Lots of Hearts

A little crooked-but another card made using a Gelli print. Love the colors on this one-with the pink and green peeking through.  I used some red ink and stamped some Technique Tuesday and Tim Holtz images onto the print.

I used red so they images would melt into the image and not stand out too much. But I did add they saying (Hero Arts) in black so that would catch your eye.

The big heart in the center of the image is part of the gelli print. I also added a pink die cut of a heart too. It is all about love today.

Then I used a Quickutz, Lifestyle Crafts die to cut the entire gelli print and added it to a white card stock base. Finally I added a few red Viva paint pen dots.

These gelli plate prints make a great card background.

So if you read my blog now and again you'll know I am a big fan of my college Alma mater hockey team. Finally the black bears had a home ice win yesterday!!!!!! We've had a few ties, and a lot of losses!!! Yeah- and we've moved to 8th place in hockey east- hope we can turn around for the next few weeks before the season ends.

Have a great day and

stop by soon.

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From the archives

So today I have a couple of tags from the archives to show you. I have some new work to photograph and post, but at this time of year, getting the right natural light to take decent pictures  is hard. It is dark when I leave at 6:20 for work and dark enough by 4 p.m. not to be able to get a decent shot. Hopefully this weekend I can squeeze in enough light to get those photos taken.

I love this tag on the top here-love the black and white background (Tim Holtz/Stamper's Anonymous) and how it is so much like a vintage newspaper add. The flower is Darcy's and the card is from October Afternoon. By the way- have you seen that October Afternoon offers Santa Sacks on their blog? Pretty good deal if you don't mind taking a chance to see what you will get. 

This tag has green inked background and some dark green pine images stamped (also Tim Holtz/Stamper's Anonymous). Then I embossed some heavy clear plastic packaging.  Snowflakes they are die cuts from Cheery Lynn Designs and the ornament is from Sizzix. I added the 2 punched deer (Martha Stewart) and the gemstone heart and the little oval die cut (Sizzix) with the word stamped on it.

So last night's hockey game was SOOOO painful. Maine got a goal with 5.8 seconds left in the game to tie 2-2 but then the refs disallowed it as they said there was interference and contact with the goalie. Didn't look bad to me...(OK, I am biased), but it was one of those emotional roller coasters-from an exciting high thinking we would go into overtime to down in the dumps when we lost. Another game. Sigh! Maine is doing so BADLY! this year. And we made the NCAA's last year. Goes to show you how little it takes to change the results.

One a happier note-we are heading out to get our Christmas tree today. It is COLD!!!!! Brrrrrrr! Will bundle up but will be a nice way to spend a cold Saturday afternoon and evening, drinking tea and putting up our tree in a nice warm house since the wood stove is cooking away.

You know it is suppose to be in the 50's tomorrow? Can't even hit 30 today.

Once again- just like with hockey games, it doesn't take much to change the way things go.

Stay warm.

Have fun.

Enjoy your Saturday.

Friday Art

Here's a card that just happened-far from what I planned it to be but I like it. I started with orange cardstock that I sanded and rounded the corners. Then I added a piece of 7Gypsies paper (also corners rounded) which I colored with Marmalade distress stain. Then I stamped in brown the 2 flowery bars on the top and bottome (Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz) and then I used one of those awesome new Dylusions sayings stamps also from Stampers Anonymous. Finally I stamped the flower-Paper Smooches, which I colored with orange Copic marker and a white pen-the leaves are Copic Marker too. FInally I added the VIVA orange dimensional dots along the brown stamped bars.

I think it all falls into place with this card. A little different from my normal style...but it's all good.

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