FALL EXPO !

FALL EXPO !

 Saturday - November 5 /11

10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Admission - $2.00

at the Lions Club

Parade St., Yarmouth

...  make and takes, product for sale, stampin' fun, door prizes!

Razzleberry Beauty!

Hi Everyone!
Hope you're having a great day!
I have spent most of my day in my craft room ... preparing for a Workshop and a Christmas Card Class -
I wanted to share with you this simple - but to me, beautiful - card ... using Beautiful Season! I used Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla, and Mocha - LOVE these colors together!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Blessings and HUGS!
Ruthie

Diamond Fold Christmas

Good Morning!
Whoa! It's chilly today... 3 degrees according to hubby. Furnace is on this morning, for sure.
I can't seem to get out of the Christmas Card mode.... guess that is because I have a couple more Christmas clubs booked so I just keep producing! :)

Here is a Diamond Fold card I made a week or so ago and neglected to show you! To make the fold you score a 4 x 12 inch piece of CS at 2" and 10". Turn it over and mark the midpoint (6") both top and bottom; take right side and fold on diagonal from top 6" mark to bottom 6" mark; then do left side. Turn 180 degrees and repeat these folds. You now have the middle diamond and the 2 ends - now fold together and voila!

The mat on the 1" circle is the first punch from the triple doily punch! I lightly colored the image with markers and blender pen. The small acorn image - stamped twice - is from the set "Lovely As A Tree".

Thanks for stopping by today!
I hope there is lots of sunshine whereever you are today!
HUGS!
Ruthie

COMMENTS???

How is everyone this rainy morning? I am off on a 2-3 hour road trip this morning - taking a friend to see a doc in the Valley..... prayin' for journey mercies!

re COMMENTS - people are telling me that they are unable to leave comments on this blog!!!! HELP! I tried to fix and was unsuccessful!!!! any suggestions? email me..... thisistheday@ns.sympatico.ca

Thanks!

Beautiful Season - again!

Hello Everyone!
We have had a gorgeous weekend and day today ... what a blessing that has been!
This is post # 496 for me on this blog! I'll probably forget to acknowledge # 500 so thought I'd better say something today! LOL! :) That is amazing.... what a journey this has been! I'm lovin' it!

So here is post #496 - another Beautiful Season. I tried an old technique for the background of the focal stamped image - take a clear block and ink it up with a light colored ink - in this case I used Bashful Blue; stamp it on white or vanilla CS (I used Whisper White) and then stamp your image on it in a darker ink (Pacific Point). I then lightly semi-colored the image with markers... cut it out - matted and popped on the card. I used a piece of the In Color DSP. The ruffled ribbon is done by placing a piece of sticky strip down and then taking a length of ribbon and scrunching and twisting as you go along the sticky strip... sooooo pretty!

Here is the ruffled ribbon - I probably used way more than necessary - this is very dense - but I like it! :)

I purposely used a block that was a bit smaller than the image so I could stamp off the border - thus cutting around the border with part of the image extending outward. You can see that the background is just a bit "muddy" rather than stark white! While I was playing I made some samples in other color combos ... I'll show them to you later this week!

Thanks for peeking in today! Love to have visitors!
HUGS!
Ruthie