Our New Grandbird!

Yesterday John and I joined in the joyous occasion of meeting Sydney, Mark and Jen's new bird, Jasper.  Jasper is an Eclectus Parrot and right now is about a month old.  He will remain at A J's Feathered Friends for a couple more months while he is nurtured and then weaned.  In the meantime, we will be visiting him often so that he gets used to the family and bonds with Sydney, Mark and Jenny.  I guarantee you will get periodic updates and photos as he grows!  He is just so cute! 

You've Got This Watercolored

I was playing with watercolors yesterday, trying to make a sky as was demonstrated on a WPlus9 video.  Well, after numerous attempts, I said forget it--lol!  And I moved on to embossing the flower from the You've Got This stamp set and watercoloring it.  So out came the Versamark ink, black embossing powder and ink, watercolor brushes and water.  After the flower dried, I cut it out (Where is a matching framelit for the flower?) and adhered it to a white card base which I had already embellished using a strip of the black polkadot DSP from the Neutrals Stack.  The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts and I think the card is rather striking!  I mentioned the Neutrals DSP Stack and I wanted to let you know that for the time being, that both the Neutrals and Regals stacks are unorderable until further notice.  It seems that it was cut 1/8" too short so it truly isn't 12 x 12.  It is good that SU! noticed it.  I have the paper and didn't notice the shorter side~~but I sure would have when I went to cut three 4" strips and the last strip was not 4".  Have a great day!

Tip Top Taupe & Navy

I must admit that Tip Top Taupe is probably going to end up being the new In Colors I use the most of the five over the next couple of years.  It isn't Crumb Cake and it isn't brown and it isn't gray, but a perfect neutral.  Today I paired it with Night of Navy. After stamping the "hello star" image on the Tip Top Taupe I cut out the star shape using the framelit from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits set leaving the Night of Navy show thru. Once again using the Mini Treat Bag thinlets, I die cut the little stars and randomly adhered them to the card front.  The Night of Navy seam binding is a nice finishing touch.  By the way, the star stamp is from the You're So Sweet stamp set, a great set for creating little favors/treat bags.  Have a great day! 

Mint Macaron Butterflies

I think that Mint Macaron is a pretty new In Color and it looks very pretty here with the white.  I really like the striped envelope paper available in the new catalog. It is a thin weight paper perfect for making envelopes, but look how pretty it looks when used as designer paper! In addition, it is less expensive than DSP.  You get 20 sheets for $6.00 plus tax and shipping and so it costs about 35 cents per sheet.  It is available in two assortments, the new In Colors and then a Neutrals assortment which includes White, Vanilla and Kraft.  Back to the card, the stamped butterflies are from the Butterfly Basics stamp set and then cut with the coordinating framelits for the muli-layer butterfly.  The little butterfly was punched with the Bitty Butterfly punch.  Plus, I have left enough space to add a sentiment down the road.  One more day and the catalog goes live!  I have my list ready to go.  Have a great day!