Bold Brights and Baby wipes

I used the baby wipe technique to make my background. It's simple. You'll need glossy (photo) paper, 2 or 3 different colour re-inkers and a tray or a pie plate.


On the tray or pie plate lay out your baby wipe and then squeeze a drop or two of the desired colours onto the baby wipe. The wipe will absorb the colours. Taking the baby wipe now just swipe it over the length of your glossy paper. I swiped it twice to cover my entire piece of paper starting with the orange again. I then stamped my main image using Black Staz-on.


Card recipe: A Beautiful Thing stamp set; Tempting turquoise, Only Orange and Real Red cardstock; glossy paper; Real Red grosgrain ribbon and Staz-on ink.

I don't know why but whenever I think of working with this new stamp set, I automatically go straight for the Bold Brights! And bold it is!

This stamp set 'Time Well Spent' is alot of fun to work with. Lots of colouring, which I love!

The bold background was a bit of an experiment but I liked how it turned out. I had just finished the above card with the babywipe but wasn't ready to throw it away yet. It still had a bit of ink on it, so I cut another piece of glossy paper and just started dabbing the inked babywipe all over. It kind of reminds me of what you might see looking through a kalediscope - a whole lot of colour!!

Card recipe: Time Well Spent stamp set; Tempting Turquoise, Only Orange, Whisper White and glossy card stock; Real Red, Only Orange and Tempting Turquoice stampin' write markers; and a silver brad for centre of flower.

Thanks for looking!

This card that I designed features new designer paper and a new stamp set. The designer paper is called Bali Breeze - it is so pretty and full of vibrant colour!

The stamp set featured here is called Embrace Life. It's a very pretty and elegant new stamp set.

I've also used a large brad that I've created myself using our 'build-a-brad' kit. This kit includes large (1/4") circlular brads and then clear raised dot to finish it off. So what I did for this brad is used my 1/4" cirlce punch to punch out a coordinating blossom from the designer paper used as the background, placed it on the brad and then added to top, and there you have it! The side panel of the card was created with White Staz-on on the Blue Bayou cardstock with another pretty stamp from the same set.

Card Recipe: Groovy Guava, Blue Bayou, Whisper White, and River Rock cardstock, Bali Breeze designer paper; Basic Black and River Rock classic ink; Groovy Guava classic ink applied with a blender pen.

Enjoy

My baby turns 4!

I know we all grow older but I just can't believe that Isaac is now 4 years old! I still clearly remember celebrating his first b'day, where he slept through part of his party and then when we sang Happy Birthday he began to scream and cry because he was always so sensitive to noise. And for his second b'day we rented a bouncy castle for a bunch of 2 year olds, what were we thinking! They enjoyed it but I know now that we could've waited a few years to have such a grand (and expensive) party!! That was our first year for Thomas the Train too. Then came his 3rd b'day. More Thomas the Train and fun play at the community hall. It was simple and the kids had a blast! So thats exactly what we did again this year - just played at the hall. The children are just as excited to see one another and thrilled to just run around and be crazy for an hour or so. We went with the Construction theme this year. Not much has changed as far as his interests in the past 3 years - trucks trucks trucks (and trains)!!

Here's my attempt at Isaac's construction cake. Looks a bit messy, I know. I layered a chocolate cake and then made a 'jobsite' on top using Isaac's little machines and Oreo cookies.

I realized that I really really want to take a cake decorating class. I don't remember much of anything from highschool, back when I was not so bad at this sort of thing...

No matter that he's 4, he's still my little man!

New Year, New Catalogue

Happy New Year friends! The months of November and December were so incredibly busy that it was finally nice to take a break from everything over Christmas. However, now, its been hard to get back into it all again!


Well, we demonstrators received our new Spring/Summer catalogue just the week before Christmas so we had lots to be excited about. I've spent the day stamping with a few new stamp sets! There are lots of new things to look forward to seeing; very pretty designer papers with names like Ginger Blossoms and Bali Breeze, new stamp sets of course, and many new accessories including 'rub-ons'.

My upcoming classes and workshops will include all new products and accessories so keep in touch and watch for my class schedule.



Alicia