Stampin' in the Prairies

First time for everything...

  I bought Liquid Pearls from my LSS a long time ago and it sat in the drawer.  While making this card I was wanting to give it a shimmery, snow like look but I didn't think liquid applique would work as I thought it would screw up his little nose.  So I gave liqiud pearls a try.  I love how it turned out.  It looks bumpy, yet smooth, yet shimmery.  Just like a real snowman. 

I will be honest and say that I don't know if I like the beads, but it's all good! :)

I stamped the main image in red and then added the liquid pearls to the snowman everywhere but the nose.  I colored the nose in orange and then sponged the edges with red.  I then paper pieced th scarf with DSP and added black beads to the eyes, nose and buttons.  I added the beads while the pearls was still wet so it would act like a glue for the beads.  I matted on kiwi next.  The baja layer was stamped with snowflakes using baja ink and then I used the 1/4 inch circle punch to make a ticket edge and sponged the edges with baja ink..  I added the buttons and main image layers next (using pop dots).  The brown DSP layer was sponged around the edges with chocolate ink.  The red DSP was sponged with red ink, too.  The card base was sponged around the edges with kiwi ink.  I added all the layers and ribbon to the card base and then stamped the sentiment in chocolate ink.  What do you think?  How do you like the pearls on the snowman?

Have a great day!

Andria

Supplies used are Stampin' Up unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Two Cool Dudes

Paper: ski slope dsp, kiwi kiss, baja breeze, whisper white

Ink: ridinghood red, kiwi kiss, baja breeze, chocolate chip

Accessories: liquid pearls (lss) beads, in color buttons white tafetta ribbon, 1/2 inch circle punch to make ticket corners

Bloomin' and organizin'

Ok, first I wanna show you a card I made today using my new rubbah.  :)

Supplies are all SU unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful (current mini), So Many Sayings (retired hostess)

Paper: afternoon tea designer paper, soft sky, cameo coral, whisper white

Ink: basic black, markers

Accessories: bookplate (dollarama- love that store!), cocoa grosgrain, color spritzer tool, aquapainter, dimensionals

I stamped the pot on white with black.  Then I used markers and aquapainter to color and then added the spritzing in creamy caramel.  Then I matted on sky and designer papers.  The next layer was two different designers together and then the ribbon was added.  I popped up the main image on dimensionals over the ribbon.  Next,  I colored the sentiment with chocolate and cameo markers and added the bookplate.  This whole layer was again popped up onto a coral base. 

Next, I talked about the card box.  The proper term is "forget me not keeper".  One word, well two- awesome and organized!  I had my cards all over my room before.  This is a kick butt storage solution for your cards.  Take a look and you will see!

I still am not done by any means with getting all my hundreds of cards sorted, but this is a good start I think.  And I think I will be ordering more!

Have a good one!

Been busy

So I have been working on some stuff that I will share in about two weeks.  It has been taking up all my free time.  I am planning on doing some stamping today to share as I just got a bunch of SU! goodies yesterday.  Lookie!

I can't wait to ink these bad boys up.  Oh and enabler alert.  You MUST buy the card storage box in the IB & C.  I put it together last night and wow.  I will share more on that today, also. I will be back in a few!