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Or…at least kind thoughts that I could use today. A 3 tooth implant surgery, I’m going to be a blood drooling monster on vicodin in a few hours….

Ad.: ahhh, no surgery today, water flooded the basement, I was busy with watrrrrr ALL day, hours and hours and 500 bucks later, no pipe break or something detected, ground water? YUCK

I got some Luna Lights acrylic paints the other day and thought the cling and scrunch technique might work with them if I water them down enough. I’ve never done this technique on black card stock and these shimmery paints just seemed to ask for it. I’d say it works well and I will definitely explore this a little further as soon as I get today’s paint off my finger nails. The stamps that I used to embellish this background are from the first Serenity Set Whisper’s of Dreams from Clear Artistic Stamps . This set is available for order right now at a special price of $11.95 until the re_order comes in. I’ve seen a preview of the next set of this series and if I tell you its delicious its an under statement! Its beautiful!! Can’t wait to get my ink on that, soon, very soon

It is a sunny Monday here, more snow in the forecast for tomorrow, enough already!
One can never have enough “get well” cards and I really felt like playing with flowers today:

A bit of masking, some shimmer card stock, pastel SU colors and some piercing. I used stamps from the Flair of Summer set from Innovative Stamp Creations.

My son was born on mother’s day, happy memories! This was a one for three card as I managed to slip with my Gold Mixative alcohol ink and spray it ALL OVER the place, including 3 other brand new cards…. while I do like playing with the alcohol inks, I always manage to make such a mess of myself and my work space with them, I should do this in the garage or something. The funniest thing was that I thought I only had sprinkled my (old) sweater with a bit gold and then hours later look in a different direction and saw that I had splattered gold mixative just about over everything imaginable LOL…..sigh.

I used the beautiful butterfly from Artistic Outpost’s Happiness plate and a sentiment from the Polaroid Cutie plate for this card. Cranberry and Butterscotch Alcohol inks plus, ahem, *some* gold mixative….. I stamped with black Archival ink and found that a quick heat set really speeds things up for drying the ink on the glossy card stock.
To celebrate moms everywhere, Artistic Outpost is offering FREE domestic shipping on all purchases from now until Monday, May 12th!

I just LOVE silhouette stamps, they are so simple to use and so effective with nearly no effort on your part, the stamp does it all These are from AboutArtAccents, papers are basic grey, flowers from Maya Road, brads basic grey. This is after today’s sketch SC175 on splitcoast. Much fun! Click on image to make it larger….

Do you sometimes feel like making some quick cards that are fun and easy to do and don’t involve that you empty out your entire supply closet and you may still have some time for other things in the day? Yeah, me too. I want to give you an easy recipe for making some quick cards that don’t look half shabby really!

	stamps: Hop into Spring and Sweetpea Sweetheart (both on clearance sale right now!), Little Mary Cheeryberry , sentiment by Papertrey Ink inks: versafine onyx black, palette hybrid: moulin rouge Twinkling H2Os: black orchid, mango mamba (notice how many different shades of flowers you can do with just these two colors) cardstock: white, prism: razzleberry medium liquid pearls: white opal
	stamps: Sweetpea Sweetheart (on clearance), Tiny Button Baby (this week’s special!) inks: versafine onyx black, ancient page: pine Twinklling H2Os: Wild Blueberry, Wild vine card stock: white, Prism: Herbal Garden Medium stickles glitter glue
	stamps: Freckles Bearthday inks: versafine onyx black, ancient page: cardinal twinkling H2Os: Wild Blueberry, Mango Mamba cardstock: white, Prism: Classic Red stickles glitter glue: gold

The free range cattle have babies, and they are so cute it hurts!

Lets get a little closer:

Closer yet, get a load of those eyelashes!

Can you stand the cuteness of the markings of these:

Goodbye for now:

Look who is hiding in the front yard:

and then comes out to stand on the front steps:

Have a closer look?

check out the squirrel feeder: