Simplicity in Purple

A simple thank you card for a co-worker that has helped me in my journey to learning a new job. The large flower stamp is by Stampendous. Thank you sentiment is Penny Black circa 2003.

Another bee card. This timed I used the honeycomb embossing folder. I wish you could see the detail on the white diecut beneath the bee. I used an EF that has little bees on it! View it on my Pinterest board to see it clearly. http://www.pinterest.com/jackaroojrt/inventory-embossing-folders/

Ink the Town Red

Last weekend I pulled out my stash and inked up stamps that had never seen ink before. One of those was my Hero Arts Large Blossom stamp. I inked it up and went to town with the red and white. The background paper was stamped with a flower from a Stampendous set. You can check out my Pinterest boards for specifics on stamps. http://www.pinterest.com/jackaroojrt/inventory-stamps/

Last Crop At Archiver's

I worked three years as an associate and instructor at Archiver's in Raleigh, N.C. The time spent there was an inspiration and joy! The customers and fellow associates are my family in the craft world! Alas, the company declared bankruptcy and closed all stores. Wahhhh!! :( In true style, we held an employee crop for past and present employees complete with potluck snacks and a trip to Macaroni Grill for supper. So hard to believe we can never walk through those doors again. These are three of the cards I made during that crop. The butterfly die is by Quickutz. The green card used a digital graphic image that I printed and trimmed. Any specific questions on products used, will be glad to answer!

Sea Turtle

I love finding digital images from Pinterest. I am able to re-size them, print multiples on one page. Fun! I found this image on a friend's tattoo board! Printed, cut with oval Cutterbee frame, colored with Copics. Sponged over entire image, Copics and all, with Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass. Matted image on black. I used a stamping wheel stamp that I had removed from the wheel to stamp with Versamark on the green card base. Punched starfish and colored with Copics and added bling. The seaweed of course is the branch punch. Bubbles are covered in Glossy Accents. With the exception of printing the image, everything was already on hand. Linking to Shopping Our Stash Challenge #138 - Use something shiny...that's my glossy accents. Ok, maybe a small stretch, lol!

Christmas Chickadee

This is a digital image from Fred She Said. I printed it in color, ran through an embossing folder, and sponged brown distress ink over it all. The image was then cut out with Spellbinders label. The holiday greeting on the burgundy label was inked with Versamark and heated with clear embossing powder. DP is from My Mind's Eye - All is Bright. I love quatre foil! Finished off with a couple of pine branch punches to match the green in image.

I'm back!

Cute digi stamp from Whipper Snapper. The paper is from Reminisce, ribbon from Michaels, tag computer generated.

I have entered this in the following challenges:

Christmas Challenge's polar bears and penquins
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com