Turtle & Co

Wow, we have been being sick at my house!  I got it first and can I say I don't remember ever being this ill ever.  The fevers of 102 really just wiped me out.  I am slowly getting back to normal, but my husband and both sons are still in the midst of it.

This is a fun get well card and $3 from every set sold goes to the Ronald McDonald House Charities so when you buy the set you really are helping others!

• Card base is Always Artichoke with a front of Pear Pizzazz(retiring soon so stock up).
• On the Pear Pizzazz front about 1" from the bottom I stamped the phrase using Always Artichoke. After stamping I ran it through the Big Shot in the Houndtooth Embossing folder, I think it gives the feel of a turtle shell.
• I stamped the turtle on Watercolor Paper with Stazon.  I colored the image with Ink and an Aqua Painter using the same two greens as the paper. I used Baja Breeze as the shadow to keep the turtle from just floating on the paper.
• I added small googly eyes over the stamped eyes as a fun detail. The image is layered on Always Artichoke.

I hope all of you are well and that no catches what we have here at my house!

Turtle & Co

We finished all the Wedding Celebrating this past week end with an Open House in California.  Sadly my laptop cord got a short in it and it took until yesterday afternoon to get a new cord. So my blog was neglected.

Today's card was from my weekly Card Buffet and uses the stamp set that is the Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set. It is call Turtle and Co.

• The card base is Naturals White with a front of Old Olive, the bottom half was debossed with the Starburst folder.
• I colored directly on the stamps with Marker and stamped the onto Naturals White CS. I then lightly colored the images with ink and a Blender Pen.
• I used two phrases from Petite Pairs stamped in Old Olive.
• Image is layer onto Island Indigo and again on Calypso Coral.

So the wonderful ladies that I Blog Hop with did a Christmas card swap, I will be taking pictures of them and posting them so that you can get wonderful ideas for Christmas cards.