saw it last Thursday, just haven't had the time. Tonite after visiting with my parents and then getting the kids to bed I gave myself some time downstairs to get a page done. The original sketch for this was a two page layout and I only did a one pager. I wasn't able to find enough pics to do a 2 pager, not quickly anyways, lol. I tried to go outside the box a bit by combining various Stampin Up colors including Soft Suede, Rose Red, Baja Breeze and Daffodil yellow. The yellow dsp is from the Greenhouse Gala collection and I used the new bakers twine that's a preorder from the new summer mini.

My take on the Thursday sketch

Sorry for not posting yesterday, I've been quite sick with this nasty cold and actually spent the entire day in bed sleeping. Still not feeling great today, but I've got a bit more energy and managed to do a page for the Thursday sketch challenge. A fairly simple page, which kind of just goes with the way I'm feeling.

My attempt at a vintage look

I'm not really the type to do vintage, it's really not a style I've tried before. Tonite I decided I'd give it a try. Lots of distressing on this card, soft suede ink around the edges and the back is the emboss resist technique. Overall I'm happy with the way it turned out. Let me know if you think it looks like a vintage style card.