Bleach & Radiant Pearls

My most favorite medium to use ever... is Radiant Pearls. I love the stuff. It has qualities of oil paints and watercolors, I think the best from both. It is also shimmery, I really like that too. So, if I have the time, I like to make me some projects that I can use the RP on. One of my fav stamps is from Stampendous, it was there floral line. They made these gigantic stamps that had all of the flowers on. I collected as many of them as I could. To make these two cards, here is what I did.

First, I stamped the image in versamark, on black paper and embossed in black embossing powder. Next, I took one of those watercolor brushes, I believe they are called aqua brushes, I filled mine with bleach and then I painted inside all of the embossing. Some areas I wanted lighter and some I wanted darker, you just have to apply more bleach to those areas, wait until it drys, then go over it again to get the most lift that you can. Be careful with your papers, as black doesn't always bleach up to white. SU's kinda goes orange. but, I applied lots of layers of bleach and got mine pretty white. I needed to let it dry then, I let mine dry for at least a day. So if you do it before bedtime, its pretty ready to go the next day.

Then, use your RPs! Too bad when you scan it you can't see the different colors in them. In the rose, there are 3 different colors of red used, plus 3 different colors of green. The calla lilly card has two different colors of white, plus purple in it and 3 other colors of green.

Anyways, I thought they would be good sympathy cards, as I always need those dang cards and I run out of ideas for them! The Rose card, I mounted on glossy red, and the Calla Lilly card, I mounted on shimmery white, before mounting both on black again.

Hope you enjoy!

Happy Mother's Day to you!!

I worked with my brown challenge that I have, and copied a really cool card from my friend Joani. She did the cutest card with a cupcake. I took her card, turned it on its side, made my circles a little larger and punched holes in them.
I sponged around them with brown and the brown panel in the background is done using my cuttlebug, I used a textured template with a floral design on it. I sponged it in brown too, and tied it all with a organdy ribbon.
Happy Mother's Day to you all!!

My Brown Struggle

How can you not love this little bear???
My pink and brown...

My Hoot swap, I tried to make the second one look

as if he was sticking his head out of the trees and

all you can see was his head.. He is popped up with dots

maybe i should have put his feet on the trunk..

I know, it is so late, but I have to post! I've been busy again doing trading cards...

and cleaning my creation room! One day I will have to take a picture and show

you where I work. But I need to fix a few things first to make it picture worthy!

I have such a problem with brown. I try to sign up for swaps that I will have

to use the color. I SOOOOO hate brown. I dislike pink too, and blue. I know, I know

those are things I shouldn't tell people. But, really, brown is yucky.

So I joined these swaps to use the color. Hopefully they look ok. And please

don't hold it against me that I don't do brown!!

Trading Cards/ Recipes

My alphabet trading cards, J,K & L

4 more recipe cards...

Remember this swap I was in? Well, everyone had made their cards now

and you can go and view them and even vote for the one you think

did the best job with the supplies at hand! Go to: Cards Made By Hand on the Yuku board

there should be a link on the side of here to take you there!


Morning to you!! I got some much needed trading cards finished yesterday. I am in an alphabet swap with the trading cards. You make two that depict the letter, and then you have partners that you mail to. Its a different partner every time. I do that with my Just Cards Yuku group. So here are three of my swaps, J, K and L. My favorite is the jeans pocket.

The other two are recipes that I made for my mom's book. Only 24 more to go!!

What I did. I took some of my favorite recipes. I typed them up on Word, then I printed them off on random bazzill paper. Then, for some I went to the local scrap store, but for most of them, I just looked in my stash. I looked for 3 coordinating designer papers and one more Bazzill that would match. Then, depending on the papers and the recipe, I designed around that.

It goes super fast! Remember to check the Yuku board!!

A "little behind"

I am so behind in posting, so here is a "little behind" for you!! Hope you like her, I thought she was so cute. My youngest has a thing for monkeys, apes...so I found her, I believe she is from Mostly Animals, but I don't know if they are even in business anymore!
I made them to trade with someone in trading cards. I stamped them on glossy paper and inked them up with daubers, not being careful so I could blend the colors. I just blended with my
finger, as I was too lazy to look for a blender!! It worked... Then I dipped the whole card into clear embossing powder and embossed the card several times so that it has a thick coat of clear all over it. I mounted them on SU textured cardstock.
I've been busy making more things, trying like crazy to finish my mom's recipe book... I made 12 more recipes, and still going!! I'll try to post some later! Mother's Day is coming fast!!

Share from Hunter

Hunter came home from school with this picture. Now I know your saying, all of our kids color pictures right? Well, at his school, they took art, music and things like that away. My oldest is in 6th grade, and they have never used a box of crayons yet. So, this year, at the end of the year, there is what? 4 weeks left of school? She is bringing out color pictures for them. He is in third grade and this is the first time, they have been doing this. I can't tell you how excited the kids are to make something, even if it is just coloring. (and that is a such a shame, not to mention waste...) Anyways, Hunter colors this boot. He has 16 crayons. I am really pleased with what he did!! He did shading and everything. He was really pleased with his picture too, he said, mom, to get different colors, I don't press hard, or I do press hard. I am glad he has a sense of color, and looks to me like talent too!! (Proud Momma!)

Long week away!

It has been a very stressful week. To end my stress, I made these little purses!

They are on certainly celery cardstock, and I stamped on them with the Trendy Trees stamp

set from Stampin Up. I made little tags to tie on them. I made them for my

stamp club, that is coming up this month. They were really fun to make

and I got to put a treat inside of them!

This was part of my stress. Jade had to make a pinata for his history class... it is for Cinco de Mayo. Everyone got to make pinata's and they are hanging them up around the school.

Jade has a thing for flags, so he made his pinata look sorta like our flag...it became a sorta

when he found out how hard it was to make stars and things! Mom was

stressed, because she didn't want to end up doing the project for him, so he spent many

long hours at the table doing it. I think in the end it turned out really well!

He is happy with it.

This is another little stress man. He started baseball. I took him to his first game where he was suppost to pitch. He was nervous, me too, then we got a phone call from the Hubby. His car was broke and could I go get him? So... I left Hunter with his baseball team, warming up, drove like a mad woman to another town to get hubby, drove like crazy back, to make it in time to see them start the game. Son comes over to mom, guess what? He got hit in the face at warm ups! Now something you should know about Hunter. He doesn't have pain receptors, or if he does, they don't work. His little face was swelling, but he couldn't tell me where he was hit. He assures me that he can play ball though. So he goes out. Second inning when he is coming in from field, his face is sagging on one side. Talk about having a heart attack on the spot! Luckily, there was a orthodontist dad, at the game! He said that if we hit the nerve at the bottom of the jaw, that that could happen. Well, we weren't sure... but when we got home, motrin, sleep, the next morning, he came up to me. Still a little swollen, but you could see the stitches from the ball were on his lower jaw. Thankfully, today, he is all better!!

I should probably mention too, that my dad had surgery in the middle of all of this, and I was up at the hospital with him. Thankfully, he too is all right and at home recouping.

Now for me to recoup!!!

I plan to see a movie! Scrapbook! Stamp! Watercolor! And anything else I want to do

today! How's that??