Glittered Poof Ball

You know those wonderful net bath balls you can get to lather up body wash? Well did you ever think of using them for something else? I did! I call this Glittered Poof Ball technique.

You will need Black cardstock, White Craft ink, Net Bath Ball (clean unused), holographic highlights embossing powder (SU), and heat tool.

Tap the poof ball in white craft ink, pounce on the black cardstock. Repeat two times before inking again. Continue till you have the coverage you want.
Sprinkle the cardstock with embossing powder, tap off excess, heat emboss. That is all there is to it! Makes some great backgrounds. (click on the image for a larger picture. You'll be able to see the pattern that the poof ball makes)

Did you notice that there are words in the web? I thought it was pretty clever to hand write words in the web. (Just like the spider in Charlotte's web, one of my favorite books when I was young)I used a white gel pen to hand wright the words.

Happy Stamping!!!

Sleep Tight.....Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Ever wonder about where some sayings come from? I figured this one out today.

It was such a great day to get outside, enjoy the fall colors and get some exercise. Hubby and me went to visit Hale Farm and Village. Great little place (well really quite large). Johathan Hale and his wife Sarah settled in the Western Reserve back in 1810. The last surviving heir to the farm willed it to the Western Reserve in 1957 so now it is a museum. One of the things we saw was the original log cabin that the Hale's lived in. Sleep tight comes from the beds having rope to hold the straw mattress. After someone got into the bed another person would take a key (made out of wood you can see it on the bed) and tighten the ropes to give more support. Bed bugs bite comes from the mattress being made out of straw and really having bugs in it. Say it with me.....YUCK! So glad I'm living in this time!



Skip enjoyed watching the blacksmiths. The one facing in the picture is the apprentice. The one working in with the fire is teaching him how to be a blacksmith. Was it ever hot! Lots of heat coming from the building.

I enjoyed the weaving, and candle houses. I even got to try weaving!





Of course I also had to get some hand spun and dyed fibers from the gift store. These are awesome. They use flowers, leaves, bark, roots, onion skins, black walnuts, dandelions, madder root, indigo, goldenrod, and a bug called cochineal to dye the wool.



Okay that's enough for today. I do have some more pictures and stories to share but I'll do that tomorrow.

Light Box Decor

The plastic box storage box I found at a local craft store. I had hubby drill a hole in the back for the cord of the light string to go through. You can however use the plastic box frames if you can't find the storage box or do not have a way to drill the hole. The box frames (I checked) do have a hole in the back already, and come in 5 x 7 and 8 x 10. The string of lights I found in the wedding section of the craft store so they are not tree lights, they are meant to be used in decorations. I think the wattage in the lights are a bit less so you won't have to worry about the cardstock going up in flames if you leave them on to long. Now at my store the cost to make these are 2.49 for the box and 1.47 for the lights. So for me this is really an inexpensive project to make. Remember when the name frames were all the rage? Well this project is similar to those but you have the added lights. I know my friends are going to love this project. Hope you will be able to adapt it to use. Oh before I forget the cardstock is only glued in one place to secure to the inside box lid....it's by the top left star. I put glue dots there because I knew I could cover them up by adding the star to the outside lid with pop dots.

One More Pocket Card/Sweetest Day

These are fun and can be habit forming. Although.....come to think of it everything stamping related is habit forming for me. Of course it may be less money if I had another vise, but I'm sure it wouldn't be as fun




Again....I really love the Punch Pals set. Lots of ways to use this set with many of Stampin'Up! punches.

I was trying to post this yesterday but Blogspot was having problems with uploading pictures. Yesterday was Sweetest Day. I believe the holiday is mostly just local to OH.

Herbert Birch Kingston, a Cleveland, Ohio philanthropist and candy company employee started Sweetest Day. He wanted to bring happiness to orphans, shut-ins and under-privileged. His intent was to show these people that they were not forgotten. In 1922, he started this holiday by giving candy and small gifts. He often used movie stars to distribute the gifts.

The popularity of this holiday quickly spread. Today, is celebrated with loved ones and friends. However, we encourage you to follow the intent of the original holiday, and find ways to give candy and small gifts to those in need.

So yesterday.....I wheeled mom around in her chair and greeted as many of the residents that we could just to say hi. It's sad that many of them have no one talking to them other than the little contact they get with the staff each day. I see other visitor's walk right pass them in the halls and do not respond to them when they say something. Many of the residents have Alzheimer's and don't know where they are only I think they know they are lonely if that makes any sense.

LOL now.....I just went and looked at the date of this post and it's showing Saturday.....time must be off.....it's Sunday. Now I'm really confused! And anymore it takes so little to confuse me. Okay I need my coffee and breakfast.

Frap Bottle

Okay never to soon for Christmas projects...Right? I had a left over frap bottle in my drawer so decided to do a project with it. Stamp set is Festive Favorites. Just love this set! I had dear hubby last year cut the large wood block into three pieces so I could mount the larger stamp on three blocks. I thought it would be easier to work with that way.



I made the "stripes" by using watercolor crayons. Ruby Red and Creamy Caramel. First I cut the strip from natural white cardstock. Then every 1/2 inch I drew a straight line with Ruby Red crayon. Next I used the Creamy Caramel crayon and drew a straight line in between the red lines. Grabbed my handy dandy aqua painter and went over each line just to soften them up. TA DA! It made a great looking background paper to wrap around the bottle.

TGIF!! That means no work and more stamping time to me!

Tried Something new

I was in the mood this evening to try something new. The technique is called emerging colors.



First I stamped the Fannel Background stamp on whisper white cardstock using More Mustard ink. Next step ink up pumpkins (Carved in Candlelit) with VersaMark then stamped over the fannel image, embossed the images with clear embossing powder. For the pumpkins in the back row I had to cut some masks then stamped and embossed those the same way. After all the embossing was finshed I brayered over the entire piece with Buckaroo Blue ink. After that all I had to do was wipe off the ink from the embossed images to let the fannel background show through. I tore off the upper part of the cardstock around the images. Didn't like the way it looked. Sort of flat looking. Layered on Old Olive and Buckaroo Blue. The base card was also stamped with the flannel Background. I love this stamp!! I really need to use it more. I have so many stamps it's hard to use them all. I know some of my stamps are really feeling unloveed and un-inked!!!

Happy stamping!!!

Go Tribe!

Indians won again last night! YAY. They are playing again tonight. Now I normally don't keep up with baseball, but it's hard not to since the hometown guys are doing great this year.





Not much time to stamp this evening. Been trying to get the house put back together. What a mess. I long for the days when the kids were young and I was a stay at home mom. My house was so much cleaner then. Working full time really takes out the desire to clean everyday! Doesn't help when you have three other adults living in the house and two of them still think mom is there to pick up after them. I left a piece of paper on the steps once just to see how long it would take someone to pick it up. Well that paper stayed there for two weeks and didn't move an inch. I found the cat one day playing with it. At least it was moved off the steps. LOL

The card was was made using a standard A2 size cardstock base (Really Rust) cut off 1 inch on the front. Top layer is white glossy that was stamped with VersaMark and then gone over with a brayer inked with Pumpkin Patch spectrum pad. Inside card was layered with So Saffron cardstock.

Till tomorrow. Happy Stamping!! (hope your house is cleaner than mine)