New Stuff!

I think 2010 is going to be a great year. I can just feel it in my bones.  Can you feel it too!?

I have a swap to share with you today. This card uses the new DSP from the Occassions Mini that customers can start buying  beginning on Tuesday the 5th. (See the link on the left if you want to view the catalog from my website.) This paper is GORJUS baby! It sparkles! Yes, SU added the bling for us bling happy lassies. :-) I cut out some of the flowers on one sheet of the DSP for the sparkly lovlies in the top left corner.  The sentiment is also from the new mini.  The set is called Well Scripted.  It's flowy and curly and pretty, yes?  I bought mine in the new acrylic block form just to see what they are like. (SU is going to offer all new stamps sets in both the wood block or for use with the acrylic blocks.) They're pretty cool, I have to say. The stamp is still rubber, but SU designed a sticker that adheres to the part that would normally stick to the wood block. So you put the sticker on and then that sucks onto the clear block. Technically, you cannot see through the stamp---well, because it's rubber---but you can get a very good idea of where you're stamping because of the sticker. Ingenious I say! I really don't like acrylic stamps (Sorry for all you lovers out there) but they just don't clean up well and the image isn't as crisp. (The see through stamps just move too easy and smudge and then I'm upset and....well I just want to throw them across the room.) So you can understand why I love the compromise SU came up with. Yup...love it. Sign me up to be a demonstrator! Ooops, I already am...heheheheh. :-) 

Notes for the card.  It's hard to see in this picture, but the apricot paper is embossed and then I traced the emboss with a white gel pen to make the pattern pop.  There is also embossing on the main background piece of regal rose to match the curly forms of the sentiment stamp.  The sentiment was stamped in versa mark and then embossed with a mixture of black and irredescent ice embossing powders so it shimmers as well.  What looks like brads in the upper right corner are 1/4" punched circles.

Supplies:
Well Scripted, Texturz Plates Backgrounds 1 (floral and swirl images)
CS: Regal rose, apricot appeal, basic black, whisper white, Sending Love Specialty DSP
Inks: Versa mark and white gel pen
Accessories: Black gingham ribbon, black embossing powder, irredescent ice embossing powder, dimensionals.
Tools: Heat gun, 1/4" circle punch, Big Shot

Thanks for popping in today.  Leave a comment.  I so love reading them!
Kristine