Dot & Whimsy

I had such grand expectations of getting so many things accomplished today.  Enter: road-block.  After picking up around the house, I figured that I would get my video camera out to make sure that it would sync with my laptop.  Nope.  Four hours later, after troubleshooting, trying to finagle drivers, it finally dawned on me to try my old Kodak camera.  Yes!  It worked...I had forgotten that it had a video feature on it.  So, now I have a headache and no desire to start on the cute mitten mini album or join in on the crop over at Absolutely Alter It :/  But, there's tomorrow because tonight it's...TEBOW time :) 

I checked the mail today and oooo oooo ahhh, I received the cutest stamps to work with this month...thank you, Heather!

The top two sets are NEW RELEASES!  You can order Ippity Stamps here

Here is the card that I made for this past week's

This next week we'll be having a New Release Kick-Off-Party over at the Imaginisce Blog! 

I had an absolute blast working with the NEW Sole Sisters collection, as well as the I Rock heat-setting tool...too cool :)  The rest of the Design Team has been rockin' this collection as well...tons of cute altered projects, cards and layouts.  I'll be featured on Thursday, but I hope that you'll stop by before then and take a gander at the amazing designs!

Happy long weekend for some of you :)
Shellye

I've now used all of the pretty stamps from the "New Season, New Wonder" collection from I Hearty {Ippity}.  I love a cherries motif coupled with dots and gingham.  I decided to go with a shabby look for this card, so I also added crumpled seam binding, pom pom trim and vintage buttons.  

For the stamping part, I didn't actually stamp.  I used REAL RED stamp pad from Stampin Up and OLIVE stamp pad from Close To My Heart.  I pressed the lid into the pads before opening.  I then dipped a watercolor pen into the lids and brushed the color onto the stamp...I was worried at first that the ink would dry before I got both colors applied, but they didn't.  I think that it turned out quite nice! Have a look

On the close-up you can see that I cut the stem from the image and used foam dots for the cherries and leaf.

The little dots on the tag?  Actually a fluke!  I had tea-dyed a whole lot of tags one day and in drying them (in the oven), this particular tag took on the design of the pan that I used to lay them on...pretty cool though!

Thanks for looking!