Home {in high definition}

Friday i had an ear appointment to have the sound processor adjusted. and ended up leaving with 3 new programs. one is a louder version of what i have had for the first two weeks, and the other two are more what the Dr. refers to as high definition sound... When we left the hospital we drove around Portland and its suburbs for a while. ( went to peddlerspack in Beaverton (nice store, nice people working in it) and scrapattack ( not worth bothering to go back to) and the craftwarehouse in that town. funny thing happened while we was driving around, i could recognize and hear part of one of the songs playing in the truck... the funny part to me is its an old johnny cash song. i was sitting there and all the sudden i could hear it clearly burn burn burn, and the flames went higher. maybe something like burn burn burn in the ring of fire? ( something like that) another thing i noticed was that his music had a lot of low tones pops and taps types noises, and it was recognizable to me as "music" I didn't think this would happen for a long time yet. Saturday on the way home we stopped in Salem at StampinCatsStudio? ( may have to look that one up) that is a nice small store too, everyone working in it was so friendly. Paperzone, ( which seems a little bigger then the Portland store), stopped by the craftwarehouse in that city and the sportsman's warehouse too. So, i have a nice little pile of new rubber to play with. and came home to find my elyzbells waiting for me too... now all i have to do is steal some time to play today inbetween laundry.

Yesterdays Valentines cards

that swirl you see is heat embossed colorbox fluid chalk ink ( lipstick red) on a transparency sheet ( hammermill inkjet kind) with detail clear embossing powder... the fourth technique challenge at the stamp shack is to do something different that you havent tried before with a transparency. I have up until this point only used stazon ink on mine but, i didnt have that in red ( only black brown and white) so, seeing as this worked for me i doubt i will buy any more colors of stazon because i hate the way it smells...

I thought it turned out pretty neat... the background ( wildhearts su) and the amour (also su from the mon ami set) are stamped with ruby red dye ink on very vanilla cardstock. the heart's up on a pop dot and matted with a scrap of river rock ( as is the cardbase it self) the Ribbons from May arts.

Now this one came together really fast, the sentiment ( Define your life SU) was a granted wish to me from Oregonstamper ( thanks Kitty!) and it was on the top of my pile of things to "put away" haha, i had printed out this SC160 sketch at splitcoast yesterday afternoon not knowing if i would ever get around to it and rather then cleaning i started making cards... :)

the printed paper is from Bo Bunny Press ( velvet paisley) and is double sided. the textured cardstocks are from Bazzill, the chipboard flowers are from Heidi Swapp. the pearls in the centers are from MM. the fiber is unknown, and the mini brads are from Lasting Impressions. so the whole things 5 x 7 in real life.

It's snowed here all day and (still snowing) supposed to do this for the next 4 or 5 days in a row... IE every time we have to drive out of town it does this i think... gotta remember when i get to the only need one visit a year point to make sure they can do it when the weathers nice.

Stay Warm this weekend!

Puppy Love

One of these sweet baby girls will be ours... :) ( we get to go pick next weekend as i have an ear appointment this weekend)

They came a little early as there were more then the ultra sound said there would be. only one of the black ones is a female, then all four of the yellow ones are females and the other blacks are males.

New Mama. ( gives you a nice perspective on how tiny they are eh?)

okay so here's a round of PINK cigars... ( don't smoke them indoors! )

The Puppies were born!

We've been on a waiting list for a female (black) lab puppy since we got Storm last spring. So today we were told by the breeders that the batch of puppies born there is only one black one, but 4 yellow ones in the litter, and one person who was ahead of us on the list is holding out for a black one, so we get third pick of the yellow females. So, this is exciting. I have an ear appointment this coming friday so, we cant go to CA to meet the puppies till the weekend after, but we've never seen them this small before either, so I'm for sure going to take a camera. ( Oh, it will be months before we can bring her home, but its cool to think we all get to meet her before that) :) oh yeah on the hearing front Ive decided one of my favorite sounds is Laughter. I instantly know what that is as soon as i hear it, even on t.v shows that may be playing that I'm not watching. so that is interesting to me that some sounds i am knowing what they are without looking...

Wine a Little... You'll Feel Better! ;)

Hee hee... We actually have a pot holder in the kitchen with that sentiment on it... We give a lot of wine bottles as Gifts, so this was done with some of the scraps from the first card in this post...

