What a Find!!!

What a find my DH found....he gave me 20 yes that is TWENTY music boxes that I can add some artwork to! He was so excited that he phoned to make sure I could use them. I am showing the oval shape today and I'll show the larger wooden style tomorrow.
This is the oval music box. It is 8 inches long by 5.5 inches wide and about 2.5 inches high. Not at all small. The stamp is used is from Me and Carrie Lou and it is 3.5 in. by 4.5in. stamp so you can see there is loads of space to work with.I embossed the image with Marcasite Black powder that gives such a wonderful sparkle to the design. I used Twinkling H2Os to color. This is one of my favorite stamps...it is just so detailed. For this one I left the BG untouched.

On this second version I used the same stamp but treated it with Gold Detail embossing powder and different Twinkles.

I used a lot more colors on this image and also treated the BG with Distress Inks Broken China and Frayed Burlap added using a sponge.

I collect music boxes so I'll keep one but all the rest are going to family and special friends at Christmas time. I am just so excited. Everyone expects something handmade but these will be special. I am even thinking I could make new images for them to change each year...talk about advanced planning. You will see more of these before I finish them all but I will try to sneak a card in here and there but it will be hard. I love doing something like this...cards are great but this is just plain wonderful.

Talk later

Hugs

Heather

For My Guy IO Challenge

This is a twofer post. Impression Obsession has a challenge to make a card for a guy and at first I decided to make a card for when my husband travels and then it suddenly hit me that I had not made an anniversary card for him and tomorrow is our 24th anniversary. I don't know about the rest of you but I am always forgetting to make cards for my family until the last moment. So today I show you two cards made using the same stamp.

This first card is for my DH. I stamped the image in sepia from versafine and then colored it with Twinkling H2Os. I used 3 different colors of grey for both of the cards. This is Bazzill Textured paper. On this card I used Spellbinders Label Three in the largest size to get all the image.
I layered it on the darkest grey and cut around the edge to make the next layer. After I cut it I remember that I could have just traced the die and it would have been the correct size...slap myself silly for this one. The Happy Anniversary stamp is from the $ bin at Michaels. I embossed in detail black but colored the hearts with a red spica pen.

On the inside the romance came through with the hearts nestibilities. The small love stamp is embossed and colored with Twinks. I distressed the edges with Vintage Photo and Weathered Wood.

The second card is the slanted version. I stamped this one in black Onyx and this one was my favorite after it was colored but unfortunately I used my crooked eye and cut the image out on a very definite slant. Well, one cannot let that cause a throw out so artistic impulse took over and this slanted version was the result. I used the different brads to emphasize the slant. I didn't have a black sentiment frame so I used my marker to change the color from silver to black...it turned out great.

I really like the image stamped in black much better than the sepia color. On watercolor paper, the image comes through much clearer in black than the sepia especially for detailed images.

Now I have to go get supper ready...only DH and myself tonight...everyone else is busy. So again I hope everybody is having a wonderful weekend and spending time with family and friends.

Hugs

Heather

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To all my American pals I hope you all have a wonderful July 4th. May the weather be great for picnics, the water great for swimming and the parks ready for all the kids. I hope all your families make it home to be together and that you all have a
Happy July 4th!!!
Hugs
Heather

Whiff of Joy DT Call

This is the sketch for the DT call at Whiff of Joy. It is such a different sketch...the edge is wonderful to work with. I used this Sitting Willow image and used Twinkling H2Os to paint her. The paper I used is Whisper White (SU) and Light Blue (The Paper Company) and Teal (The Paper Company). The DP is from the Glitter slab from DCWV.

Both the strawberries , the sentiment and Willow are from the Summer stamp set. I found a doily the correct size and ran the Baja Breese ink pad across the top to show the design. I attached Willow and one strawberry with tape. I used my Medium Marvy Daisy punch and attached the strawberries to the flower base. The berries are colored in Garnet and I used a red spica pen on the dimples. The ribbon is Traditional Satin from Michaels.

To match the sentiment I decides to use Hearts on the inside. The Teal hearts were cut out of the teal paper after I had used the Paisley Impossibilities from Spellbinders. Both the hearts dies and the impressibility were run through my Wizard I ran the white ink pad across the hearts that were made of the impressabilited paper to show the design. On the edge of the base on the rieght I used the doily punch from Martha Stewart to add some decoration to the edge.

We are in the middle of a storm so I want to post this before I lose the power to do this.

Hugs

Heather

Me and Carrie Lou Sympathy

I needed a sympathy card and I wanted to used my new Twinkling H2Os so this is what I created. I used the Butterfly Impressionability on the Olive Green CS and ran Archival Moonlight White across to highlight the design. I attached this layer to a Red Purple The Paper Company Metallic paper before attaching to the white card base. To create the flower section I used my long rectangle scalloped Nestibility on the water color paper. I gold embossed the Violet Border stamp and then colored with H2Os using a water color brush. I used star dust Stickles in the center. The ribbon is from Michaels and of course I used my Bow Easy.

I love the inside. I made 2 Foliage Frames embossed then used the Moonlight White again to highlight. The sentiment stamp is from Inkadinkado.

I used only the center section of the violet border to create the center image.I am sending this to a lady who passed away on Tuesday. I think her family will appreciate it.

I heard nothing but groans this morning ...nobody wanted to go to work...yesterday felt like Saturday and they wanted to treat today like Sunday! Another great day to be retired. Last night was a total mess. The dogs all....12 of them (I included the pups) reacted to the fireworks . I never had so many dogs that wanted to sit on my lap or howl in my life. The older dogs have never liked them but they managed to teach this to the little pups as well. The only calm dog was the Mom...she just listened and kept on feeding. The fireworks were great but 30 minutes is a long time to be howled at. Love dogs but hate fireworks.

Must go take the dogs out so have a great day and have some stamping fun.

Hugs
Heather

Canada Day

To all my fellow Canadians

Happy Canada Day!
I hope you all have a wonderful time with family and friends. Our plan is simple...sleep, eat and play! I hope to play a bit with stamps since my order from Luminarte arrived yesterday. Such a treat....so many colors it is hard to decide what to use but I am sooooo very happy.
Hugs
Heather