Love

Stampers Anonymous: Blueprints 2

white cardstock, core'dinations red cardstock, off-white cardstock

Sizzix: Stitched Ovals, bow punch, Love Print texture fade

Gold ribbon, gold vellum

Ranger:  clear embossing ink, Antiquities Chinese Red embossing powder

ColorBox gold pigment ink

Super Bowl 51

It's Super Bowl Sunday!  The Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots are meeting at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas to determine who's the better team this year.  I've never been a fan of the Patriots, and that goes even more so for Tom Brady.  You can do this, Falcons!!!

This card has red and gold fireworks going off while Matt Ryan, Atlanta's quarterback, has the game-winning football in front of him.

Stampers Anonymous:  CMS212 Bird Crazy

Sizzix:  660954 Bird Crazy, Ticket Strip, Typeset, Football & Helmet, Grass, Snow/sand mound (the last 3 old yellow dies but still have plenty of use left in them!)

Ranger:  Jet Black & Red Geranium archival inks, Shabby Shutters & Tumbled Glass distress inks

black, brown & white cardstock..Uniball Signo white gel pen...Micron black pen...ColorBox Gold Pigment ink...Hero Arts Printer's Type & Lower Case alpha stamps...Art Impressions H-1100

Archaeology dig

I'm a member of a bulletin board where the recent topic of discussion has been about all the ancient stuff we never use any more.  One of the members challenged the group to use a tool, stamp, technique or ingredient that has NOT been used or done for at least 5 years.  So, I'm going 'old school' with this 10.75" square scrapbook layout.

Once upon a time (late 1990's) I road-tripped with 2 friends from NJ to numerous stamp conventions in the northeast.  On one such trip I found these really cool packages of EcoAfrica scrapbooking kits by ProvoCraft.  Each kit contains handmade papers, fibers, beads, metal embellishments, etc.  At the time I was very much into items from other countries as my husband traveled the globe for his job.  Into my shopping basket they went.  Only to be buried under mountains of other things I just had to have.  You know how that goes.

***Qualifying items for this challenge:  EcoAfrica scrapbooking kit, Color Box stamping guide, Rollagraph, Stampin'Up Heart of Africa wheel, Prismacolor pencils, animal stamps (U-2280, U-2284) from Art Impressions, and a Repeat Impressions map stamp (5419)

Other items used:  Ranger distress and archival inks, Sizzix mini mover & shapers globe, numerous card stocks