Waiting and Watching. . . . .and a Fun Day!

Hi all!

Just want to let everyone know that I've been watching the number of my followers for awhile now, and it is currently at 99! As soon as I get one more follower, and it hits 100, I will have a giveaway to celebrate and to thank all of you!

I had a fun day yesterday! Met with our Hero Arts hostess, Linda and other Flickr friend, Anne at Archiver's, in the Mall of America! We shopped, had coffee, talked and laughed! So nice to see both of them! Here we are, holding our new Hero Arts goodies.



And here's a card I made for a friend's birthday, with my new stamps.



Hope you are all having a nice weekend! I'm on vacation this week and loving it! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Edited to say a big thank you to Janet!! (jinty007) She just pushed me up to 100! YAY!! I'll post my giveaway tomorrow, so make sure to stop by then!

Three More Days!

Hi there!

I'm getting very excited for my upcoming time off from work! I have three more days left before getting nine days off! Yay! I love vacations! As usual, I won't be going anywhere, just staying home. Love that kind of vacation! I plan on relaxing, cleaning a bit, relaxing some more and hopefully making lots of cards! I haven't felt very creative lately and I'm really glad Sue showed a video here of using Alcohol Inks on Vellum because it got my juices flowing. Thank you, Sue!

First I made this card with yellows, oranges and reds.




I wanted to try it again with different colors and something fun happened! After inking the vellum with some blues and greens and embossing the butterfly in white, I decided I wanted a softer look, so I pounced some of the silver mixative over the embossing and it changed the white to sort of blend in with the blue-green. It actually made it more of an aqua shade. I wish I would have taken a photo of it before adding the mixative because the colors really were very different. But I like the way it turned out.




Well, it's very late, as usual, (I am quite the night owl) so I'd better head to bed. Thanks so much for stopping by! :)