Happy Birthday Jacque

eek I've been to busy blogging (or blathering) with my new SBS sisters & am a day late for my upline's birthday - TODAY - as I think she's away doing a show hopefully Fastpost will rescue me.

I do hope she's had an awesome day & I wonder what my life may have been like if I've never meet you, definitely not as fulfilled as it is now!

I'm cheating with the card too as Trudi has posted a challenge on the NZSU blog to do some embossing and I love embossing so incorporated it into the card. I've stamped the lovely flourish first in Versamark then chocolate chip ink then clear embossed - for my dear overseas SBS sisters in case you think I'm mad doing this we don't have Craft inks in the SU! range as yet apart from white. But doesn't it make the stamped image glisten!


Stamp sets: Baroque Motifs, French Script background (retired)
Card stock: Very vanilla, Chocolate chip, Purely pomegranate
Ink: Chocolate chip, Purely pomegranate, Blush blossom (BG), Versamark
Other: Clear EP, rhinestone brad (Pretties kit), photo corner punch, dimensionals, sponge daubers.

I hope Jacque likes the card but know she loves chocolate chip & is also very partial to purely pomegranate too & this is such a classy stamp set it's hard to make a bad card with it!

I've been baking

Not cookies but marble coaster tiles. That's one of the really neat things I've learnt along the way that you can stamp on just about anything! I've got quite a lot of birthdays coming up so thought I've got all this stuff so let's create something.

• You have to stamp off first as the first impression is really dark on the tiles i.e. they're really absorbent.
• Bake at 160oC for approximately half an hour.
• Cool, seal with Mod Podge.
• Wrap in a bow & give away (that's always the hard part).

Stamp set/s: French Script, Easy Elegance (both retired)
Ink: all Stazon - Timber Brown, Azure, Pumpkin, Forest Green, Royal Purple
Other: marble tiles, Stampin' Pastels (for chalking the edges), Mod Podge

Happy weekend all (I only have today off as I worked yesterday - so a short one for me).