Tour De Freaks!

Welcome to the monthly Tour De Freaks Blog Hop!

I hope you are enjoying the ride! Be sure to make the rounds to all the amazing ladies that can be found in our tour today. . .Not the least of which is the lovely, freaky Wendy Weixler, who sent you to me. Thanks Wendy!

I am going to share with you my “little experiment” with backgrounds and the Serene Snowflakes stamp set. I LOVE these snowflakes! I used the same colors and stamp set, just different background techniques so you can compare . . .

This first card is using Stampin’ Up’s new Shimmer paint:

I don’t know how well this photographed, but there is a of Night of Navy layer, as well as a window sheet layer directly over top. Both layers are stamped with frost white shimmer paint. I used a sponge dauber to apply the paint directly to the stamp.

The effect is so gorgeous! Stamp the window sheet first, so you can see exactly where you need snowflakes to fall underneath. . .

The sentiment is from the hostess set Christmas Punch, and the ribbon is basic grey taffeta.

Subtle and marvelous come to mind, too. . .but let’s move on!

The second is a brayered Background:

Here, I went for the glossy cardstock and layered my colors. Snowflakes in versamark, brayer with Night of Navy ink, more snowflakes in Night of navy both stamped off and full color. . .

Oh My Sparkle!! Dazzling Diamonds anyone?!?

Hope you take a jump right over to the gorgeous and oh-so-talented Cindy Major and see what she has to share! Have a great week :)

Enjoying Life at Convention!!!

WoW!  What an awesome time!

I was unable to take my laptop this year, as it is my daughter’s connection with Daddy overseas and I wanted them to be able to chat via webcam.  That being said-they didn’t even use it while I was gone. . .Which makes me *really* wish I had taken it to share everything with you all!

Anyhoo, I wanted to share a project I made before I left.  This is the notebook I made for my downline, Jen.

  

I wanted us to have matching ones, so I picked up two.  I want to say it was at Meijer?  I have been really trying to remember where I picked these up, as everyone who photographed this at convention wanted to know! 

It has been a while since I bought it so I think my brain let that go as Useless Information :)

What I do know is it said “Pink and Black” on the cover before I covered it.  Hope that helps!

Okay, People.  This stamp is seriously gorgeous!!!

The new Stampin’ Up! Medallion stamp is inked in Pink Passion classic ink, then sponged around the edges and in the center with Basic Black Classic ink to get that purple gradation.   Who Knew??

Also new:  5/8in black grograin

Black goes with everything!

I am not sure how clear it is in this photo, but there’s Dazzling Diamonds (applied with a 2-way glue pen) on select points of the medallion.  The entire white panel is then laminated with a self adhesive document laminating sheet. 

Stamps: Medallion, Enjoy Every Moment; Ink: Pink Passion, Basic Black, Black Stazon; Paper:Whisper White, Basic Black; Other Stuff:  5/8 black grograin, Dazzling Diamonds, 2 way glue pen, sponge, laminating sheet, Stamp-a-majig

Hope you like!  I will be sharing some high points of my Convention Adventure in the next several posts, as well as some of my projects made for various swaps.