Prima 12 Days of Christmas

I was inspired to create this card for my sweet cousin's 40th birthday by the gorgeousness that is happening over at the 12 days of Christmas blog hop at Prima . Prima and SweetPea are my two biggest weaknesses.

So this uses a bunch of paper from the Finnabair collection. I was so inspired by this particular picture that I had to create. http://prima.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451cc5c69e2019b00f131d3970d-popup

I have been collecting copics over the past year and slowly, slowly getting better at them. I used a Kraftin Kimmie Stamp- Calla Lilly and I think the sentiment is Sweet Pea Stamps and it is a Mark Twain Quote "Sing like no one's listening
love like you've never been hurt
dance like nobody's watching
and love like its heaven on earth"

So there is lots of distressing, a fun little folded medallion (that only took 3 tries to get right... sigh) and lots of little ribbon sticking out everywhere.


Copics Used
E00 01 02
YR21 24 27
R11 r56 r59

Ok seriously. I will get better at posting regularly.... well maybe

I can see the future?

Ok so I really can't, other than the fact that whatever I post after tonight is going to involve some of the awesome polymer clay things using some new Martha Stewart silicone molds I got on sale today. Here is what they looked like before they went in the oven... they look pretty much the same now just, well... harder. Yes I am aware that I shouldn't cook polymer clay in the same oven I food with, but once isn't going to kill us. I am picking up my toaster oven for further endeavors.

So the other thing I bet you are wondering what those Glimmer Misted lollipop flowers look like now that they are dry. In a word, AMAZEBALLS. So great that I used one on this fantastic little birthday card I put together. Now before you ask I have no idea what any of the paper is, it just came out of the pile of scraps in my disaster and there were no identifying marks of any kind. What I can tell you is that this is another fabulous stamp from Kraftin Kimmie Stamps wonderful Three Wishes Set. I stamped her with Memento Tuxedo Black and heat set the image.

I then coloured her with Copics

Skin E00, E02, E11

Hair E13, E17, E18

Veils B12, B00

Body B28, B29, B32 (with tip touching)

Background BV08, BV13

Now I wanted to tie in the colour from the flower a little bit more, so I used the same spray on a light piece of paper and some of my new templates from The Crafters Workshop. The bling in the center of the flower is a bling button from CTMH. Then I stacked it all up and wrote a really sappy letter inside. Enjoy!

So This Card Just Happenned

Well so I have finally organized the HUGE pile of layouts around my scrap room, put them in some semblance of order and went to put them in an album. It was at this point that I realized there were some major events that I had sort of forgotten to scrap... so now I have a semi organized all in one pile of layouts on my floor and a semi organized set of pictures to catch up on. I hate that I can't guess how many pages it will tell me to tell a story, I mean I would hate to miss something right?

In other news I just got me some new stamps from Kraftin Kimmie Stamps. Seriously, they have some super cute stuff, and I think that this little one may have just jumped up to the top of my LOVE list. Her name is Angry Ballerina and I think that I may make cards with her for every person I know.

She is coloured with Copics (Look at me getting all awesome at this blending shenanigans!)

Skin E00, E02, E11

Hair E13, E17, E18

Piggy RV32, RV34

Dress B06, B04, B02

I then fussy cut the heck out of her! The background is a plain white 6by6 card, with a random piece of paper from a swap. The small background is the flourishes from CTMH's The Best Things (C1503) stamped and them embossed with clear embossing powder (Z821). Heat set, let cool, then I smudged some Chalk Inks over it. Sharpie for the line, little bit of Stickles around the end, some CTMH Just Blooms Summer Posies (Z822). All put together it was pretty simple to make, but I really like the look of it.