A Touch of Grace

Hi everyone, CHA is fast approaching and I’ve got to get in design mode!  I’ll be busy over the next couple of weeks getting ready for my trip to California.   I have several designs on my blog using this stamp and I’m in the process of categorizing all of my designs so that when you click on the category, you’ll see different designs for that particular stamp.  This stamp’s actual name is birdhouse flowers, but I like to call it wildflowers because it reminds me so much of a spray of wildflowers.

I’ve designed a bookmark using my new long rectangle Nestibilities that I ordered from Joan’s Gardens as well as an order for Kaiser pearls, I love those pearls!  I added the pearls to the glittered butterflies in different sizes using the Martha Stewart butterfly punch.   This design also qualifies for Sharon Johnson’s ssnotime67 - new toys challenge; not only am I using new nesties and pearls, but I’m also using new bookmark tassels from The Paper Company.  My son said these won’t make good bookmarks because of the dimension of the butterflies (three layers total).  Silly guy, these are for looks, not function! Really . . . guys just don’t get it!

Oh, and isn’t this picture so lovely with the background colors, they almost blend right in with the actual design.  Another new toy was a fabulous Canon camera from my hubby, it’s just perfect for taking pictures of my projects, isn’t he such a sweetie! I think he was more excited Christmas morning than I was.

I made six bookmarks and will be bringing some to CHA as samples.  I hope to see many of you there, please come by to say Hi.

• Stamps:   A Muse Sentiment
• Paper:  Prism Dark Cobalt Blue, Bienfang water color paper 140 lbs. cold-pressed
• Ink:  Versamark, SU Classic Black
• Accessories:  Water color brush, hole punch, Martha Stewart butterfly punch; long rectangle nesties, Krylon gold leaf pen, bookmark tassle, heating tool, Ranger gold/gold tinsel EP, Kaiser Pearls, dimensionals, Tombow markers, Dazzling Diamonds, Glue Glider

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s.  I’ve taken the last two weeks off to spend time with my husband and sons.  Stephen came home from college on the 16th and returns to Nashville tomorrow (sigh), I’m going to miss him so!  Daniel also goes back to school on Tuesday, I imagine it’s going to be very quiet here with everyone gone.  My husband took vacation time during the holiday (for the first time ever) so you can see why I haven’t been blogging.  We’ve had a wonderful and relaxing time.

I’ll be back tomorrow to share a post with you of a project I worked on this weekend.  I finished late this evening and didn’t have the proper lighting for a good picture.  I like to take my photos in natural sun light as I don’t do very well with Photoshop (another item to put on my
“to do” list .  .  . learn Photoshop!).  Check out  Joan’s Gardens, she’s offering a few items I’ve used in my project that I’ll be posting tomorrow.

Sandi, Diana, and I met last Friday with the team designing the Me & Carrie Lou internet store and are hoping it will be up and running before the end of the month.  I will announce the opening here on my blog and will provide a link to the store in my sidebar.  We are headed to CHA at the end of the month and I hope to see you there.