More is More

Wow! It’s ben almost a week since my last post. I got really caught up in getting stuff done and uploaded for my very last Dirty Dozen Gallery on SCS. Maybe I’ll talk more about that whole experience in another post. Today was a decompression day (translate “lazy”). Curt and I went out for a wonderful seafood dinner at a place right on the marina. I wish I’d thought to take a picture of the view. It’s dinners like that that make me love California so much!

I do have a card I wanted to share with you. This is a simple Thank You to everyone who ever made a comment on any of my cards in the DD Gallery. Your encouragement meant more to me than you could imagine! It was born from scraps of stuff from one of my DD cards. I was playing with some Prismatics cardstock (this yummy Razzleberry shade I used for the card base) and a new background stamp (Reverse Dots) from Cornish Heritage Farms. I used chalk inks to stamp the BG stamp on Whisper White (for the green) and on Shimmer White for the pink – those were left over pieces. At the Rubber Stamp Convention last weekend I picked up a package of these adorable acrylic flower charms. They are actually pierced so you can stitch around them, but I covered those holes with this wonderful big pearly brad. The charm started out clear. The gal I bought them from said that they could be painted with a number of products including Twinkling H2O’s. Well, I tried that and it DIDN’T work. So I moved on to Brilliance Opalescent Orchid ink which worked like a charm (pardon the pun)!

The sentiment in stamped in the same Brilliance ink. If you have not tried these, you must! They have the most wonderful pearly finish! This card is sooooo not my normal style. I kept staring at it and several times I tried to add something, but eventually I had to call it finished. LOL!

Product Info:
charm www.sundayint.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=191
Prismatics cardstock www.prismpapers.com
Reverse Dots BG Stamp www.cornishheritagefarms.com/index.php/cPath/22_290
Sentiment and other cardstock is Stampin’ Up!
Brilliance Dew Drop Inks www.eclecticpaperie.com