I love this card. I get excited when I design something out of thin air and it turns out this good. Well, I like it anyway.
The Mocha Morning Specialty DSP is so yummy. It even has a yummy name. The DSP is retiring and so is the Stamp Set - Happiest Birthday Wishes, # 122615 (wood) or 122617 (clear). It's a hostess only stamp set but can be yours with an order of $150 or more. I think it's the best hostess set in the catalog. I use it a lot and will certainly miss it when May 31st comes around.
Not really but I use this Christmas set all year round. It's Scenic Season # 115354. I just mask the Season's Greeting words and use it for everything. It's that versatile. This is on watercolor paper. We stamped the image, thumped darker marker ink on top, sprayed with water and then stamped it onto the wc paper. Beautiful. Add your special greeting and you're finished. It doesn't get much easier than that.
The wonderful thing about being a demonstrator is the amazing friendships that are formed and all the sharing of ideas. I saw this sample somewhere and had to create one myself. I love heat embossing and with just Versa Mark and clear embossing powder, it looks like you have 3 different colors of powder. Stamp the image, heat emboss and punch with the Fancy Flower Punch and adorn with some Bitty Buttons. Instant pretty! The sentiment is from Short & Sweet. Both of these stamp sets are retiring and will be gone as of May 31st.
We will be making this at Stamp Camp on Saturday. Hope to see you there.
Murphy Safari Continued...
Arusha National Park, about 212 sq. miles, is not home to a lot of big game but it has a wonderful variety of bird life and some pretty cool animals. Giraffes are plentiful and there are hippos in the lakes and zebra and dik diks which look like big eyed small deer with long legs and they are so fast as they dart in and out of the bush. There are buffalo too. It was a great introduction of what was to come for the next 10 days.
Tammy is checking out the park maps and information. And to think she did not even want to come with us on this trip. She looks pretty intersted to me.
She's pointing something out to dad.
Look how close he is. But we'll get even closer. Tammy hasn't turned around to see this one yet. He's checking us out though.
We got our first zebra sighting as this zebra darted out in front of us. He was in a hurry to get somewhere. We were so excited and we hadn't even seen any of "the big 5" yet.
I can't remember the names of these birds but they were all incredible and huge. You can click on any of the pictures and see a larger image.
Oh my, I am losing track of time going through all these pictures again. Hope you like them too.
more tomorrow
I had envisioned this in my head on Saturday. When I finally made it, I really liked it a lot. The colors are Baja Breeze and Basic Gray. I love those colors together and when you're making a sympathy card, it needs to be clean and simple, imho :-)
I hope you like it too. The stamp set is Love & Sympathy. It's a 3 stamp set and has a lovely verse for the inside. I'm so happy it's not retiring along with the hundreds of others next month. whew
We are making this at Stamp Camp this coming Saturday. I hope you're coming!
An aside....Someone recently asked me about the cheetah picture on my BLOG. I had forgotten that I put that up there eons ago. It's a picture I took back in 2008 when we (hubby, daughter and I) went on a photography safari to Tanzania. It was the trip of a lifetime and we did it up right. We had our own private guide and for 3 weeks we forgot about everything and immersed ourselves into another world. We stayed in mostly tents and one lodge for the safari part. The trip ended in Zanzibar, in beautiful beach bungalows. I thought it would be fun to share pictures of our trip with you as I share card samples with you. If you enjoy them, I'll keep sharing. I'll tell the cheetah story when we get to that part.
After an 18 hour flight, we settled into our first nights accommodations just to rest and woke up to this glorious morning view. Since Tammy is grown, she had her own accommodations throughout the trip. More on that later. I took this shot from my balcony.
I made Tammy a calendar with My Digital Studio (MDS) and this is one of the pages from it. Tammy's private quarters.
On our first full day, we were excited to get started on our safari adventure. After driving for just a bit this was the sight when we entered Arusha National Park. I'll have to go back through my notebooks to remember all the parks but it will be fun to revisit this fabulous trip.
Giraffes for as far as the eye could see. Tammy's favorite of all the animals.
A close up of these two fellas. Actually they could be females for all I know. Aren't they cute and the one is posing so nicely for us. Sometimes they were so close that we felt we could reach out and pet them.
more tomorrow...
Whew, taxes were mailed today. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. I actually had them done last Thursday but just signed them and put in the mail today. Glad that's over for another year :-)
This is one of my favorite stamp sets in the Occasions Mini catalog. I'll be sad to see it go at the end of April. I hope it is in the new catalog but you just never know.
My sister, Donna, sent me this card for my birthday and I just love it. When you open it, the black scallop separates and opens up on the opposite side of the white oval. Very cool. It uses the Scallop Frame Bigz Die and the Big Shot. It looks complicated but it's not.
If you're coming to Stamp Camp this Saturday, you are going to make this card. Woo hoo. If you're not on my EVITE list to come to monthly Stamp Camps, just email me at stampinruth@aol.com and let me know you want to be added to the monthly invite list.
More stamp camp projects tomorrow.
