Saturday Rules!

the hubby and i went out to do some errands today and ended up buying a wicked new patio furniture set plus a bistro table & chair set at The Home Depot, on clearance! we thought we'd have to wait til next spring but now we have a great set to enjoy for the rest of the summer! awesome, because we plan to have a couple more bbqs before the weather turns.

happy happy joy joy, to quote Ren & Stimpy. (a very strange cartoon that my brother used to like.) quite the tangent...

so anyway, i'm happy to post this card this evening to finish off the 365 Cards challenges for the week! it's great to see your name in print when Pam posts the full-week finishers, don't you agree?! i got this fab-tastic stamp set yesterday on my jaunt to Michaels, using my last 50% off coupon. i couldn't wait to try it out!

i painted some white cardstock with silver paper paint for my background, to see how it would work out. not bad, i think! the distress inks and brilliance inks needed to be heat-set because they didn't want to dry on their own, but otherwise it was great! i stippled the paint a little with my sponge brush to get some texture.

stuff used:
paper...
white, purple & pale blue speckled cs
stamps...
Hero Arts - Grid Pattern designblock
Martha Stewart - clear butterfly stamps
PSX - happy birthday!
ink...
Tim Holtz distress - broken china
Brilliance - victorian violet, crimson copper & lightning black
extras...
Cherished Memories - cherished silver paper paint
EK Success - scallop dismond border punch
Marvy - mini rectangles punch
Offray - spool o' ribbon looped purple
Forever in Time - purple buttons

cheers! crafty girl

Manic Monday

it's just another manic monday... (80's Bangles song, i'm sure you remember?!)

actually i'm trying to calm myself because i'm overwhelmed with ideas this morning. i had one of those nights when i didn't sleep well cuz i couldn't turn off my brain. ever have that going on? i wanted to get up and write everything down cuz i know i won't remember it all in the morning!

so today we've got Mojo Monday to contend with, as well as day 135 over at 365 Cards. they're both looking sweet! so i jumped right in this morning and got busy! 365 challenged us to make a window card, so i grabbed my clear cardstock (LOVE this stuff!) and did a fairly simple yet elegant card with an asian theme. i have a huge drawer of asian stamps and i rarely use them, even though they are awesome! gotta pull them out way more often...

stuff used:
paper...
Hero Arts - textured notecards
clear cs
GrimmHobby - patterned origami papers
stamps...
Hero Arts - sparkle clear Arigato
Magenta - Asian squares
All Night Media - Chinese Calligraphy
ink...
StazOn - olive green, timber brown
extras...
pop dots
Slice - Animal Crackers design card

and the next creation, based on this Mojo sketch...

stuff used:
paper...
Accent Designs - ginger cs
cocoa & white cs
Basic Grey - Mellow 6x6 paper pad
stamps...
Inkadinkadoo - Bold Damasks
Hero Arts - Time to Enjoy
Savvy Stamps - birthday wishes cursive
ink...
Brilliance - coffee bean
Tim Holtz distress - antique linen
extras...
Martha Stewart - piped ribbon
EK Success - scallop & diamond border punch
Ranger Inkssentials - ink blending tool
cream embroidery thread

cheers! crafty girl

finally it's Friday!

happy friday! it's weird that even though i'm not working right now, i still long for fridays to come along! maybe it's more for my husband so that he can be home hanging out with me. except for this weekend - he's off on a boys' weekend of quading and golfing. but i'm not jealous... really!! (grin)


today's card was made for this week's challenge on the Hero Arts blog. they had a Win-A-Day on the blog contest, and chose 5 readers/card contributors to each get a day on the blog with one of the Hero Arts design team artists all this past week. what a cool contest hey?!

i have been working on wedding themed cards the past couple of days as i will be taking cards to sell at a cool art gallery downtown called eclektica. i was there on wednesday night for a wine tasting & networking event, so i did some... networking! hopefully some card sales will come of it!




















have a fab weekend! i hope we have some nice weather - heard it might rain here. if it shines i'm going to break away from my craft desk (for a little while at least!) and hang out in the yard under the umbrella, a nice cold bevvie by my side!

stuff used:
Hero Arts stamp - floating leaf
Stampabilities - love is a fruit...
cream & speckled green cs
Slice machine - animal crackers & noteworthy design cards
Cuttlebug - swiss dots embossing folder
versamark ink
Hero Arts shadow ink - sage
Draggin' Ink EP - aegean blue
Michaels - pearl stickers
Making Memories - acrylic polkadot frame
pale grey ribbon
pop dots
Plaid - dimensional magic (to attach sheer frame)

cheers!
crafty girl