Supplies:

Kiwi Kiss Cardstock
My Favorite Things Die-namics Blueprints #19
Vellum
Versamark Inkpad
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder – Buttercup
October Afternoon Daily Glass Apple Cider Pop Dots
Simon Says Stamp Stripe Greetings Stamp Set
Foam Sheet

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shore Card Stock
My Favorite Things Die-namics Blueprints #19
My Favorite Things Bokeh Builder Stamp Set
My Minds Eye Charmed Enamel Dots
Versamark Inkpad
Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder
Foam Sheet

Thanks for looking!!!!

Supplies:

Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Foam Tape
My Favorite Things True Friends Stamp Set
My Favorite Things Die-namics Circle STAX
Simon Says Stamp Fern Inkpad

Supplies:

Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Foam Tape
My Favorite Things True Friends Stamp Set
My Favorite Things Die-namics Oval STAX
Hero Arts Black Hero Hues Inkpad

Supplies:

Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Foam Tape
My Favorite Things True Friends Stamp Set
My Favorite Things Die-namics Circle STAX
Hero Arts Black Hero Hues Inkpad

Thanks for looking!!!

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink Sparkle and Shine Dies
Papertrey Ink You’ve Been Framed Die
My Favorite Things Pink Lemonade Card Stock
Prima Say It In Crystal Something Blue Embellishments

Supplies:

Anna Griffin Matte Gold Paper
Tim Holtz Handwritten Love Thinlits Dies
Tim Holtz Mixed Media Thinlits Die

Thanks for looking!

So here is the next group of cards!!!!

Shark card!   LOL

Supplies:

Newtons Nook Shark Bites Stamp Set
My FAvorite Things Steel Blue Card Stock
Copics:  BV20, BV23, BV25, BG53
Versamark Inkpad
Ranger White Embossing Powder

I really like this card.   It has a nice clean look to it.

Supplies:

Neenah Solar White Card Stock
Memory Box Open Studio A Lovely Smile Dies
Simon Says Stamp Love This Stamp Set
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad

This one is hard to see the sentiment in the inside of the card, it kept popping open.

Here is a close up of the card sentiment.

Supplies:

My Favorite Things Sour Apple Card Stock
Avery Elle Simple Said Hello
Anna Griffith Silver Cardstock
Simon Says Stamp Tilted Banner Sayings

Thank you so much for looking at my cards!!!

There were so many techniques taught at the online card class I am way behind.  Oh heck, I am always way behind in making my cards.   LOL

The first technique I learned was Ink Blending.   Here are my creations!!!

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink Chinatown Cover Plate
Papertrey Ink Keep It Simple Thinking of You Stamp Set
My Favorite Things Black Licorice Cardstock
Versafine Black Tuxedo Ink
Ranger Clear Embossing Powder

When I made this card background, I knew I would use these Tim Holtz Cityscape Stamps.   I like the sun peeking up from behind the city.   I did want to make the sentiment in black, but darn it, I accidently used versamark instead of black ink and I did not have black embossing powder.  Shame on me.

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Cityscapes Stamps
My FAvorite Things Black Licorice Card Stock
Versafine Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Versamark Ink Pad
Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder
Papertrey Ink Lighten Up Sentiments

This bear stamp set by Mama Elephant is just soooooo cute.

Supplies:

Mama Elephant Bear Hugs Stamp Set
My Favorite Things Lush Lagoon Card Stock
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Copics:  RV11, E35, E43, E47

The kittens are really cute…  Dang Mama Elephant sure can make cute critters

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink Aqua Mist Card Stock
Mama Elephant Purrfect Pair Stamp
Versafine Black Ink Pad
Copics: W1, W3, W5, YR18 YR12, R83, BG000

Thanks for checking out my Creations!!!!

Day 20 – The Highest Love Is Grace

“Love is such a deep gratitude. When you are truly in love with life, every breath you take is gratitude.” ― Bryant McGill

Today’s meditation shows us how to harness the power of gratitude to guide our spiritual transformation. We are used to relying on our ego mind to make major life choices, but the vision and guidance of our separate self is always constrained by our past and our limited understanding that sees the world in terms of differences. The guiding grace of our higher self is not restricted by the past or our limited knowledge. Grace sees the differences in the world as integrated parts of one wholeness.

We feel this grace personally as a kind of divine love. This loving state of grace connects us, fulfills us, delights us, transforms us, and awakens us to that elevated state of divine consciousness.

My Notes:

The highest love is Grace.   The purest energy is Love.  Starts with gratitude and falls into grace.  You are loved, you are essential to the overall plan.   You have the most enduring love.  If you can connect with that love, you can dip into that well and have an abundance of love.  We love life, and life loves us back.

AS the path unfolds you have to make decisions.  When you are guided by ego, it is all about thinking, feeling and doing.  You try to make good instead of bad choices.  Transformation choices are relying to gratitude.  It does not use the tools that the ego uses.   Grace comes to us in human ways.   When love flows from our true self to the true self of another it is true love.  It is the most complete love you will feel.  This is the key to transformation.  This kind of love is more than emotion it is the state of awareness.  True and eternal.  This is love.   You are loved for simply being.

