Just a quick post because I have to get to work… T-2 days until classes start! I am planning on working ahead because I love my blog and I don’t want it to gather dust on the week.

Remember when the catalog came out? I said I loved this birds but since I wasn’t sure about the rest of the stamps I wouldn’t get it. Well… so much for that one! As soon as I saw what people were doing with it I was sold! (mostly because of Beate’s awesome work).

The inspiration for this card came from a lot of places. The color combo is from a card in the catalog and the scalloped edge is to resemble SU! scalloped notes (which I saw on Jessica’s blog). And, choke on this, NO SKETCH, again! *gasp*.

I probably went a little crazo with the eyelets, but I’m loving my Crop-A-Dile so much I couldn’t help myself… it’s so much easy and less noisy! I’ll be buying a bunch of new eyelets as soon as I can.  The scalloped edge is actually the end of the card and the blue cardstock is on the inside, like this:

Pretty, isn’t it? ♥ So, I’m off to keep “working”, but I’ll leave you with two small neat tips I used:

Tip: Use a glue stick to temporarily mount your unmounted rubber stamps to an acrylic block. It’ll wash out easily with water and soap!

Tip: Bold stamps can be hard to ink and tend to turn out “blotchy”. I gently used a nail file to sand my stamps and it greatly improved the quality of the stamped image (it won’t damage your stamps).

I wish you all ware having a fun weekend, see ya tomorrow! :)

Estivalia.

Stamps: “Always” set (Stampin Up!).
Inks: Blue Bayou and River Rock classic inks (Stampin Up!), Scarlet Colorbox pigment ink (Clearsnap).
Papers: Red and white cardstock (Misc), Blue Bayou and River Rock cardstock (Stampin Up!).
Misc: Blue Bayou stitched grossgrain ribbon (Stampin Up!), 1/8″ silver eyelets, medium corner rounder (EK Success).