Hi Stampers,

This was the Technique last Monday over on Splitcoast. I love to display my cards and this is the perfect way.

I used Church People and embossed it with Antiquities, the sentiment is also embossed. The swirls are cut out with Spellbinders dies with gold cardstock. For the stop in the bottom center I glue 3 of the flowers together that I cut with a die. In the center of the flower is a gold brad.

Our island had a arts & craft fair today and Sherree & I had a table. It was alot of fun even though we didn't sell much (nobody did though). This economy is getting depressing:( Lexy got to play the tamborine with the band, and Jim & Lexy both tried their hand at the pottery wheel.

Thanks for stopping by.

Jill

Water birds

I love this flower medallion from Sparkle n Sprinkle, it has so many possibilities. Here is one that I stamped and embossed three different times and cut out different sections of it. It's a clean layout that I really like as well.















I love to watch the water birds as they feed. We have a pond just behind our house and right now at dawn the snowy egrets feed. They fly over the water dragging their feet and scooping up the fish. I've gone out the last couple of morning to photograph them. I haven't found the right setting for my camera though and they aren't clear pictures, but I still like them. I looked up some quotes to put on them.

Jill

Acrylic Smash Violin

Here's another card using the same technique. Music Expressions from SU is the stamp set I chose for this one. I used Gold, Lime Green, and Royal Fushia paints on the acrylic. The DS paper is from SU, layered on Soft Suede. I picked out an old sketch from Splitcoast as well for the layout.















Jim recently got a new kayak and we
went out in the bay. It was a beautiful day and a good tide.

Have a great weekend:)
Jill

Compass Rose

I wanted to make another card with the compass rose, and I had these three strips of cardstock (Certainly Celery, Night of Navy and Really Rust) sitting on my desk. The sentiment stamped one was left over from the other card I made, and I liked the look of the colors together, so went from there. The base is Really Rust cardstock. The compass is stamped on Kraft and cut out, then stamped on yellow and the star is cut out and attached with the brad, the whole compass is on dimensionals.
The sentiment is embossed with White Detail.










Today I took Little Bug out of his cage and the cat was quick to observe his freedom. They enjoyed sniffing, and everyone survived just fine.


Happy Day,
Jill

Fall Boots

The new technique last week on Splitcoast was Acrylic Smash. Go check it out here. I used a green and gold acrylic paint, and ran the left side of the panel through the Cuttlebug, and tied the Choc. Chip Satin Ribbon. The leaves (SU) are stamped with Brown Stazon are. The sentiment is an old retired SU set. For the background I used Crushed Curry, I distressed it and layered it on Choc Chip. The base is Kiwi Kiss.


Mandy got some new boots and is almost taller than her little sister with them:) WOW!!! look at those things! lol

Have a great day:)

Reptiles

As I was loading these pictures I noticed they are both reptiles. I made this card again using my pieces of scrap designer papers. but this time I changed up the layout some. I also added some criss cross stitching. I just used an Always Artichoke marker and made the x's. Then I ran it through the Cuttlebug folder and sponged the edges with Always Artichoke. The turtle is from Natures Nest (SU) and I used an aqua painter over the shell to pull some of the ink color around.


The other night we were out walking and came back right at dark and as I was coming up the front steps I found this friend waiting for us. Mandy used to pick up snakes without much hesitation, but this time Jim had to pick it up first and had it to her. It was a little red rat snake. They took around to the back yard and let it go in one of the trees.

Jill