It's puzzling...

Week 6 of the altered puzzle challenge.

Ingredients:  Spellbinders Harvest 1 die (S3-003); Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint (Yellow Pastel, Altered Orange, Blank Canvas, Charcoal Black); Tim Holtz Distress Paint (Barn Door, Twisted Citron); Tim Holtz stencil (Harlequin); A Stamp In The Hand pear text (N-1766); My Sentiments Exactly (B352 word); Jet Black Archival Ink

Ingredients: Sizzix Tattered Florals Die; Clearly For Art (white); Ranger Archival Inks (Buttercup, Dandelion, Tiger Lily, Orange Blossom, Monarch Orange); Tim Holtz Distress Paint (Evergreen Bough, Mowed Lawn); Tim Holtz Distressables decorative paper; decorative paper clip; Ranger Orange Blossom Embossing Powder; brad; Idea-ology foliage; gold metallic marker

Positively pears

We received a yummy gift box of Harry & David pears from friends this week.  What better way to say 'thank you' than with a pear image!  And I LOVE the ones from A Stamp In The Hand!  I think I have them all plus the coordinating text stamp.

Green Bazzill card stock; scrap of orange check decorative paper; watercolor paper; Tree Branch/Saffron/Fern Leaf/Orange Blossom Archival Inks, Watermark Resist Ink; A Stamp In The Hand stamps M-1740/C-1740/N1766

Happy Rosh Hashanah!

The Jewish new year starts at sundown tonight.  We'll start the evening off by dipping apple slices in honey with hopes for a sweet year ahead.  This card features an apple and my favorite color palette..fall!

Ingredients: Bazzill cardstocks, apple stamp (Anita's) stamped using TH distress markers, apple text (A Stamp in the Hand) stamped using Ranger's Jet Black archival ink

L'shanah tovah!

March is

madness if you are a fan of college basketball, the Ides arrive, St. Patrick's Day, 1st day of spring and National Nutrition Month.  Betcha didn't know about that one, did you? 

I have a card-of-the-month program that's been ongoing for a number of years.  Twenty family members and friends, often shut-ins, receive a card every month from me.  The cards are all the same which means I can mass-produce on an assembly line fairly quickly...once I have my idea.  That's usually the hard part.  Thank goodness for funky daily calendars - there's a holiday for every day of the year - gotta love 'em!

The stamps are from a A Stamp in the Hand and were colored using Tombow markers and huffing or breathing heavily onto the stamps to reactivate the ink.  No matter which term you use it still sounds dirty or disgusting!

The front sentiment was computer generated while the inside sentiment was stamped 'Eat your veggies'.  I made it a point to add that catsup was not considered a vegetable.

What???  No Ranger ink or distressing???  Oh yeah, I used Black archival ink to stamp the description of each veggie.  Whew!