okistampqueen

Even tho all I really want to do is this...

or this...

I worked on this instead...

It's not quite finished yet

there is a beautiful bow that needs to be added

like I put on this one:

but I don't have the ribbon yet.

 

On this one I wanted the center to mimic

the chalkboard effect that is so prevelant

in all the artwork today

so I used some Brilliance white ink

on Close to My Heart cardstock

with several CTMH alphabet stamp sets

and yes, a stamp from a flower set.

What?

you don't see any flowers?

That line--under "are important"

is the stem piece from one of the older flower sets!

Stretched it out and it worked perfectly!!!

I of course had to use pop-dots

so I stamped, cut out and popped up the "YOU"

I HIGHLY SUGGEST the non-sharpened pencils

vs. the sharpened ones!

There were no OWIES in working with the unsharpened pencils

I still have sore spots from handling the first one!

 

This is going to my best customer's daughter

who is a school counselor.

Hope she enjoys it!

I got a good laugh at myself last night

while hot-glueing 4 1/2 boxes of pencils down

I also managed to hot glue my Corel ware bowl

to the wreath!

I was using as a guide to butt the pencils up against

and it got stuck too! 



The perils and pitfalls!

 

Until next time,

hope things are better in your world than mine.

This, too, shall pass.

 

Happy stamping and scrapping.

Blessings,