Inspired by a Song

I have a musical card for you today.

I created the background using watercolor paints on heavy white cardstock then I used red ink to stamp a musical background stamp I won from a give away from Alicia over at: Golden Goddess Designs.

The card base and banner were scraps from my mess. The stickers are from my kids in Tokyo, Japan. I also added a few pearls and sequins.

My son and his wonderful wife live in Japan, David plays guitar as a hobby and has even played onstage with a band in Japan where he is a triple whammy, blond hair, blue eyes, left handed and speaks Japanese like a native. This is going to be his birthday card.

I am entering this card into this challenge:
Blog Quick Quotes - 68 - Inspired by a Song
 

I won and more!!!

A couple weeks ago I participated in a challenge over at Golden Goddess Designs and I won. My prize arrived yesterday and I was so surprised at the wonderful extras Alicia had added to the package, she even sent me some earrings that she made, I am planning of wearing them for my wedding.

Here is my prize package:

 

I hope that you can see the beautiful earrings in front of the spool of twine, they are suns and have beautiful amber stones. Alicia made sure to send a pair that I won't have any allergic reaction to, thank you again Alicia. The wedding stickers and foam stickers in are also extras and Alicia included a very nice card thanking me for my participation in her challenge.

 

I have been also been busy with making myself a new top in my fav color for the wedding:

 

 

Nothing fancy, just a new top in my fav color that is cool enough to wear in the Arizona heat, it is 97 right now, too hot to be going outside. I haven't done much sewing for the past several eons, it was kind of nice to be sitting at my machines again. You notice that I said, "kind of" I used to LOVE sewing and would spend hours sitting at my machine, now it's ok but no longer a passion. I really SHOULD sew up some of the fabric I have, I do need some new clothes.

 

I also designed and made some wedding announcements that I can mail to family and friends after we tie the knot, all I have left to do on them is print the insides and add the ribbon.

 

Next on my agenda is to see if I can make a decent paper bouquet to carry down the aisle or at least hold onto, I don't know if there will be an actual aisle or what yet.



 

 



 

Golden Goddess Designs - 2

Alicia has her second challenge up on her blog, you need to use 3 different die cuts on a layout.

There is a quaint little speck of a town in Michigan called Hell. Most, "bikers" in the area take a ride to Hell at least once a year, I have been to Hell and back several times and yes, Hell DOES freeze over.

 

We always stop in a the Dam site inn, the smaller picture shows the dam that is behind the Dam site. They have a wonderful patty melt at the Dam site.

 

 

The background paper is from DCWV's Rock Star Stack, I layered the pictures with red paper to help them to pop a bit. 

 

I cut all of the die cuts from my Cricut Indie Art cartridge. I used the same red for my shadow cuts, a scrap of silver glitter paper for the blackout cuts and a scrap of black glitter paper for the base cuts.

I tried to get some good close ups so that you can see how the glitter paper sparkles. I used all 3 of the skulls on the Indie Art cartridge.

I am entering this layout into this challenge: Golden Goddess Designs - Use 3 different Die Cuts

 

HIMCR #198 - Super Scraps Saturday

HIMCR #198 - Super Scraps Saturday

The sponsor is 2 Cute Ink!

The giveaway is 2 images, winner's choice, from 2 Cute Ink!

I got to work with this cute unicorn.

 

I started with a 5 x 7 card base, to make the background I used a piece of watercolor paper which I dry embossed then I added some color with my gelatos. The thing I have found out about gelatos is, less is better unless you want a very dark, heavy color. After coloring with the gelatos I rubbed the color in with my finger and a wet paint brush.

 

I colored my image with chalks and cut out with a Spellbinder's circle die, I also backed the image with a piece of chipboard cut with the same die. I put an Action Wobble on the back before attaching to the card.

 

The sun, cloud and sentiment are all from the Spellbinder's Celebrations set thanks to Alicia at Golden Goddess Designs and a Spellbinder's facebook giveaway, she tagged me, I tagged her and her name was drawn along with mine.

 

I added a few sequins and a piece of twine.