Whimsical Cherish the Memories Card

Pattern Paper:  Pink Paislee Botanical Garden
Cherish The Memories Just Rite Stamp Sentiment
Spellbinders Bird Sanctuary

Spellbinders Labels Twenty
Spellbinders Fancy Tags
Prima Flowers and Tea Stain Lace



Inside of Card : Spellbinders Bird Sanctuary
Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch
Top inside: Martha Stewart Large Punch Around the Page set - Wildflowers
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder 5"x7"



Hello  All my Blogging Friends....

I'm back after a bit of a break spending time with my husband and children, spoiling the youngest of our 3 boys who came home on leave from the Air Force and choosing to spend some down time with his parents.  Being stationed in another province, we only get to see him about every 6 months for a brief week and a half or so -- but we're always happy to take whatever time we can get.  I did a last card up before taking my break and just didn't really have lots of time on my hands to post until now.  I plan on doing lots more creating in the next couple of weeks as well as mix in some time for a training course for work.  I am pumped as I have some great new Cheery Lynn Dies to try out and show off!  Some are doily dies -- some are border dies -- and I have some other fantastic product to play with and then post here to show all of you .... I am getting ramped up here just talking about it!  There is a whole lot of planning going on for the fall cropping season for all of the demos and technique workshops I will be putting out on my travels with Deb and OC Scrapbookers Gang!! Can't give too much away right now but Wow  -- we're pumped! 

I urge you to go on over to OC Scrapbookers and see the great preorder sales on JustRite Stamps that is on right now.  Deb has put a discount on all JustRite stamps that she's loaded on the website so that there is a preorder special on some of last season's JustRite sets and on the newest JustRite sets too -- all told there is 10 pages of different stamp sets to choose from.  I have my order in for some of the new sets that I plan to do some seasonal projects with in the next couple of months.  Oh Boy~~  Stay tuned for more projects coming up featuring some of the past season's greatest Just Rite stamps currently listed on the preorder sale!

An Eclectic Group of Products used on this card!

Happy Summer Days...

How are we all doing this fine and hot, hot day?  I am staying cool here in the house laying low and out of the hot and humid weather.  My summer visitors are all gone now and I am just settling and resting from the hustle and bustle - I haven't really stopped since school was out at the end of June.  Now I'm going to have some me time and get to work on some fun stuff.  I am posting another card tonight and on this card I used a few unrelated products. This stamp is another one that I borrowed from a friend as I found it very interesting and thought it would be different to use.  It's a Lablanche Silicone Stamp (Deb can get them in).  I inked the stamp up with Momento Black ink - which is the best ink to use when coloring the stamped image with Copic alcohol markers.  I was intrigued with the crispness of the image as I wanted to practice coloring with Copics and knew that this image would test my coloring abilities.  I layered up the stamped image with a randomly torn piece of pattern script paper, well distressed with Ranger Antique Linen Distress ink.  The flower on the top part of the card is one given to me by my friend who was working on a Glimmer Mist technique flower..  She Glimmer Misted some paper with layers of various colors of Glimmer Mist letting the paper dry between layers.  Once the paper was glimmered up and dry she punched several flowers out of the paper and then layered them up.  She scrunched them up and distressed them with Ranger Distress inks.  She offered me one and I chose this color to go on this card.  It is quite shimmery and shows up better in person.  The sentiment is a stamp from JustRite's 31/4" round Butterfly Garden Collection.  The Spellbinders are Labels Nineteen, Labels Six, and on each end of the Label Six I put an Accent #1 from the Tulips Pendants set to make it look dimensional and ornate.  Last but not least, the butterfly on the bottom left corner is a butterfly stamp I had in my stash.  I stamped it on vellum twice and cut it out, colored it on the backside with pastel colored copic markers, and layered it up. I traced the edge with a glue pen and stuck some gliter on it for a sparkly effect!  So there you have it!  These products and so much more can be found at my favourite webstore OC Scrapbookers n More...click on link above the go to the store and see what preorders she is loading on the site.  No time like the present to get ready for the fall cropping season!!  Can't wait!!