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Beautiful You Card by Amy

Beautiful You Card by Amy

I might not have little kids around the house any more to brag about the cute things they said or did, but a mother can still brag about her adult daughter’s artistic creation, this Beautiful You Card! I suppose I could say happiness is when you ask your daughter what she would like to do the next day of her visit and she says, “Stamp!” That’s never happened before!

She does enjoy doing the Paper Pumpkin Kits I send her but she doesn’t want the ton of supplies her mother has, which is one of the great reasons for people to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin – get all the supplies and design you need to do some crafting once a month without buying and carrying an “inventory” of stamps, paper, and ink! This time she was interested in creating some of her own cards and projects for friends getting married or having babies or celebrating birthdays!

We also tried out several techniques, like salt and ink, alcohol and ink, embossing, watercoloring with ink refills, watercoloring with Brusho crystals, embossing with the Big Shot, die-cutting, coloring with Stampin’ Blends, using Sponge Daubers, and many other things. She had already picked out this Beautiful You Stamp Set to use so she used one of her backgrounds for this stamped image which she had colored and cut out. Then, just like her mother, she played around with several choices of ribbons until she was happy with the look and figured out a way to incorporate the Lemon Lime Twist Ombre Ribbon with the Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon.

Some projects she didn’t have time to pull together but she has paper and stamped images and ribbon all ready to take home with her to complete. I’ll be interested to see what she eventually makes for her friends out of her new stash!

It was nice to have a stamper in the house and nice to have a relaxing visit without the Christmas hoopla going on, as nice as that is at the time with everyone home! It’s always nice to visit with one child at a time, or even two when her brother came home to visit her over the weekend! She wishes she could stay longer but the airfare would be $400 more to stay another couple of days! Crazy! We didn’t even run around to go out and do “fun” things because we were already having plenty of fun staying home, relaxing, stamping, even baking bread and pizza and making a chocolate tart! (Check out www.thefoodnanny.com, my new passion, I don’t even know why!)

So try to go back in your mind and think like a new stamper! Try your supplies in new ways, try out a new technique just for fun. You don’t have to create a masterpiece at the end, just try something new or something you haven’t done in a long time! Everything old is new again….or whatever the saying is!

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