T Stands for Tuesday

Today I'm drinking Cucumber Water. It tastes even more refreshing since the weather is warm and muggy. The glass has a bamboo design on it. I am very fond of Tiki Room themed items lol. Head over to Bleubeard & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover Blog for more Tasty Beverages.

Simply Jane Bookmark

A bookmark or embellishment (inspired by this bookmark by Betsy Veldman), using the Papertrey Ink set Simply Jane.  The front is stamped with Wendy Vecchi Orange Blossom and Cornflower Blue Archival Inks by Ranger.

In order to make the cut into a bookmark, I glued some pieces of an old receipt across the top. Then I glued two more die cuts to the top of each piece (without the receipt pieces). With Papertrey Ink cardstock, I will only use two cuts instead of three next time.

I stamped the bouquet on the back with Versamark just to make it more versatile. Since Simon Says it's an Anything Goes challenge, I decided to join in with this.

A Touch of Vellum

Vellum is one of the things I ought to use more often, so I'm entering it in the Simon Says I Ought to Use This More Often Challenge (I think I read the rules correctly and can enter up to 5 times) and in the Make It Monday #169: Vellum Overlays.

The cut is from Damask Decor Cricut cartridge (card option), The cardbase is Papertrey Ink Stamper's Select White, the vellum is from Papertrey Ink and the sentiment is Papertrey Ink's Pretty Peonies stamp set.

Snappin' Good Time

There were so many possibilities for the  Simon Says I Ought to Use This More challenge, so I did a few of them for this card. I don't recall ever making a card base with my Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz cardstock, and it's been a few years since I used my Cricut Imagine (this image is from the Imagine More Cards cartridge). I had to use Stickles which I use regularly, but I really love them so I used them again.

I decided to try a thicker fun foam to make stamps from dies. This stamp is made with 3 mm fun foam with my Strip Stitch die. And I used my neglected Seedless Preserves Distress Ink to stamp

And rather than gluing my stamp to a piece of plastic packaging, I used my Club Scrap Mount-It glue (a re-positional tacky glue) so I can just put it on acrylic blocks (and store it on plastic page protectors in a notebook).

WOYWW 264

This week I dyed with something other than Kool-Aid for the first time, and I have to say I am pleased with the results. The skein on the left is a 2 ply (1 corriedale and 1 romney) and the other two are 4-ply cable yarns (2 2-plys are then respun together). I love how the dye was absorbed differently by each type of wool (but I have no idea which is which lol).

I've been carving some stamps. Erasers are sooo easy, but I decided to try something different. I never saw clear blocks before. This one was labelled easy carve (not compared to erasers lol). I stamp the progress as I go, in this case the back side of a Jo-Ann Fabric flyer.  The purple mice I have out so I can figure out what to do with it. I usually have to mull things over.

I finished my Sending You Sunshine card, and thanks to Nikki C, I got the glitter to show up in the photograph.

It even glows in the dark : ). The details can be read here.

I've also made some headway on the organizational front. I went through about 4 feet of patterned paper and cardstock and managed to find 4 inches I can part with lol. The pads I've decided to keep, I  labelled on the adhesive side with a sharpie so it's easier to find what I'm looking for.  I still have about 2 feet of paper pads to sort through and a lot of loose paper squirreled away in pizza boxes (ones that never had a pizza near them).

To see more crafty spaces around the world, head over to Julia's Stamping Ground : ).

Tea Stands for Tuesday

I finally had a beverage, some down time and a camera so I can do a Tea Stands for Tuesday with my friend Elizabeth.  I love iced tea (plain tea, no sugar which has now become unsweetened tea in most restaurants). And when my $1's worth is done, I use the insulated cup for water for the rest of the day, especially in the summer.  I was raised on sweet tea, but it's just too sweet for me now.

I am trying to carve a stamp out of a new to me material (clear) that is labelled easy to carve. Erasers are easy to carve (the little pink rectangle which I made into a mouse stamp in about 5 minutes. The clear stuff I'm carving on my crafty cutting board so I don't gauge my nonstick mat and I've been at it for over 45 minutes and only carved about a sixth but safety first : ).

Sending You Sunshine card

I was inspired by the sentiment, so I made a jar full of sunshine.for Simon Says Anything Goes challenge.

The jar was cut from Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select White cardstock using the Friendship Jar die, and covered with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink. Then the jar was flipped over and used as a mask to brush Memento Dandylion ink onto the cardbase.

Then the jar was coated with a thick layer of Glow in the Dark Glitter glue. It curled for Scotland whilst it was wet, but dried beautifully. And it dried transparent so it doesn't affect the ink color.

The Jar lid was used to mop up a puddle of Tumbled Glass Distress Ink (and set aside to dry for a while). The Tag-its #3 sentiment was stamped onto a 1 3/4" circle. The frame from the set was stamped with Mustard Yellow Distress Ink, the sentiment was stamped with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink and edged with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

Updated to add this picture of the card in the dark (after it had been exposed to light for about 20 minutes) Not power source bright, but definitely there  ).