All That Glitters ...

Hello Stamplings!

I hope this finds you doing well, staying busy, and enjoying some creativity ~ whether in your craft area or your garden. So many places have short summer seasons so the days have to be relished as much as possible. Well, and sure, there's hot dogs, too, to be relished. It makes me pause and wonder, what do relish companies make and sell during the winter months? Sauerkraut? Chicken broth?

I know you want to live in my mind for just one day, don't you? Let me know when you want to come by and I'll kick out some of the squirrels.

Onefer

This design turned out to be a tribute to the old Papertrey Ink company who made both the balloon circle die and the wonderfully-fonted sediment which I embossed in gold. Inspired by the current challenge at CAS Mix Up, I tried a new-to-me technique of dropping alcoholic inks onto vellum paper. What a fun trip that was! Usually I have a sort of sixth sense about knowing when to stop adding more and more of this or that to a technique or design.

I found out that I have no such sixth sense when it comes to AI on vellum. I played, loved the result, but then I cocked my head, checked my hamster, and played some more, rinse, repeat! As you will see in the close-up, at one point I added shimmery acrylic paint to the mix. Wait. What? Yep! I'm telling you, it's addicting! And so cool. The end result is dark and moody from one angle and killer bright and shiny from the other angle:

The linen card design itself using the vellum balloons is uber-duber QACAS. Is that some kind of rainbow mirror card I used for the matting, you ask? Nope. Just what the camera and Mr. Sun put together as a cheery surprise for us.

Challenges

• CAS Mix Up: Hosted by Coni: Alcohol Inks on Vellum. In addition, I stamped, heat-embossed, and die-cut.
  
• Seize the Birthday: Anything goes.
  
• Watercooler Wednesday: Dawn: All About Occasions.

Twofer

Uber-doober QACAS II. This little poinsettia stamp and die is NBUS from poppystamps. I simply heat-embossed it in red and then heat-embossed a few leaves in green. It was Wednesday, so Hammy was in his beanbag chair directing the composition and I like the loose minimalist design he came up with using only one leaf. (He's getting pretty old now, you know, for a hamster, so he may have nodded off, but I went with it.) The sediment is heat-embossed in gold.

Challenges

• Addicted to Stamps and More: Die cuts and/or stencils.
  
• CAS Christmas: Poinsettia.
  
• Less is More: Christmas in July.

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