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This is a card I made for Rissa. She's havin' a baby soon!(She conceived on vacation at our house, heehee). Seems like yesterday I was living with her when she was a little one. We had SO much fun. She's going to make THE best Mommy, ever; Chris's strong family roots make him the perfect Daddy, too. I'm so lucky to have such great family (and I expect regular baby pics in the mail!) ;-)
Mel
It's out of season (I think) but you never know, we may see a whale in Uclulet. One visiting for Christmas vacation, maybe? If not, we're sure to see some stormy weather--From INSIDE :-)This card was done with the shaving cream technique which is SO easy: you just put shaving cream on a plate, put drops of re-inker on it and swirl it around; then, you put your paper on top. All that's left to do is wipe it off and let dry (Though, if you use super moisturizing stuff like I did, you'll wait a lifetime for it to dry and adhesives will shun it forever. I used crystal effects, 'cause glue dots wouldn't stick--and they stick to ANYthing)
Esther & Jay don't have my blog yet either ;0)
This is their Christmas card using the same stamp as Denise's. Just goes to show you how different techniques can create completely antithetical looks.
Charles picked the colours. The Scan is an odd one; the ribbon is actually a light Burgundy (as are the eyelets and the thin mat). You can't see it in the scan, but the white area is textured and has dazzling diamonds sparkling all over it (adhered with heat'n'stick powder). Feels Christmas-y.
We're looking forward to visiting with Charles's family after our romantic birthday get-away in Ucluelet visit this link to see our cabin 3:
http://www.thecabins.ca/
Wish we were loaded, so we could fly all my family from Ontario and have a BIG party there! (after our three days alone, of course) ;-)
Mel
This isn't very Christmas-y but I thought I'd be non-traditional this year--just for Kim. She's always inspiring me with her card creations. (Tho' she's unnaturally modest).
--You can see her gallery on spitcoast under twingirls; my splitcoast name is stampztoomuch.
I created a new custom spectrum pad for this card (out of an older one that had colours I didn't love). The sets are new sellabration sets called "Delight in Life" (flowers) and "So Very." Demonstrators got to purchase them early. Woo hoooo, (This year's sets are way funkier than last year's, so I couldn't resist) :-) All of the details on here are embossed and the flowers have beads in the centers. The flowers are on pop-up glue dots. (My love for glue dots could be considered an addiction, but who's telling?).
Kim seemed to like her card, but in my pre-girl-party rush I forgot to sign the inside (Had a whole cheesey speech planned, cause Kim is one of those amazing friends). She looked inside the card and we had a huge laugh: "outside: "so loved;" inside: "NOT!" She let me have it back to write in it, lol. Me S.m.r.t.
:-) Mel
This is a birthday card I made for Phil (Charles's sister Denise's boyfriend; he's a sweety). It combines four sets: down to business, alphabits, happy everything, and be happy. I love how some of the sets seem girly (like 'be happy') but have elements that work with anything. 
This week I discovered the joy of scanning! Who'da'- thunk'it? (Everyone else, I imagine) ;-) 
An example of a "one of" art card with a water colour nude (scanned and resized version of my original sketch) and stamped background (Paisley by Stampin' Up).
The figure study is one of my favourite art genres. Watercolour pencil crayons are perhaps my favourite medium; they offer control, a sketch-like texture, and yet let you add the fluidity of water after you are satisfied with a sketch, love the medium sighhhhhhh...
Mel
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BLOGS of My Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers 2:
I'm not currently working with any design teams or blogs. Usually, just free-wheeling it! Though I do participate as a design team guest from time to time.
I sometimes receive product as part of being on design teams, but you can be assured that I will never promote a product that I do not use and truly enjoy.
These are some Companies/Blogs that have gifted me
product for promotional purposes (directly/indirectly):
Angel's Landing; Caardvarks; Clear & Simple Stamps; Core'dinations; Cuttlebug Challenge Blog; Creative Cuts & More; EK success; Fred She Said; Hero Arts; Inkadinkado; Innovative Stamp Creations; Just Rite Stampers; May Arts Ribbon; Mo's Digital Pencil; My Favorite Things; Little Paper Shop; Paper Temptress; ProvoCraft; Paper Garden Projects; Purple Onion Designs; Sakura; Skipping Stones Designs; Squigglefly; Unity Stamp Co.
I also shop from many of these companies out of my shallow pocket... ;o) I hope I haven't missed any, but if you are wondering if a post is "sponsored" or not, basically the give-away is if I am on the design team (or have been) full-time or blogging as a guest, or if I say that someone has sent me something to use.
I will make every effort to disclose when I'm helping to promote something, just so's ya know.
Thanks for stopping in!
:o)
Mel
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