Dreamin' of Paris!!

Hello My Friends!!  Thank you everyone for your sweet thoughts--I think I just got overworked and was tired out so the day off was good for me (gotta refresh that mojo every now & again, lol).  So many of you have left me such sweet and awesome comments and it just makes me sooo happy to hear and so kind of you to let me know--I appreciate all your comments--you all are AWESOME!!

And then yesterday morning my laptop crashed and I lost ALL of my emails (all of them)--I was able to get it working again thankfully but I lost all my to-do emails.  If you have emailed me in the past 2-3 days and I have not answered you, please shoot me an email again and I will respond ASAP---also if you've signed up for my Copic classes if you could just shoot me an email on which date you were coming I'd appreciate it.  Sorry 'bout that---but hubby said he's gonna buy me a new laptop (yay) so I'll use this one for back-up only!  Electronics I swear will make ya turn gray!  Anywho, I'm feeling a bit better and was able to get some work done yesterday and hopefully a bunch today.  I've got a few events to go to this weekend so I gotta get all my work done :o)

NewsBitz:

-Tomorrow Susana's Custom Art & Card Design releases the fabulous new Elisabeth Bell for SCACD stamps and the DT is celebrating with a fun Blog Hop!  If you haven't entered for the yummo-licious Blog Candy over on the store blog HERE, you have until 10:30 pm EST tonight to do so (there are sneakie peekies there too)!!  I'm telling you this as a WARNING---YOU WILL WANT THEM ALL--I LUV them!  tee hee!

-Today Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge Team has a new challenge for ya today on their blog HERE!

-Check out all my Newsies on the post below for info on blog candies, new products and stuff! :o)

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I'm Dreamin' of Paris!!

I had quite a few of you enter for my "Dream Journey Blog Candy" HERE and ask me "What my Dream Journey" is, lol!  Well I'm gonna tell ya, hee hee---I want to go to Europe soooo bad, Paris and Normandy in France (I want to see my grandfather's grave in Normandy--he died there in WWII), then visit Spain, Portugal, and Italy.  It is a major dream of mine and is on my Bucket List for sure!!  Then after that go spend 2 weeks in New Zealand and Australia--a girl can dream right?!!  Anywho, I've had this fabulous "Paris Balloon Collage" stamp from I Brake For Stamps sitting on my desk for awhile just waiting patiently for me to use it!

This stamp is available in large (which is what I used), small and on a sheet with other beautiful collage stamps HERE (use coupon code "SAVE10SUZANNE to get 10% off your whole order)!  I stamped the stamp onto cream cs with PTI's Palette Ink in "enchanted evening" then added some darker highlights with my E41 copic marker.  I also added stickles to the border of the image, Paris word and some of the flowers for sparkle to match the fab dp.  And that dp is by DCWV "At Home" that I just found at Michaels & I LUV it (all chocolates, creams and blues)!  I distressed all my edges with my Tonic Paper Distress Tool and inked the edges with distress ink.  The bow has a Prima Pearl Center and then I used a new swirl punch for the swirly cut-outs. 

Some layered Primas and roses which are all white/cream (see here) that I distressed and added Copics to (B37,B32).  This is a great thing about buying White Flowers--I have a bin of them--you can spritz them, ink them, color them and paint them to match your projects!!  And those fab lil' mini rosebuds are from Wild Orchid Crafts in the UK--you can see them HERE (fab customer service).

And I leave you with this photo of one of my cairn terriers, Baylee:

This was her face looking at me while I was cursing and ranting while trying to fix my laptop yesterday (yes on horrible occasions I can have a potty mouth, LOL).  She looks like she's sad for me or thinking "my mama is CRAZY!", hee hee--so I had to snap her pic!!

Fall Splendor!!

Hiya Friends & Happy Middle of the Week!! Thanks to everyone for their well wishes---I get at LEAST 10 sinus infections a year (especially in the spring & fall) so I'm pretty used to it, although they are not fun! And yes I use a Netti Pot, Nasonex & take vitamins, hee hee---doesn't matter, still get 'em (I blame it on genetics, my mom is the same & so is my son--so thanks Mom, LOL)! It is cool & dreary here in VA this week--kinda depressing, need some sun--can someone send me some please :o)!

For those that asked CHA Winter is in Anaheim, CA every year & it's a BLAST!! I laughed so much last year that my face hurt & I slept for 2 whole days after I came home from exhaustion, LOL! If I'm reading the newsletters from CHA, they are opening it up to EVERYONE for 2 days BEFORE the actual event so anyone can come those 2 days & visit & buy--see info for that HERE!


NewsBitz:

-Tomorrow Pink Cat Studio Digi Store releases some fabulously fun, new Thanksgiving/Fall images! Check back here to see my projects w/ them tomorrow!

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I just love it when a card comes together EXACTLY like I imagined in my head, hee hee! I used to do alot of collage type of art YEARS ago & really loved it, so I'm just totally lovin' these collage stamps from I Brake For Stamps (see other project here). This one is called "Dahlia w/Ribbon Collage"see here (if you place an order for anything from I Brake For Stamps, get 10% off your order by using the code "SAVE10SUZANNE")!!

There is alot going on in this card--the image was stamped on top of my dp with Versamark & then embossed w/ Powder Keg Fall Splendor embossing powder (so pretty & shimmery). The background text was made by stamping my PTI "Text Backgrounds" onto the dp with rust ink. And I love, love this copper metal sheeting (get mine here)--I dry embossed mine with my Cuttlebug folder and then bent it a bit & attached w/ Scor-Tape (the sheeting is really fun to use). I made my own hat pin with some beads I had on hand--HERE is a great place to get hat pin supplies as well (if the pins are too long, I just snip it to the size I need w/ my Tonic scissors which I did here & then put an end cap on). I really, really LOVE this card, hee hee---it is so sparkly & lovely IRL--I hope to submit it, so we'll see....what do you think?

Next up are some Get Well Notecards I made up---with sickie season upon us, we can all use a stash of Get Well cards to have around! These are fun & quick to make up too! I love using this Lockhart Stamp Co. "Tissue Box" stamp--you can make it elegant or cutesy which is always fun. Today I opted for elegant and used some of my favorite Basic Grey "Eva" papers paired w/ PTI's cs & ribbon (plum pudding/lavender moon). I colored the image with Copics, added some stickles and used my Nestabilities Labels 3 to cut the image & cs out with.

A few pearls added to the bottom & then I love to use real Kleenex on this image--I just fan fold a small square & add it with Scor-Tape--FUN! And then you have some elegant Get Well cards for your stash!

Alrighty, I'm off to work on some projects for tomorrow including some new Pink Cat Digi stuff!!


hugz,
Suzanne