I allow love to come to my aid!!!!

Day 19 – The Path to Total Transformation

“It is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.” ― Kallistos Ware

In today’s meditation, we provide the necessary tools of transformation on the path to grace. As we navigate the ups and downs of daily life, with the mix of positive and negative situations at work and home, we need two tools to help us turn our practice of gratitude into a real state of grace: knowledge and experience. Knowledge provides the understanding and vision of how grace manifests, and direct experience gives us the personal validation that makes it real in our lives.

Using the tools knowledge and experience with our practice of gratitude ensures that our path to grace is real and practical. These tools allow us to transmute all of our life experiences, positive or negative, into a genuine life of grace.

My Notes

Any experience can be changed for the good.  The path to transformation leads to a wonderful promise.  But this takes inner growth and this takes time.  It is easy to be grateful when all is well, but not all days are like that. To get thru trying moments we need to be prepared.  WE need to have knowledge and experience; knowledge gives you the bigger picture; Experience lets you know that it is true.  In life there are light and dark aspects in all things.  Everything has both and you need to stop struggling against the darkness and accept it in its whole.  Only then can you appreciate the experience.   My Inner Light is guiding me!!!!

Day 18 – The Rewards of the Higher Self

“You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached acceptance.” ― Shannon L. Alder

In today’s meditation, we explore the benefits of living from your higher self. Living from your higher self means your sense of identity is rooted in your inner awareness rather than your separate self, or ego, which is oriented toward objects of perception.

The higher self is who we are. It is our self-awareness and so it is always with us. The reward of the higher self is a life liberated from the demands, fears, and limitations of the separate self or ego mind. Practicing gratitude and appreciation helps to keep awareness aligned to the higher self because we remain focused on the unifying and uplifting qualities of consciousness, instead of allowing attention to get trapped in differences.

My Notes:

Use gratitude as a portal to our higher self.  The higher self and the true self are the same.  Some call it the soul.  How are we to contact the higher self and take advantage of its power?   The ego and the higher self are connected.  Depending on what you thoughts are…  I me, mine, are thoughts of ego.  The higher self looks for love, grace, truth.   The connection is blocked by lack of knowledge.   Everyone journey goes from doubt to certainly.  Each step guided by what you know and what you have experienced.  You are building a life story.  My higher self is with me all the time.

Resist

Jennifer showed us three technique from the tried and true resist ink stamping technique.

1. Embossed resist with ombre ink blending.
2. Embossed resist over patterned paper.
3. Traditional resist over background stamping.

My first card is the embossed resist with ombre ink blending.  It is hard to see the real beauty of this card and the embossed pattern.   I used my iphone to take photos versus my camera.  It never takes a great picture. at least not like my SLR camera.

Supplies:

Neenah Solar White Card Stock
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Mermaid Lagoon
Hero Arts Basic Grey Fresh Cuts Tiny Triangles Stamp
Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
Versamark Ink Pad

My next card is the resist technique over patterned paper.   I thought this came out interesting.  I had recently bought a new jar of clear embossing powder but it appears it did not really seal everything up and the black ink was tinting the embossed area or got underneath and changed the color.  I took a picture next to the newspaper print so you can see the original print.  In the light it looks silver which still makes a pretty look to the card.  It looks like velvet. whcih looks all Victorian!  Love it.

Supplies:

Authentic Classic Beauty Newspaper Print Paper
Hero Arts Black Ink Pad
Penny Black Blissful Background Stamp
Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
Versamark Ink Pad

The final card is the traditional resist card technique.   I really liked this one.  I struggled and struggled to find a matching pair of stamps and I thought, camping and wood grain, why not?   I really like it!  I have big ideas for this background.   LOL,  well at least I will try!!!

Supplies:

Glossy Paper by Ranger
Simon Says Stamp Ink Pad:  Fern and Cobblestone
My Favorite Things In the Wilderness Background Stamp
My Favorite Things Woodgrain Background Stamp

Thank you for looking at my creative endeavors!!!

Dye & Pigment Ink Stamping

There were three new techniques that Kristina taught us!  I actually only did the first two.

1. Pigment ink + dye ink offset stamping.
2. Dye ink + pigment ink random stamping.
3. Dye ink + dye ink ombré repeated stamping.

The first card is the offset stamping technique.  I liked the way this card looks.  I probably should have used the whip cream ink pad instead of the butter cream.  It looked too close to the card stock to really stand out.

Supplies:

Bazzill Butter Mint Card Stock
My Favorite Things Argyle Backdrops Stamp
Stamper Journey Butter Cream Ink Pad
Simon Says Stamp Ink Pads: Coral Reef, Hot Mama, Willow, Sunshine

The next card is the dye ink and pigment ink random stamping techniques.

Supplies:

Bazzill Butter Mint Cardstock
My Favorite Things Bokeh Builder STamp Set
Stampers Journey Whip Cream Ink Pad
Hero Arts Gold Ink Pad
Simon Says Stamp Ink Pad Coral Reef, Spring Ring, Scuba, Audrey Blue

Thanks for looking!!!!