Grateful Polka dots and Paisley's & We Have a Winner.

I had such a crazy busy day. I am waiting for my DD's to come home from fireworks to draw the winners name but that will be in a few hours.

I thought I 'ld get this post ready first. In the 2 hour break I had between Breakfast and lunch I went in my scraproom and made this little thank you card.

I used SU "Polka Dots and Paisleys" & SU Pretty in Pink, Tempting Turquoise and Mellow Moss markers and inkpads, to stamp the masked flowers on SU shimmery white paper. I used the "Cute Converse" set and Timber Brown Stazon and SU Chocolate Chip ink pads to stamp the sentiment and distress the scalloped squares. The decorative paper is "Petals" from SU and I used 3 pink Hero Arts Gemstones to enhance and add bling. I used 2 blue rhinestones and glued them to the flowers using the Sakura glue pen. The scallopped square and the rounded squares were cut with my Cricut using the Mini Monograms cartridge cut at 2-1/2". I embossed the blue cardstock, spraying with my perfect pearls hairspray mix and then embossing with the "Paisley" texture plate from the Big Impression Starter kit in my Cuttlebug. I added glitter to the grooves in the embossing using the Sakura Stardust clear gel pen. The ribbon is a brown with larger dots in turquoise that I picked up at Wal-mart. I've been waiting to use it for weeks . Before I mounted the square image on dimensionals over the ribbon after I tied it, I punched the holes in the blue scalloped using my 1/16th hole punch.

The only other thing I did that was different on this card was punch the large holes in the two right side corners using my 1/8th hole punch. I was thinking it would be fun to try punching a larger hole in the corner than a paper piercer could produce. I think they blend into the paper too much in this picture, so maybe I should have punched them into the turquoise paper. I used my paper piercing tool to mark the medium sized holes in the corners with pencil. Then I lined up the punch and punched them out. then erased any trace pencil marks left behind. I think it looks cute! I will try this again on some different cards. If you have any specific questions just ask. I am posting this late and I am yawning so I know it is not going to be that clear.

Drumroll please...

Melissa Roth is the winner of the blog candy she said,

" Wishing you and your family a very fun 4th of July. July 4, 2007 2:16 PM ".

Thanks for posting , If you email me your address I will mail you, your "Blog Candy", I added a little something extra, see the comment below.

I appreciate everyone coming to my blog and posting comments. Especially Ikkinlala who made it in the last few minutes, and you can see my DD#5 almost drew your number, but she picked number 48. I'll be posting more Blog Candy in the future, I hope you will return and check for it often. Thank You again everyone!

Psst....... One last thing before I go. I love a bargain, and I found the cutest thing at my Wal-mart and I wanted to share. The Pretties Box in the SU Catty is very tempting to me. I think those flowers would be so beautiful to experiment with. I would love to try using pastels, Dyes, and different techniques, but I can't afford to buy everything. Especially to experiment with them. I found this little package of white daisies they come with 12 flowers, 4 of each size, the medium flower looks identical to SU large white flower they measure about 1-1/2". It also has 12 yellow brads and 12 little yellow buttons, for the low price of 2.99!

I think that's a great deal. I can experiment and try working with them first. I will let you know how they work, but I wanted to share what I found here. I posted a picture so you would know what to look for.

I decided I am going to add the above card and 1 of each flower size and 4 brads and 4 buttons in with this "Blog Candy as well" I figured since I am sharing the Souffle pen I can share the flowers also. Until later...Happy Stamping!