While perusing my pile of water colored background papers, I came across an ocean colored one that I saved because it was too nice to throw away but too riddled with dark colored blobs. I decided to test three new background stamps on it using various embossing powders. I started with the jellyfish stamp and used clear stamping ink with clear sparkly embossing powder. I stamped and heat embossed several times before moving on to the word stamp. Again, I stamped with clear stamp ink but this time I sprinkled on copper embossing powder. Even though the letters are blurry, they do look like they are underwater. Using white embossing powder, I stamped and embossed the coral/sea urchins. After mounting the embossed piece onto a turquoise card blank, I glued on some small pieces of coral, a broken sand dollar, abalone shell, teeny tiny shells and seaweed-looking yarn. I am proud that I was able to convert an almost-throw-away water colored sheet into an interesting and usable greeting card. Because the words on the card front are so hard to read, I stamped just the one line ' Happiness Comes In Waves' inside the card. I think these words say it all and make this card usable for many occasions. Free-styling card making is full of unexpected and pleasing surprises. Give it a try!
A page from the gratitude journal - my happy pencils
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I remember how excited I was to sharpen my coloured pencils with my new
Afmat sharpener. Look at my happy pencils! Interestingly, I bought both the
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