What Inspires You & Love #3

Okay, so I have been way too busy lately and haven't had time for much stamping. Usually after work I come home, put my jammies on and surf the net and watch my soaps (I tape The Young and the Restless and As the World Turns). This brings me to what inspires me to stamp, it can be a color combo, a layout or maybe an image that I really like. I recently bought some flannel jammies and that is what inspired me for my Christmas cards this year. Here are my jammies and here is the card I came up with. I have had this Penny Black stamp of the two deer for a few years now and I was thrilled to use it for some of my cards. The base card is brown shimmer cardstock and then I layered pink Bazzill bling and light pint Bazzill cardstock that I embossed with my Cuttlebug and Snowflake embossing folder. This card is 5" x 7" so I had to cuttlebug half and then move the folder over and do the other half, and it worked just fine. I stamped the deer with Brown Versacolor ink. I notched the corners of the image and layers with my 1/2" round punch. I just put the tip of the panel in the punch and snipped it off. It's like having two punches in one! I just love that! I wanted the brads to be glittery so I wrapped each one with a Mini Glue Dot (love these) and dipped them in crystal glitter. It is hard to tell, but I added a little twinkle to the eyes of the deer with Diamond Stickles.

What I love #3

Penny Black stamps! I can't begin to tell you how many I have. My favorites are the Brushstroke images and the words/phrases. I own several of the cuter images also. I buy them here. Here are two cards made with a couple of my favorite images.

I would love to hear about your favorite things too!

Things I love #2

#2

Just about anyone who has ever taken one of my classes knows that my all time favorite embellishment is Stickles Glitter Glue. Stickles can add lots of pizazz to even the dullest of cards. My fav colors are Diamond, Star Dust and Crystal. It is a little hard to see in this pic but my DH drilled some holes into a wood block for me so that I can store my nearly empty bottles in. Ya know, I want to use every last bit I can. :)

If you have never tried it, run don't wank to your nearest store to get some. I get mine from here. Sharon tries to keep all of the colors in stock.

Things I Love

For today, I wanted to share the website of one of our very talented local artists. Garden Path Beads is owned by Maria Grimes, whom I met while working at The Cat's Meow. Maria creates lampwork glass beads and has a wonderful, whimsical style. From time to time Maria has an auction on her website for some of her awesome beads and all of the money goes to charity. The money (100%) from her current auction will go to Toys For Tots. I know Maria would love for you to stop in for a look around. Be sure to check out her gallery, you will be amazed.

On the stamping front, I took some photos today a couple of cards and some sweet treats. I will upload pics tomorrow.

More things I love coming soon.