Final Farewells...

The LAST day to order the retiring stamps from The Angel Company is this Friday, 25 June!

Seeds of Blessings is one of those retiring stamp sets and it has a bunch of wonderful sayings (and 4 cute little images!). Here I paired it up with the new frames set from the Serendipity magalogue and I was delighted when I re discovered some cuttlebug flower dies that my friend Julie gave me a year or two ago. Do you ever have so many things that items get pushed to the back of the cupboard? These are perfect for making those layered flowers that are all the rage!



Card Materials: all stamps and papers from The Angel Company
Stamps: Seeds of Blessing, Fabulous Frames
Accessories: Angelee Soar with it Collection (TAC), branch punch, Cuttlebug flowers, Nestabilities Label Die (TAC), Lemonade Buttons and Blossoms (TAC), Scrappers floss (TAC)

More embossing with our new Impressionabilities plates and I think the Angelee Soar with it Collection is such a feminine paper! I heard that a new paper will be released in the new catalog AND...there will be special Copic pairings available to match our paper lines. Is that cool or what?!

I'll be shipping out my preorders as soon as I get them (hopefully this Saturday!)...if you haven't let me know yet and you want a catty, just send me an email.

Seeds of Blessings

Yesterday I left the dentist office (please note, tooth still not fixed!! argh...) all numb in the mouth and tongue and treated myself to a visit to AC Moore. It's in the next town over so I don't regularly go there, and, I've been trying to be "good" lately. But, I had a 50% coupon in hand and I couldn't let it go to waste. I met the nicest woman there and really enjoyed browsing the shelves and talking about card ideas with her. She even helped me snag the Tim Holtz birdcage die and gave me an extra coupon so that I could get it and this new Spellbinders Label that I have been coveting...I had really been down in the dumps and this accidental meeting turned out to be a real blessing.

This is the actual Seeds of Blessing set that is retiring from The Angel Company and is on sale through June - I especially love the sayings in this set but I must tell you about the best card I've ever seen using it. Melisa Waldorf, former Angel and talented stamper, created this beauty...scroll to the end of her post to see it.

My card is inspired by some cards I saw this weekend at the bookstore. I forget the name of the magazine but I think it may have been put out by the Stampington Company. You take glossy print (I used one of my husband's old Forbes magazines - sorry honey!) and dab on colored ink. I used Versamagic ink straight from the dew drops and smeared it on - yes, that is a techinical term I believe! Then I stamped my Watercolor Plants with embossing ink and clear embossed them. The final step was to rub on dark brown ink... This card is not my usual style I but it ended up quite dark so I kept adding things.

Card Materials: all stamps and papers from The Angel Company

Stamps: Seeds of Blessing, Watercolor Plants

Accessories: ribbon, silver pearls, versamagic ink, clear embossing ink/powder, spellbinders, cuttlebug corners and Mulberry Meadows Soar with it Collection (retired, sniff sniff)

"Go Green" Blog Hop!

Welcome to February's blog hop sponsored by Paperwings...I love being part of such a wonderful group of angels and thanks to Stacy for putting it all together!

The idea is to either recycle something or make something green! I did both...I found this cheap frame at TJ Maxx for 70 cents on clearance...and I pulled out my beloved (sniff, sniff) last sheets of Mulberry Meadows, a retired paper pack from The Angel Company.





I got busy measuring, cutting and gluing down my cardstock - I found YES glue worked the best after I had sanded the frame a bit. I had it in my head that I wanted to color and cut out this cute little gal from Wonder and Joy - what lovely colors to choose from in this paper.





During my first iteration, I just stamped this verse from Seeds of Blessing but in the night it came to me that the Swirlies would make a wonderful addition and that I should "fussy cut" (as Barb calls it!) some extra flowers and float them around the inside...





I used Brilliance White and the Versamark Champagne pads with the Swirlies stamp set and it tied the blue panel to the swirls in the green pattern paper. I was giddy with excitement I tell you! {argh...That one leaf is floating a bit too high but the glue dried so fast that now I just have to get used to it!}


Well...time to see what the rest of the gals created so hop on over to:

Shirley http://glitteredpaws.blogspot.com/
Christine http://christines-creativetherapy.blogspot.com/
Rita W http://stamp2stamp2.blogspot.com/
Laurie http://laurieunger.blogspot.com/
Diane http://www.thesmilinstamper.blogspot.com/
Stacy http://stacy.typepad.com/angel2389
Rita K http://web.me.com/ritasangels/Angelic_Impressions/Blog/Entries/2010/2/14_Angel_Art_Blog_Hop_-_Go_Green.html#