Happy, Happy Birthday!!

What a week! Monday I twiddled my thumbs most of the day at work. Now I feel like I'm drowning in work. It's really not that bad, but tax season is definitely here. I ended up working 46 hours this week, and I can all but guarantee I won't work any less until after April 15th.


All that work kind of cuts into my stamping time, though. But I need that stamping time to stay sane. Okay, that might be a bit of a stretch. (Sane? Me?) I need it to stay functioning. So, I spent an hour straightening up my stamping area and made a birthday card. And, I still have one to show you from last week, so you get to see two today.


The House Mouse card is watercolored with Stampin' Up Watercolor Wonder Crayons and Twinkling H2Os (for the balloons). You can't see it well in the scan, but the Twinkling H2Os have mica in them and that catches the light and twinkles as you move the card. They come in 156 different colors, and I think I need them all. It took three different stamp sets to finish the card, Little Pieces, Everyday Flexible Phrases and Warmest Regards. I used Tempting Turquoise, Almost Amethyst and Lovely Lilac cardstock, with Tempting Turquois and Lovely Lilac classic inks. It's finished off with turquoise primas and gold stickles.


This is the card I made today, another WishRAK birthday card. It uses Stampin' Up's Voila stamp set colored with Watercolor Wonder Crayons. I added some yellow glitter glue to the candle flame to make it glow. It uses Elegant Eggplant cardstock and a piece of Rose Red Prints Designer Paper. I finished it off with a piece of Elegant Eggplant grosgrain and a Hodgepodge Hardware circle clip.

Stampin' Up added a new adhesive to their line with this catalog. It's a liquid clue called Tombow Mono, and really strong. It does have latex in it, so if you have allergies, beware. This card is the first time I've used it. I like it, but it's going to take practice. Most of the adhesives I use slide a little, this doesn't, so the layers are a little crooked. It still looks good, though.

I'll be back later this week. I need to design some simple birthday cards for non-stampers to make, with no embellishments. Not an easy task, so I may be asking for your opinions on a couple of different attempts.