Krafty Wedding

I bought this pack of Life Stories paper from My Mind’s Eye months ago.

I was just waiting for a special opportunity to use it.

When I heard about this challenge on the Caardvarks blog I tried to think of something that would be a little bit different.

I thought this kraft/pale blue combination would be perfect.

Something unique yet elegant.

This is what I came up with.

All paper is by My Mind’s Eye.

Around the Page punch is Topiary by Martha Stewart.

Stamp by Lizzie Anne Designs.

I <3 Papertrey

Have you been following along with the Papertrey Ink birthday celebrations?

They have been giving away some awesome prizes.

So generous!

For the contest today you had to make a card using the emboss resist technique.

This is the first time I’ve tried it.

I don’t think it turned out too bad.

I really wanted a blue ink that would cover the brown that I stamped the Distressed Music stamp (by Unity Stamp Co.) with.

I used a distress ink by Tim Holtz, but it didn’t cover it to my liking.

I didn’t have time to try something else, so that just has to do.

I actually started my sewing machine up tonight.

Kind of disappointed that you can hardly see it on the card.

Where am I?

Little blog, I’ve been neglecting you.  Just so you know, I’ve been thinking of you.  Here’s a card:

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I believe all the stamps used on this card are by Studio G.  You have to see the inside too!

 

 

Random thought for the day:  Nothing stinks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

Viewer Discretion Recommended (Scroll down for Unity FWF, Project #007b)

I made this card several nights ago.

It struck me that something was wrong with it, but I didn’t know what.

Hmmm….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My turkey breast has nipples!

Oh my!

 

 

Friends with Flair (Project #006b)

I have a card to share this week!  I even used paper piecing!  This was my first time doing the whole paper piecing thing.  Really quite fun.  Oh, and I sewed on this card!  Wow, I’m impressing myself. 😉

Unity Love (Project #02)

I noticed I haven’t been using my Unity stamps too much lately.  So over the weekend I decided to give them some love. 

All the paper on this card is from American Crafts.  Oh yeah, the ribbon is too!  I’ll show you a close up of the stamped images.  For the sentiment I used my Martha Stewart Glitter Markers to actually color the word “happy” on the stamp and then stamped it again on white cardstock and drew some shadow lines with my black gel pen.  I then popped this up from the original black stamped (Memento Tuxedo Black) sentiment.

I just love that shimmer!

Did I tell you all that I challenged myself to make 25 projects before I buy any new product?  Well this is project #02 toward that goal.  The first one was the LAD challenge card I shared over the weekend.  I am seriously going to work hard to make that many projects before I spend money.  I am tempted by the Michael’s store that is close by every day!

Christmas Flower

Here’s a little card I made a couple of weeks ago:

Christmas Flower

I started this card by stamping the flourish from the Fancy Pants Fresh Mod Set.  I highlighted the ends with a little bit of green Martha Stewart Glitter Marker.  I wanted to add some texture to the flower so I stamped this Autumn Leaves flower stamp three times on pattern paper and used a little adhesive to stick them together.  I put a dab of Distress Stickles in the middle of the flower to accent it a little.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Inks.  Then I doodled around the outside of the stamped area.  I can’t remember where the card base is from (sorry!)

Christmas Flower Close-up

I think I’m in love

You know you really want something when you get out of bed in the morning and it’s the first thing you think about, right?  Well I woke up thinking about Martha Stewart’s Glitter Market Sets this morning. 

There are two sets.  A warm spectrum set and a cool spectrum set.  I have had the cool set for about a year now and I just recently really started playing with it.  Since then I’ve been thinking nonstop about the warm spectrum set.  I couldn’t wait to get my fingers wrapped around those warm colored markers.  So much so that I made a special trip to Walmart on my way to work this morning to snag them. 

At $10 a set they might seem pretty pricey.  Each set has 5 markers, so that comes to $2 a piece.  Which in turn doesn’t sound so bad after all. 

Martha Stewart Glitter Marker Set Cool Spectrum

The cool spectrum set comes in the following colors:  silver, green, purple, blue and indigo. 

Martha Stewart Glitter Marker Set Warm Spectrum

The warm spectrum colors are:  pink, red, orange, gold and yellow.

If you love glitter and sparkle you won’t be able to help yourself, you WILL love these markers.  They have so much shimmer and shine.  They are great for coloring in stamped images or adding a little sparkle to a card or scrapbook page.

To use them you have to shake them well.  Then you depress the point on a piece of scrap paper until the ink starts flowing.  The box stresses that you should not pump the point.  They were kind of like a paint pen in that way. 

The tip is 1mm.  I wouldn’t call this a fine point.  The ink does seem to flow out pretty heavily.  What I do is start the ink flowing on a piece of scrap paper and then move to the project I’m working on.  This has worked great so far.

So overall, it’s my opinion that if you love adding some glitz to your craft projects you will enjoy using these markers.  The amount of shimmer they add to a project is incredible!