Blue squishy birthday cake...

Well, if the title didn't pull you in...

My youngest LOVES squishies... she is obsessed!  This is the big one Santa brought for Christmas.  It's my personal favorite...

Supplies:

• Canson Mix Media paper
• Micron pens
• Rexall Derwent watercolor pencils
• The sprinkles in the background were made by cutting a hotel room key into a thin strip and dipping it into Distress Paint in Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry, and Broken China

This will be cute for some of MM's buddies.

I'd like to share this at the following challenges:

• Unstampabelles: Anything Goes
• Art Impressions:
  

Shaving Cream Experiments #1

Here is the first card I'm sharing after spending two days with my very first shaving cream experiments:

Supplies:

• Shaving cream and Dylsuions sprays.  I watched a few videos and read a few tutorials.  They are kind of all the same, and so I just jumped in, and this is how I did mine:
• Smoothed shaving cream into a plastic container
• Dripped Dylusions ink onto the surface of the shaving cream
• Used a crochet hook to drag the ink around
• Pressed the paper into it.
• Tim's sentiment dies cut from Recollections cardstock
• Recollections cardstock and Heidi Swapp paper as mats

So much fun.  Addicted to this technique.  I'll be sharing lots in the near future from these past two days of play!

In the meantime, I'll share this one at the following challenges:

• HLS CAS, February:
  
• Simon Says Stamp on Wednesday: "It must be love"
• Scrapy Land: Anything Goes with Scrapy Land dies

"Plus" Valentine

Here is a real stash-buster...

All pieces were basically on my desk...

Supplies:

• "XOXO"was painted on a scrap of watercolor paper with excess black Liquitex gesso a week ago. It was popped up with 3M dimensional adhesive
• The heart was cut with a Fiskars punch from some playtime with Tim's alcohol ink.  It was popped up with 3M dimensional adhesive.
• The plus sign background was made as a monoprint of Tim's Plus stencil previously sprayed with Dylusions sprays-- for this piece the stencil was sprayed with water and pressed to the scrap of watercolor paper... no ink goes to waste on my watch!
• The pink mounting panel is from a Heidi Swapp pad-- from a scrap.

I'd love to share this at the following challenges:

• HLS Watercolor, February:
  
• CAS Watercolor, February:
  
• Unstampabelles: AG (Newly acquired: not exciting, but I just had to get new A2 cards and new Tombow tape... very "behind the scenes" stuff.  The Plus stencil is my newest stencil, less than 2 months old.)

Thrift store rose score!

Found this fabulous rose stamp at the thrift store last weekend.  The stamp has no image on it's block, and the stamp itself was so caked with ink that it took me like 30 seconds to figure out what it was... and once I realized it was a rose, I was like YES!  I love roses!

Supplies:

• Rose stamp of unknown origins or make inked in Versamark in Champagne and heat embossed with Ranger EP in Princess Gold
• Pink striped paper from a Heidi Swapp pad
• Gold+cream stripes from a DCWV pad
• Heart punch by Fiskars popped up with 3M dimensional adhesive

I'll share this sweet Valentineat the following challenges:

• Addicted To Stamps: 
  
• STAMPlorations, February:
  
• Creative With Stamps: 
  

"You and me"... resist paper

Made this panel a few months back and with Valentine's upon us, I found it and decided it needed to be made into a card:

Supplies:

• The main panel is resist paper by Cosmo Cricket
• DIs used: Crushed Olive and Peacock Feathers
• Panel mounted on Tim Holtz metallic kraft-core

I'd like to share this at the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp on Monday: "Love is in the air"
• AAA: 
  
• Addicted to CAS:
  

SOS: Olympics! Feature a sport, any sport!

Hello!

I am the hostess at Shopping Our Stash this week, and I'm encouraging participants to celebrate the Olympics with me by featuring a sport, any sport on your project!

It's my sweetie's birthday this month, and he is a life-long die-hard Cal Bears fan.  He is going to love this!  And I loved using papers and stickers that I'd hoarded!

Here's my project:

Supplies and notes:

• All Cal papers and stickers bought in Berkeley over five years ago, completely unused and uncut!
• The circle on the front was in my die-cut stash

That's it!  Just a bunch of papers and stickers!  

Hope you'll join us in celebrating the Olympics at Shopping Our Stash!  See you over there!

If you are also interested in the upcoming Winter Olympics, you must visit the official site... it's awesome.  I am giving a presentation to the elementary school about the Olympics this week, and I made a huge chart (8'x10') to chart the medals across all 15 disciplines!  I also made a paper torch for our beloved interim principal to run through the gym! :)

Dear Soul

I made three of these a couple months ago and found that I didn't want to sell them, and then I didn't want to use them!  So I finally was like, "Ummm, you can make more..." What a concept!:

Haha, I just glanced at the post from November (link above) and it even says I wanted to make about 100,000 of them!  So now I've made 4.  99,996 left to go!

Supplies:

• Tim Holtz Scribbles stamp inked with Distress embossing ink then embossed with Recollections EP in black on Strathmore watercolor paper
• Color Bursts in Indigo, Merlot, and Violet.  I've started keeping sticky-notes with the inks I use on the backs of panels I make.  I used to think I could always identify the colors used, but there are so many variables depending on color combinations and amounts and amounts of water that I wasn't always able to determine what I'd used!  For example, on this one, I thought I'd used Ultramarine Blue, but when I checked my notes, I realized that the Indigo just appears really blue on this card based on the amount of water and probably in contrast with the Merlot!  Only Lauren Beregold will appreciate this rant, but I had to get it out...
• Popped the entire panels up with 3M dimensional adhesive
• Tim's Small Talk stickers added as the sentiment

This card will be good as a "thank you"or a "thinking of you," I believe.

I'd like to share this with two of my fave challenges:

• Try It On Tuesday: Fire and Ice (I went with icy colors)
• Simon Says Stamp on Wednesday: AG