I did this without any wine bottles in the hobby room so, it turned out a little BIG but, will still work i think tied to a bottle. the Cheers ( SU fancy flexible phrases is stamped with Palette Noir black on shimmery white cardstock, the printed paper is sewn to some Bazzill green scraps, the bottle of white and the grape vine trim are die cut stickers that match the printed paper. (Its double sided and shimmery) think the mfg is Reminisce ( but that could very well be spelled wrong) ribbons are offray and brads and eyelet are unknown.

This one was also done with scraps. normally when i dangle a tag from a ribbon knot i pop dot it into place "just so" but, this one is a free dangling card. the sentiment is a diecut sticker. the cardstocks are bazzill. its 4X6 in real life.

This is what i cut the paper up for... Its for DH's b-day next month ( maybe ) I may come up with something like better and i have a month to think about it. the sentiment is a sticker and it had rounded corners but much smaller then my punch so i ended up punching the sticker too so all the layers would work. the ( think its Inkadinkado) wine Sketch image is stamped with palette noir on shimmery white and colored with SU markers. There's some every popular tea dye distress ink on the edges too...

this ones 5X7 in real life.

Played in the snow all afternoon...

So, I fully intended to start on my Valentines today since i took the day off... But i had this stamp set ( which i have never played with before) on the edge of my table. So i started out with a sheet of Su Glossy white cardstock ( that i cut into quarters) This was the first attempt. I stamped the large snowflake with Ranger clear resist ink on the white glossy then heat set it and rubbed some color box fluid chalk ink ( Ice blue) and some Versamagic aspen mist dew drop ink over the top of it. ( the dew drops chalk ink does not seem to stain or settle very well on the glossy it rubs almost completely off) this was very subtle looking and not quite what i was looking for but, i do love the colors of this. so then i stamped the snowflake again over the top of it all with a chalk ink in Prussian Blue. The Hero Arts Delight word border was stamped with versamark then heat embossed with Ranger Seafoam White powder. The mat on this is blue bayou and the pale blue is Soft Sky. the photo corners i ( think could be heidi swapp) and the little pearls are from MM. this is an a-2 sized card.

This was the second try and on this one, i had some of that Prussian blue ink left on the stamp and just started randomly stamping the glossy with it. so these are 2nd, third, fourth generation images and so on and so on. The mat on it is Not Quite Navy, the Soft Sky cardstock has the Fine Lace background stamped on it with Not Quite Navy ink and the mat of that is Blue Bayou. the brads are unknown, the Stampendous Enjoy is stamped with versamark on blue bayou and heat embossed with seafoam white powder then punched with an Martha Stewart tag punch. the silver thread is the old style ( unravels) from SU and the blue satin ribbon was an ebay seller rak. the White columns card base is from Neenah. Its 6 inches Square in real life.

Since the first attempt the background snowflakes did not pop the way i had thought they would this time i tried stamping them in versamark then heat embossing them in the seafoam white. so when i got to the rub some chalk ink on the glossy part those white snowflakes turned pale blue and aqua. ( still not quite what I was hoping for) I then over stamped the snowflakes in Prussian Blue and heat set it all, the mat is Blue Bayou and trimmed with mini pinking deco scissors, the card base is Soft Sky and the ribbon is unknown, the Sparkle crystals are from Heidi Swapp. this one is also a-2 in size. The sentiment of this one is from SU also and done in Palette Noir Black.

ah ha i figured that resist pad out, you gotta go dark and bold...

this was the last quarter and instead of using the chalk ink pads i switched over to dye pads. the Vibrant blue is Nick Bantock Cerulean Azure and the second color is Not Quite Navy. The mat is Shimmery White and the sentiment is stamped on a large su oval punchie of that with Not Quite Navy also. ( which ended up being too pale when it dried) I added some clear stickles glitter glue to the snowflakes and then the Black for Drama. the Black ribbon is from May Arts, the Pearl mini brads are from Lasting Impressions and the Black linen cardbase is from Neenah. the tealish blue mat is (really flimsy stuff) that came in a huge pack from Costco a long time ago. ( its only good for mats) This one is 5X7 in real life. tfl.