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Well, I have seen these roses on everyone's blog lately as well as on Splitcoast and several Yahoo groups. So .... I am not one to not follow trends so I had to try them today. Be warned .... they are addicting!!
Here are my watercolor roses:
And here is a card I made with a yellow rose. I used Taste of Textiles paper (the white and the bronze).
Aren't they gorgeous?
I used another one of my new stamps today - the House Mouse one. It's sooo cute!
I stamped this one on Whisper White paper and colored it with my Prismacolor Markers using the Gamsol method to shade. The confetti was colored with SU's Metallic Pencils (I think they are retired). I punched a hole in the balloon and tied a string around it.
This one was stamped with Staz-On onto watercolor paper. I colored it with my Watercolor Crayons. Then, I used Shimmerz and Radiant Pearls to color the confetti. I used a punch for the two corners and I embossed lines all around the pink paper using my Scor Pal (hard to see in the picture). I also stamped the mouse separately and cut him out and raised him up with dimensional tape.
Sonny and I went to the movies today. It was a cloudy day all day with rain threatening so we couldn't take the boat out. We saw Obsessed (with Beyonce). It was really good! I would recommend it. It's one of those movies that the crowd is cheering on the heroes out loud. You really get involved in the story.
Speaking of rain, did you see on the news the story about the Cowboys practice field getting destroyed yesterday in the storms that went through the Dallas area. (click HERE for a video) Well, we used to live just a few miles from that area. I did my grocery shopping at the Tom Thumb grocers right across the street (plus, my daughter worked there in high school). Scary - I haven't talked to any of my friends yet to see if they had any damage.
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Fun weekend I have had! Yesterday Marianne came over to work on some projects we needed to do for an upcoming visit to a Stampin' Up Quarterly meeting in a few weeks. This is the first time we have been able to bring (only) one guest to the quarterly. We are going to do a 3D Sizzix Swap as well as a convention-style swap. Marianne is making a cute Big Note Purse and I am making Big Note Boxes. I'll share later.
My Texas friend, Margaret, also joined us on Friday. She and her hubbie are here babysitting their grandson (in Charlotte). So, she came upstairs to visit and stamp with Marianne and I and we let the guys babysit Noah!! He's almost 5 so it wasn't so bad for them. You know what they did with him though? They put him in the car and drove to Hickory to Home Depot!! What a man thing! It worked out for them though cause he slept the whole way there and back!
Today I met Marianne at Stamper's Alley at 10:00 for the big SALE!! We had to wait in line for the starting time and then it was "off to the races!" This is the first time I've been able to attend the sale since I've lived here and it was all I've heard it was! There were tables lined up on the patio that stretched about 12-18 feet and they were full of stamps - about 5 deep! I did pretty good though and only spent $18!! I bought 3 Stampin' Up stamps that are retired (All In A Row; Party Hearty; and Mixed Bouquet), one "saying" stamp (Know, that today a friend is thinking about you); a cute House Mouse (Balloon Ride); and a blank Mirror Image stamp.
So, here are a the cards I made tonight with two of the stamps.
This one uses the Mirror Image stamp. You stamp the main stamp (Summer by the Sea) onto the Mirror Image stamp. Then you stamp the Mirror Image on the bottom and the main stamp on top. I embossed the main stamp. This was colored with my Copics.
This is the Mixed Bouquet stamp set. I got the whole set for $4!! It sold for $28.95 when it was in the SU catalog! I stamped the flowers onto Summer Sun and Tangerine Tango cardstock and embossed it. You can't tell it, but I added some Shimmerz to the flowers also. It's really pretty and sparkly IRL. "Sweet" is stamped on a Cuttlebug tag.
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A few people have asked me for the directions for the Top Note Box that I made HERE. So, without further ado, here they are:
I got the directions from THIS blog. Enjoy!
Yesterday a few of my Newcomer Club friends came over to work on making hats and baskets for our upcoming "Hats Off to Spring Tea". We worked almost 5 hours and made 60 little hats (wrapped around Hershey Nuggets) and 50 baskets. The hats were really labor intensive. The hats consist of about 20 circles punched with the 3/4" circle punch. The brim is punched with the 1 3/8" circle. I had a lot of the circles punched out in advance, but it still seemed like it took forever to glue all of them together!! Hope the ladies attending the tea appreciate our efforts! We are going to fill the little baskets with Easter grass but haven't come up with what we will put inside them. It has to be something cheap because most of the budget is going toward the food, teas, renting a clubhouse and the entertainment! Any ideas?
The boxes are made using the Scallop Envelope Punch and the Sizzix.
They were all incredible tonight. I cannot pick a bottom 3 ... but my bottom 2 picks are: Allison & Matt. I think their time is up and I think it will be Matt although I am worried for Allison too.
My favorite of the night is Danny with Kris a close second.
Today was another gorgeous but very WARM day here in NC! We put our boat in the water yesterday and went out for a few hours and I got a little bit of sun. Last night, my sisters came over and we cooked chicken out on the grill - Jamaican Jerk Chicken from this month's Southern Living magazine. It was very good! After it cooled down a bit (got to 90 degrees on Saturday!), we had a good old-fashioned camp-fire in the back yard and toasted marshmallows for Smores! Another yum!! Today we went back on the boat for a few hours and met up with some friends for a late lunch/early supper at the Lake Norman Deli. Such is the life!!
Tonight I made this Top Note Box. It was super easy. If you want the directions, just let me know. I used the Top Note die and my trusty Sizzix for the top and bottom of the box and some retired designer paper. The flower is the Sizzix Flower Layers (p. 199).