My New Blog

 Hello to anyone that find me here.  This is my new blog and this is my first post.  I had an actual website in a blog format and found it too expensive to keep up.  I decided to go back to the blogger days and play with creating a blog here.  Let's see if I can keep up with this.

It is my dream to own a brick and mortar store of crafting supplies.  These days it is difficult at best to get and keep a store up and running.  There are NO craft stores where I live (that is not a big box store).  I have to drive 45 minutes to go to the nearest.  Her store is fabulous and it makes me want to do it more and more.  Anyway, another time.

I made this card inspired by a shirt I bought that said this sentiment on it.  I loved it so.  I decided to make a card inspired by it.  

Lets see, where to start.  Let's go from the back to the front.  I used Powder cardstock for my background.  I blended ink from the bottom up fading to lightest at the top,  This was done with the Blue Mountains Fresh Dye Ink Family.  I then stamped the school of fish from the Craft Your Life Project kit by Altenew Link to Altenew Store both with water first to bleach out the image on the page, then with Alpine Aster Fresh Dye Ink Link to Altenew Store to make the image more defined.  

Next, I used Fish Parade Better Press Plate from Spellbinders to print the fish on Powder cardstock from Concord and 9th.  I cut the letters "Salty" using the Bold Alphabet Upper set from Altenew Link to Altenew Store.  I also blended some of the Blue Mountains Fresh Die Inks onto a scrap piece of Powder Cardstock to match the background piece and cut the same words out of this piece.  I offset the darker cardstock down and to the left of the upper letters.  I stamped the word "feelin" with the Sophisticated Script set from Concord & 9th.  This is an older set and I does not look like they offer it any longer.  It looks like Altenew has something similar Link to Altenew Store , I just do not own it.  I then cut the Blue Tang from the Coral Wonders Layering Die Set Link to Altenew Store (At the time of this post, the Coral Wonders Set was out of stock but it is well worth getting on the email list for when it comes back in, this Craft Your Life Kit is Awesome!) from the same blues and purples that were used for my background and then added that yellow tail fin.  I added some iridescent bubbles from Trinity Stamps trailing up from the fish's' mouth.  I love how this turned out.  

As a Twofer, I had a left over piece from the printing of the original of the Fish Parade, I cut just slightly smaller than 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, mounted it on an A2 card base and added a sentiment from the One-Go Solid Sentiment Banners Link to Altenew Store also pressed using the same colors of Indigo Skies Fresh Dye Ink on Power Cardstock.  

Inside, and very faintly I stamped the Sting Rays from the Coral Reef Wonders Stamp Set Link to Altenew Store (Craft Your Life Project Kit).  I am telling you these kits are amazing and worth every penny!

I purchased, recently, the Capsule Basics from The Greetery.  I wanted to play with it.  I created this card where I embossed the capsule in the background, cut the Capsule Fixed Border Large Die with a contrasting color and ran that through my die cutting machine with an embossing folder, this folder is an old folder from Provo Craft and one of my very first embossing folders but I still love it so.  

I cut the Capsule Party Scene Dies (its 3 different dies).  Hard to tell in the image, but the stars are cut from a scrap piece of paper I had used paste on so they have a texture to them.  The banners are out of pink and a matte gold cardstock.  I believe the dark blue cardstock was Peacock from Concord & 9th, and I am not sure about the lighter teal color it was from my stash.  Lets just say I have a little bit of cardstock.  I did do some ink blending on the bottoms of the balloons. 

On a related, but not related topic.  I attended the Concord & 9th Summer Camp event last weekend.  It did not disappoint.  I will post some of the pictures in another blog post.  I did this event with some friends, what fun that is to craft together. 

It was a long weekend but so much fun, that is me on the right.

On a different topic, but another one of my loves, I have a picture to share from my garden.  I only container garden, but I love the flowers and I love to take pictures of them so you may see them from time to time.  

Today, I will be working on a card for my husband to give to someone he works with.  She is going through some rough times.  This is one of the main reasons I love to make cards to share the love around.  I will show pictures when I am done.  I am using products from the Online Card Classes Bundle Better and Brighter Bundle.  

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