Do I need to add ceramic to my headline box up there?

My aunt wanted to play with ceramic tiles. These are total experiments. We made several but I didn't really like anything that I made.

Except these two little cuties. :-)

Used black ink on the flowers, and colored them in with Stickles.

Used red ink on the other one, and tried to add just a touch of Stickles by running the bottle tip along the lines of the heart image, but not pushing hard on the bottle....I wanted just a "touch" of glittery goodness on there.

Glued a magnet on the back, and now they are on my fridge.

Note:  Heat set the ink before adding Stickles. You can't see it in this picture, but the heart lines are a little smudged where the Stickles are.





Another Note:  My loving daughter has "misplaced" my camera, so I get to post these blurry cell phone pics. *sigh*

ink: SU Basic Black, SU Real Red

Stickles

ceramic tiles from Lowes

heat gun

Hello from Pendant Park

*waves* Hello!

A simple (you know I like simple) card to say "hello". 

I don't like my brads, pushed too hard to try to get them to lay flat, so you can see the points of the brad in the cardstock.  Oh well, this is for me to keep. :-)

cardstock: Stampin UP Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla

ink: SU Chocolate Chip

stamp: SU Pendant Park

Be Mine

I was picking up some birthday wrapping paper at a local store and a card caught my eye.

On the front it said

On the inside it said

Simple at it's best.  

I changed the colors and layout from the card I noticed in the store, but I used the sentiment.

I trimmed the edge of the card, so that the heart would stand out against the black.  It was real hard to get a good picture.  Hope you can see it.  (and excuse the handwriting, my penmanship is horrible, LOL)

I think this works well for a guy card.  

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I am adding this to Tip Junkie Handmade Projects.

cardstock, patterned paper, glitter paper all from local craft store.

punches used are from Stampin UP

Blue Bird

of Happiness? Sure why not. :-)

This card makes me happy, how about you??

Changed it up a little bit.  Still happy?? 

I think so.

(although, I think I should have inked the edges of the bird. agree?)

You Rock to the Extreme

LOL. Catchy title huh?  I like how this card turned out.  I was inspired by the card on page 89 in the SU 2010/2011 catalog.

Using one of my favorite stamp sets from SU, Extreme Elements.

 (sorry about the lighting)

A very simple but effective technique that I like to use is wading up a small amount of tissue paper, then dabbing it on the ink pad, then dabbing the inked tissue paper onto the cardstock. You like?? I do. 

On this card, I did that for the card base but not the strip behind the Real Red strip of cardstock.

cardstock: Stampin UP Not Quite Navy, Real Red, Crumb Cake

ink: SU Not Quite Navy, Real Red, Crumb Cake

stamp: SU Extreme Elements, Extreme Guitar, Just Jawing