she’s baaaaaaackkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!

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My dearest ONE (you know who YOU are).. I am afraid I have lost my captive audience.. I have been away *way* too long and I miss you!  I hope to restore my confidence and bring my audience back to the high volume it was at before (9.5).  I am so sorry I stranded you (Natanya) but I am back with a vengeance.. I am hoping to bring this blog to new and higher places!  So this is the scoop.  I have been away for a while.. we decided to spend some time with our families in Montreal.. oh boy..it was non stop.. first 6 hours in the car and plenty of BARNEY and DORA (I now can recite every song backwards and forwards and upside down), snacks being flung to entertain, singing (you get the idea).  Once we got there it was a tug of war between two families of who gets who for how long and what percentage of time spent.. we had to work on our calculus skills (*giggles*) to figure this out.. there was lots of inspiration there, no sleep and lots of shopping!  I got to ‘escape’ several times with Tema  (my Montreal crafty friend) and she took me to scrapbooking shops where I loaded up on funky ribbon (nothing i love more) and of course the new AMM storage tins (I needed at least 14 of them–ARGH) cuz they were cute and they hold things and they are neat (unlike my office-hmph).. I bought some paper and some ‘bellies’ (LOOOOVE that term I read on SCS for embelishments.. whoever coined this term should win an award –*LOVE* it)

I will go into more detail during the week regarding the embelishments and other goodies but enough about me.. let’s talk about this card.. I JUST LOVE IT!

 I am busy working on designs for some mags and I feel like I am accomplishing SO much and then at the end of this production I take a look and what do I see??? satin, bows, ribbons, knots, green, pink on EVERY CARD… LOL.. I just get fixated and can’t stop?  DO any of you ever feel like that?   I just love green and pink.. I just love ribbons, knots and bows… should I really get out of it or should I just continue.. since it makes me happy.. I think I will continue (*wink*).. but it is annoying, I must say.. SOOOO nicky and I created a challenge where we have to use other colours and boy is it working.. I am reinspired but I have to tell you that somewhere just somewhere teeny tiny.. you will always see a hint of me.. no matter what colour chosen.. so rest assured there will always be a bow, or a hint of lime, or a little baby pink!

Ok, so I LOVE this card–back to the card– (I always seem to get distracted, don’t i?)  I made a pink back to rest the white cardstock on (I love this look–NIcky taught it to me-of course). made the white card 1/4 ” smaller than usual and glued onto the pink back.. I stamped my stitches on the Bazzill parakeet (one of my fave colours) lengthwise and crosswise to create a type of plaid.  I stamped small flowahbella and colored her in with my Copic markers (LLLLLOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE them-you get the picture?)  they color in without streaks and have a pallette of colours not to be believed.. oh ya, and they are so easy to color with.  then I GLITTAH’ed the edges around the flowahbella card (I always glittah the sides and edges–it adds such SPARKLE and is very discreet).. then I took my pink and green stitched ribbon and made ‘v’s and layered under the image, then I added my sentiment “thanks a bunch” and voila!.. YOU LIKEY??

 I hope you like the card and I hope you have a phenom day

love to the 1

Em