HELLO THERE!!

Hi all!!  It's been a busy, busy week - sorry my blog has been quiet the last week!  Today, I wanted to pop in real quick and just share a card I made last week.  I didn't make this card for a challenge or anything - just wanted to be crafty and this is what I came up with.  I did actually give this to a friend of mine.

I was in the mood to use my Distress Inks ( who am I kidding, I am always in the mood for DI).  I took an older background Paisley stamp from SU! and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  Then, I took Ripe Persimmon, Peacock Feathers, and Wild Honey, and blended that onto my background.  So fun, and gives such an awesome look.  I stamped out my sentiment "Hello There" from the Hey Day Sentiments set from Studio Calico.  I first stamped it in Butter Bar Midtone ink from Hero Arts - then stamped it again with Gray Flannel Memento Ink.  The gray ink turned a greenish color - which I didn't intend to do - but it turned out fine.  I then added some ribbon from SU! and a dimensional flower sticker from Sassafrass.  I wanted a different element for my sentiment instead of just placing it onto my card panel - so I took out some  Memo Pins from Tim Holtz - and it added that "something" that I was looking for.  I added my card panel to my card base with is a A2 size which is Summer Sunrise from PTI.  

Turned out cute, I think.  Hope your weekend was a good one!!

Tattered Florals

Hi all!  'Tis me again.  Can you believe the weekend is among us again!!  YEA!!! 

I don't believe I have shared this card with all of you.  I looked back at my previous posts and didn't see this one, and wanted to share it with all of you.  One of my favorite dies is the Tattered Florals Die by Tim Holtz.  It is a wonderful die.  Anything Tim Holtz is awesome though, don't you agree?? 

 

I also used one of the adorable banners from Lawn Fawn stamp set "Bannerific" .  I just {heart} Lawn Fawn Stamps.  They are so much fun, and so versatile.  I have only been a fan for just a few months, but once I discovered them, I grew into a fast fan of theirs.  :)  Well, tomorrow night I will be attending my first SU! workshop in a long while.  My Demo has gone through lots of things the last few months, and finally has had the chance to have a gathering.  Just in time too!  We get the new 2011-2012 Ideal Book and Catalog.  I have been looking forward to this for two weeks!!  I am tellin' ya, it doesn't take much to make me happy, REALLY!  :o)  I hope all of you have a nice weekend where ever you are in the world!!  Do something that makes you happy!!  That's what it is all about!!  :)

~~Kari~~

Good Tues. Eve

Back again with another post this evening- Hope all of you are well this evening.  I wanted to get in a post for you all before heading to bed.  It seems I have a pattern lately.  I am posting before heading off to bed.  I tell ya- it seems that is the only time right now that I have to do it- **oh**, but it brings me so much joy.  I am not sure who all follows me on here regularly- but I always wanted to post fresh new things, regardless if it is one, or 100 people reading this blog.  I would like to revisit a previous post I did around the holidays- because I didn't get any feedback good or bad on "Who's my audience".  I am still curious to know who all of you are, and who reads and follows my blog.  I will leave that for another night though.  I did a few "tests" if you will on my camcorder this afternoon, and my hope is I will have a full complete video to share with you in the next two weeks.  I need to get some conversion lenses for my Creative Vado HD camcorder so I may do videos that I have to focus real close so you can see my cards, and if I do haul videos, you would be able to see what I get from time to time, and the details of the haul.  I have to get a macro lens for that, so I am looking into that.  OK- enough of the blabbing on- how about a colorful card!!

I don't know if you all will notice, but there is something a little bit different in my photos.....YES- I finally have a watermark now!!  I am so happy!!  It is the little things that make me happy.  I am lucky to have a husband that is a genius in computers.  Bless his heart- I have been asking for weeks now, and finally I have one!  OH!  back to the card at hand.  I made this card for a co-worker of mine- as she got a "employee of the month" nomination and pin for the month we were closing out of.  I try and make cards for my co- workers, that something special and unexpected to have from me and they can look at it and it reminds them of why they deserved the recognition.  I took a page out of Tim Holtz, who taught Jennifer McGuire, who taught her audience in her "Thinking Inking" online "class" on YouTube.  The background of this card is using the Distress Inks and water.  I just made a "pool" of ink on my craft sheet from Ranger, and then spritzed water and then inked up my flourish background stamp, and this is what it comes out looking like- watercolor sort of effect.  Pretty neat.  I love those online classes- you all should check them out on YouTube.    She is a wonderful teacher!!- Well that is enough out of me tonight!!  Till next time we meet!!  :o)

Stay Inspired!!