Love Birds

It's Monday again but this time I don't have to go to work! I plan to be floating on a lake and chilling from all this extreme heat we are having.

On Saturday we are going to a family wedding. We will have drag ourselves out of the lake, dry off and put on the dreaded dress clothes, lol. But it will be so good to be with family for a bit.

Here is the card I made for the bride and groom.

It all started with a Hero Arts background stamp that I picked up at the stamp store's garage sale a few weeks back. I think it is called Delicate Branches and it has tiny birds in the design. I embossed the image with white EP onto some cool carribean card stock. The sentiment came from the SU set Together Forever which appears to be retired. The punched birds have little pearl eyes.

Simple but gets the point across. It's a good thing.

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More Class Samples

I am starting to think I missed God's call to build an ark! It just keeps raining and raining and then raining some more.

In Saturday's Jennifer McGuire class we made a total of 10 cards, all very different. I thought I would share just a few more samples of what we did.

I think Jennifer loves blue because most of our cards had some shade of blue somewhere. Can't say I disagree, isn't this light teal color fabulous? The card front was done by inking an embossing with Hero Arts Soft Pool Shadow ink before running the paper through. (actually, one of Jennifer's helpers did that step ahead of time) I have done that technique before but not with this crisp of a result. I am inspired to try again.

This shimmering card used a new product from Faber Castel called Gelatos. I am still undecided about them to be honest. But I love the backgrounder used, it is from Hero Arts and yes, I came home with my own ;)

We all got inky with Distress Stains for this card. The cool part is that everyone's looked just a bit different.

Besides being the day before the weekend, I have a great reason to look forward to Friday. The e-team from Eclectic Paperie is having a blog hop featuring Stampavie images. Not only that, The Stampavie team was invited to play along. I am so excited!! I hope you will plan to join us!!

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Hero Arts+Jennifer McGuire=FUN!!

My favorite LSS, Buffalo Stamps and Stuff, brought in Jennifer McGuire this weekend to teach some classes. Greg and the boys were on a scout camp out (in the rain, blech!!) so I signed up for the morning class called "Creatively Simple". It was a very fun time with my friends, Lynn and Beth, and Jennifer was a great teacher. The 3+ hour class flew by as we got inky doing a variety of techniques and using all kinds of products. Here we are after the class with Jennifer...

Here are a couple of my favorites from the class.

We used glossy cardstock and did a bit of ghosting for this one. I love the blue and green color combo.

Speaking of awesome colors, I loved this kraft project.

After class we enjoyed a great lunch together and did a wee bit of shopping. Greg returned early from the camp out so he could be at church. Afterwards just the two of us went to dinner and rented a movie. A perfectly delightful way to spend yet another rainy Saturday!

I am glad to report you will see a bit more of me this week! Hope you will stop by again.