Hi!  I had a chance to do some stamping last night, Yay!  I recently moved my stamping space down into our unfinished basement, so that I could spread out and not worry about the mess.  I was originally in our office, which is right inside the front door…and the french doors didn’t allow me to hide my mess!  Not to mention there just wasn’t enough table space/storage space!  It was convenient, but the mess drove me nuts!  So now, i’m all laid out over 4 tables, one bookshelf (just for SU stamps), two coffee tables, and an IKEA dresser! :)  I’ll take a picture or two when I get a chance.  I’m one of those people that can be really messy when creating, but cannot work when it’s too messy.  Make any sense?  This means that I just need a lot of table space to spread out!

The one dilemma I have with working in the basement…spiders.  We’ve been getting a few wolf spiders (have you seen those suckers, they’re HUGE and YUCKY!).  We’ve had pest control spray and treat the house and basement, but I still get nervous about sticking my hands inside any containers just in case!  I have a serious phobia of spiders…hehe, one night I made the mistake of googling these spiders to see how bad they are (i.e. do they bite)…big mistake to do this just before bed!

Ok, on to my card for today (actually, I made TWO cards last night.  I’ll post the other one later this week).  I used one of my Sugar Nellie images (Sweet Ebony Honey & Pip by Elisabeth Bell) that I had colored already ( I have about 20 images waiting for cards!)  I colored her with copic markers, did a little stitching with embroidery thread, and ruffled up some ribbon around the image to create a frame.  Once again, the color is a bit muted, the blue is much richer in person.  I wish I could figure out why it does this when I upload it to my blog…

Recipe:

Ink: Ranger Adirondack pitch black, various copic markers, Night Of Navy

Paper: PTI stampers select white, Night of Navy, Bo Bunny “summer cottage pottery” paper

Accessories: Blue and gold embroidery thread, crafters toolkit (paper piercer/mat and needle), curly label punch, 1″ circle punch, buttons sizzix dies for the striped circle behind the greeting (not sure of name, got it from SU), half-pearls (martha stewart), ribbon (from LSS…not sure of brand) pop-up glue dots.

Have a wonderful week, and thank you for stopping by!