Together Fishies and Metal

Less Is More Week 31 Metallic Colour has some beautiful entries, you have to check it out.

Everything in this card was based on the simple strip of metal sentiment.

I had it left over from my sister's wedding scrapbook I made about a year or so ago.

It needed a home.

The plane is colored in with a Fantastix and Brilliance Platinum Planet ink.

The windows are filled in with Glossy Accents.

I thought of "Finding Nemo" and these stamps were handy, 

so here we are. ;)

2 wittle fishies in the big blue ocean.

I have an embarrassing confession....

this movie made me cry.

Only at the end.

It was years ago...and it really upset me that Nemo was lost...my girls were little at the time.

You understand, don't you?

Unfortunately, we were in a theater.

They won't let me forget that....so I'm just going to put it out there. ;)

Reunions are so emotional...animated or not, don't you think?

Info:

Lawn Fawn Bon Voyage, BoBunny Barefoot and Bliss,Brilliance Platinum Planet,Fantastix,Ranger Glossy Accents,Martha Stewart ink,Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals,Staz on ink,Mark's Finest twine

CAS Christmas Card Colored with White Ink

I love stamping and embossing on black paper!  

I also love tall, skinny cards!

This card is a combination of challenges which inspired the final product.

I stamped the birch trees and sentiment in Versamark, and embossed with silver powder.  I had to use the image 1 1/2 times to reach the height of the card.

Then I "painted" the trees with white ink and a Fantastix that was recycled (I snipped off the ink that was there).

The branch  is cut out a bit to hang the wreath which was stamped with Versamark and embossed with copper powder.  

I used the end of a paint stick to apply the dots with white ink.

The following challenges were my inspiration:

~Papertrey's Make It Monday #25 has a tutorial video to show you how to color with white ink.

~Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #128 calls for Christmas projects.

~CAS-ual Fridays 13 

challenges you to make a 4X9 clean and simple card!

Hey, thanks for peeking in stampy friends. ;)

Info:

Papertrey Ink Wreath for All Seasons, Stampendous Birch Buddies, Fantastix, Versamark Ink, silver and copper embossing powder

Time is Fleeting ... Celebrate

"Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. " Isa 55:6

My husband has gone back to school.  It's so interesting and funny to hear what the college kids are like, 18 years since I was in that environment.  

Well, it is mostly funny, because he's a dad and looks at them from Dad's perspective. 

He gets furious when they wear shorts in 40 degree weather.

It irritates him to see them texting in class...

you get the idea. ;)

Anyway, back to time....

Did you know that many young people don't wear watches?

Why bother?

They use their phones to tell the time.

Such a little detail that I would've missed, but my husband catches.

 

Here is another Christmas card for

ODBD Stamping In Time: On Assignment Challenge(SNTODBD38).

I used ODBD Time.

I know the clock isn't complete.  

I did that on purpose. ;)

I wanted it to look like it was deteriorating,

JUST LIKE TIME.

Here are some details ....

My layout is inspired by Mojo Monday 199.

 

~I used office spiral clips to represent the scalloped border.

~The smaller circle is represented by a key tag.

~Large acrylic block used to stamp background.

~Scallop Circle used as a template for markings with Fantastix tool and Memento Ink

~Partially cut out the clock with Spellbinders' Scallop Circle using cutting plates from my smaller Ellison Tag-A-Long which I lined up only on the bottom of the clock. This was stacked on a Multipurpose platform and I ran it through my Big Shot.

 ~Under the "flap" of the clock, I inserted an embossed triangle that was inked with Tim Holtz's Tea Dye Distress Ink.

I believe I got all the details in....

Thank you for stopping in...... see how many watches YOU notice around you. ;)

Stamps: ODBD TIME, Studio G snowflakes

Ink: Tim Holtz, Versamark, red glitter embossing powder, Memento Ink

Other: Fantastix tool, Spellbinders Scallop Circles, Ellison Tim Holtz Retro Circles embossing folder, large acrylic block for background