I'm Back and full of new ideas....

Have you ever just been in a slump and haven't been able to play with something you love doing? Well that has been me the last few months with my DH getting his promotion and then just feeling I can't come up with anything to stamp. Well This past weekend I went to Stampin Up!'s regional in VA Beach and I feel so ready to play with my stamps again. All the ideas they had were so much fun and of course I took to great ladies with me... can't have all the fun without friends.

Well I got back home and did some blurfing(for those who don't know what blurfing is it is another word for surfing some of my favorite blog sites). Well after doing it alittle bit I got inspired to try and do a challenge for the MFT ( My Favorite Things) Guest designer spot... It was watercoloring and guess what they promoted at SU regionals this weekend.. yup lots of watercoloring... My favorite thing along with my copics. But lets get back to my card...



I had to grab out my twinkling H2Os and my pink pirouette ink pad and have some fun with this card... And I've gotten alittle addicted lately with shape cards and what makes that so fun is my nestablities make making shape cards so easy....

These pictures really don't give this card justice since the twinkling H2Os sparkle so much... With all this sparkle I thought it needed alittle bling too. I love SU felt flurries too and the gems I got a while back at M's on clearance. They were the perfect bling for this card.. I hope you all are having a great Monday and I'm back and ready to stamp... So be ready to comeback for reads...

MIA for alittle bit...

Sorry but I have been MIA for a little bit here and now I am back with both some beautiful pictures of a sunset I took two days ago and a card...



You can click on these to see a larger picture of them... I love to see a beautiful sunset and I have seen a lot since we moved into this house.

Now I guess I better show you my card for today....





Again I used my Thomas Kinkade stamp, The Forest Chapel Vignette, from Cornish Heritage Farms' Thomas Kinkade line. I just love this image now that I have figured a way to color it... This time I used some of my Twinkling H2O watercolor cakes to highlight the windows and some of the other colors. I was happy with my result again. Even made the sunset in with my watercolor cakes.

Supplies:
Stamps: Thomas Kinkade Forest chapel vignette, Birthday hugs and wishes
Ink: Black stazon, Creamy caramel
Cardstock: Natural ivory, designeer paper from Today and always Scrapin kit(retired), watercolor paper
Accessories: taffeta ribbon, utee, watercolor crayons, Twinkling H2os, aquapainter

Simple Thanks set

Today I found my old camera card so I was able to get some pictures of my Thank you card set I designed. There are 8 cards in the pack all are the same. I decided to break out my Twinkling H2Os watercolor cakes. I have not use them in a while and I just love the shimmer they leave on a card. I used them to color my main image and to stamp the leaves on my scalloped square frame. This was a fun set to make.



I used one of the clear boxes that papertrey ink sells on their sight. You get 10 clear boxes for just $6 and you can use them for just about anything. I liked make this set and put a belly band across my box to make it match the set....




Supplies: Give Thanks Stamp set, borders and corners square set, papertrey ink stampers select white cardstock, garden green cardstock, pumpkin pie cardstock, watercolor paper, more mustard grosgrain ribbon, twinkling H2Os Spiced pumpkin, cedar wood, and olive vine, and a watercolor brush, paper crimper

This was a fun set to make and even the envelopes I made for this are matching. The card in the first picture is setting on the envelope. Well off to see what housework I can get done today... have a great afternoon.