Here is my stamping bella image for this weeks challenge, it is all about bling! I don't believe you can tell in the picture but I used atyou spica glitter pens on the hem of her dress and to outline the butterflies around her head, the scalloped border (by fiskars) is punched out of glittered cardstock and I glittered up the butterfly, it is a chipboard butterfly by maya road. The glitter looks pretty dark in the picture but it is a pretty combo of purple and turquoise and matches the dp perfectly. First time I tried using prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I like the color combo but couldn't get the colors to blend into one another very well. If the first time you don't succeed...

OOPS! and bling!

Hi everyone! I started this card Monday evening and was pretty happy with the way the image turned out but this is the OOPS I told you about last post where I had the "not so bright" idea to put tack it over and over close inside my nestabilities. Well, needless to say I messed up an entire corner of the image where I tried to rub off the glue that stuck, therefore, paper roses to the rescue! Not sure who made this paper, the cardbase is more of a turquoise green, the colors look a little funky here. The image is Izzie has a daisy by stamping bella. Just got my order from them and I am one happy camper. Now I just have to stamp out all of the bonus saying stamps she sent me so I can read them....

OMG! Paula Williamson wrote me a note!

No picture (yet) but just wanted to share my news. And I know to a lot of you this means absolutely nothing but I sent an email to Paula Williamson (of stamping bella fame) and she wrote me back! I know she doesn't follow my blog so she won't think I am creepy or anything but I was on cloud nine today! Just a simple little Hi Amanda and a little chit chat but boy did it make my day. How nice that such a simple gesture could make someone so happy. Or maybe I just need to get out more...

On another note, I colored up an image tonite, tried the colored pencils and gamsol, inspiration by Paula of course, and it came out pretty well. Of course I couldn't leave well enough alone and decided to cut it out using my nestabilities. Well, I have a hard time keeping my stamped image in the nestability when I am moving it to emboss etc so I had the "bright" idea to add some Tack it Over and over glue to the inner edges thinking that would help. Well, it did but perhaps a little too much because when I popped it out I had little bits of residue all around the edges. Not a big problem, that is what fingernails are for! So I rubbed and rubbed and got most of it off then decided to see if a baby wipe would get the last little bit off, well all it did was raise the nap of the paper and wipe off a bit of my ink. Darn it! Guess I will have to slap a flower on that spot!

Enough rambling, just wanted to share my happy news and my warning!

This is the other reason. Sinbad is laying in the window in front of my countertop that I work at. We call him the moth hunter because he jumps at the windows whenever he sees a bug. Somewhat distracting when you are trying to color!

Well, today I made a trip to my lss just cause I haven't been there in awhile and came home with a bunch of paper, some maya road chipboard and some velvet flowers. They don't have much as far as stamps go, mostly geared towards scrapbookers which I have never been. Tomorrow I have a baby shower to attend and make a quickie card tonite for the shower. For some reason it looks kinda dirty in the photo but it is a nice clean white, I'm not much into grunge! I believe the paper is DCWV nursery stack and the image is a penny black stamp from a few years ago. Hope everyone is having a good weekend and now I am gonna start on my stamping bella image so I am not doing it an hour before the deadline.... not a good thing!

TGIF!!!

Hey everyone, so glad it is finally friday! This has just been a very busy week for me which I think I mentioned yesterday but being friends and all I am sure you don't mind hearing it again, right? Anyways, my plans for the weekend are to start on my stamping bella card early instead of rushing to get it done, the challenge next friday is bling and I love my bling! Have a few more birthday cards to get done and hopefully take a picture of to post so you can see them. Still not getting the greatest pictures in the world so if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate them. I can take constructive criticism, sort of, kind of...

Anyhoo, this is a little message to Vanessa, your cake will be great I am sure of it and if there is any problems just tell them it was under siege right before you served it!

Enjoy your weekend and will try to put up some more pictures for your viewing "pleasure".

What a week...

Well, here is my card for the stamping bella challenge for this week, not my best work by far but at least I did the challenge. The challenge this week was to paper piece a card. I used yellow cardstock for the basket with some added lines for definition with my copic liner pen and paper pieced the pants and the shirt. I just couldn't seem to get this card to come together well no matter how I arranged things. Too much of a rush this week between work, making a birthday cake and two birthday cards for friends. How soon is that weekend coming??? I don't have the name of the papers as they came in a precut 6x6 stack of various papers with an order I had placed somewhere along the line!
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