I actually stamped today!!
AND I actually got a card done!
Yes, only ONE card.
Between dropping V off at school then picking her up, running an errand for my mom, dealing with a miserable 3-year-old doing a little house cleaning (why I felt I NEEDED to really clean the stove top today is beyond me....)and chasing that d**n cat out of my studio - I'm impressed that I got even the ONE done!
Speaking of the cat - here's a pic of her that I took today:
**notice the sock in her bed?? This cat has a thing for socks. She just goes nuts and attacks them whenever they're left out. And this one she appears to have taken full possession of LOL**
I REALLY think we need to come up with a new name for her. I refuse to call her "Princess Sparkles" (more often it's "that d**n cat" LOL) and the girls don't even call her that anymore either - they just call her "kitty". We need a normal name for her - any suggestions??
OK on to the card - as some of y'all know tonight is release night over at All That Scraps - all the November stamps will be up right away actually (10pm EST is when they go on sale!) and one of those sets is by me - called Christmas Card Greetings.
So I definitely had to make at least one sample using my new set - and had to use some of the other soon-to-be-released stamps - I just had a heckuva time trying to choose which stamps to use!
I decided to go with the Holiday Swiss Pixies - so here's the first card I've finished so far:
I also pulled out all my new My Mind's Eye Colorful Christmas papers and whatnot that I ordered weeks ago - it's been sitting in the box it arrived in ever since so I was happy to finally pull it out and use it!
This card also took forever b/c it's been HOW long since I last stamped?? It feels like forever - but it's been a good couple of weeks - maybe more......so yeah things just weren't working like they usually do (more proof that one needs to stamp OFTEN! *grin*).
I stamped this Swiss Pixie onto CCD White cardstock that I die cut in a circle and colored her in with Copics before I masked her and airbrushed the green around her.
COPICS USED:
E50, E51, R20, E25, E27, R39, YG25, R83, BG05, BG07, N1.
And then of course I had to bling her up with a bunch of Stickles.
The sentiment from the Christmas Card Greetings set was stamped onto a circle of pink cardstock that I trimmed with my paper trimmer before adhering it below the Swiss Pixie.
I added flower and felt snowflake from my stash that I attached with a MME brad.
The little bauble-thingies (the name of them escapes me at the moment) in the bottom right corner of the card are from Stamping Bella.
For the inside of the card I added more MME patterned paper along with a piece of white cardstock I die cut with one of my nestabilities dies.
I finished it off by stamping one of the (many!) companion sentiments from the Christmas Card Greetings set and that was it!
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Oh and another update on my mom - she's doing fine. She's got a full cast on - all the way up to her knee and she can't put any pressure on her foot for the next two weeks. So she's hopping on one foot prepping and baking and catering and all that as usual (if you knew my mom this wouldn't surprise you). She definitely has to take time out to rest and DOES. Now that she HAS to maybe we'll finally get the chance for me to do her nails and pamper her a bit (since a pedicure is no longer an option - at least for a good while) as she's been wanting to get her nails done for weeks now and has just been too busy.
