fresh & fun

I had a fun night yesterday. After watching some shows, I went back stamping. Did I mention yet, that I love the Stampendous Bees? I knew they would look pretty on a Joy fold!  And since I am behind on sending out RAK’s and Thank you cards, I made several, all just a tad different.

I stamped the Bee trio on Shimmery white with black Palette ink. It has become my favorite ink for watercoloring. It works well with acrylics as well as rubber stamps. It is a true black and it doesn’t run!

I added it’s a bee-utiful day on the bottom with Karen Foster’s snap stamps and Black Palette ink. I got the smaller and bigger version of those very affordable and versatile stamps. I love them. Now I can make any saying I want!

Next I colored the image with Marigold Morning, Cranberry Crisp, True Thyme, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow and Bordering blue. Once it was dry I used Stardust Stickles and the Sakura Gelly Roll pen to add glittery highlights (which can’t be seen in the photo).

The patterned paper is Scenic Route from the Harvest collection. It works so well with the bee images. The colors are so rich! I used up both sheets and will have to order more from Joy! My shopping cart is filling up again. LOL ….But it’s a perfect time to order from Eclectic Paperie this weekend. They have a SALE!!!!! 15 % off your entire order. Only this weekend with this coupon:

If you look closely on the very front of the photo, you will see the inside image. I used the single bee holding a flower for that, doodled the same border around her white shimmery base and colored her in like the Bee trio.

Teresa Shaw send me another RAK. She had send me a gorgeous card for my birthday and always leaves the sweetest comments. Since she is also in the blogger RAK club, it was high time that I send her a card. I did so last week, but it was a fairly simply card. Yesterday I open the mailbox to find more mail from Teresa. She is sooo sweet. Look what she send me~

I love the card she send me. Who doesn’t like Pink and brown together! But what really made me laugh and ooh and ahhh was the luggage tag she send with the card.

She made me a Beatebella luggage tag! That is tooo cute! Thank you Teresa. I  feel a RAK war coming on! *grin*

If you click on the images, you will see a bigger version! Just found out how to change the thumbnail size to not so tiny, so I can upload bigger images! Wohooo!!!!

This is a fun and easy card fold. I saw it the first time, when Valerie Stangle uploaded her birthday card for Daven last year on SCS!

I posted a sample yesterday and will post more later today, when I the sun is out!

 If you are interested in  a tutorial for this fold, click on more. All images posted are thumbnails. Click on the image if you would like to see the bigger version.

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