T Stands for Happy Valentines DAy!

 ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV

Hope you all have a wonderful day!  It is always special to us, because my husband proposed on Valentine's Day.  And that would be 56 years ago, because we have been married 55 years.

Here is a sweet Valentine I made for my husband, and I am also entering it in the Try it on Tuesday Challenge for All Loved Up.

Th image is a Free Graphic Fairy image.  I really liked it and thought it perfect for my honey! I embossed the chocolate chip panel with Cuttlebug Dotted Swiss embossing folder and layered a scrap of SU! designer paper on it, and added some $tree lace and then layered the image on that.  So, I don't know if it needed anything else but decided since I had these hearts die cut already, I would add them.  They are cut out of some textured leather looking dark red.  So, I thought this card was full of love.  

Isn't that vintage Valentine image great?

Also, today I will show you how my trail looks for Valentine's Day.  I took these before our snow.

I took these after our snow, and the trail was snowy, and the water was frozen.

Thank you for all stopping by to celebrate Valentine's Day, All About Love at Try it on Tuesday, and T Stands for Tuesday over at Bleubeard's & Elizbeth's at Altered Book Lover.

Have a fabulous week.

T Stands For Tuesday Again!

 "Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day." Ps. 71:8

Good afternoon!  It is time for another TSFT post.  I look forward to seeing what everyone is doing every T Day Tuesdays. I know it is Monday, but for a lot of our bloggers who come to the T Party at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard and Elizabeth, it is already Tuesday!  So, that is why some of us post on Monday afternoon/evening.  Unlike other times, I have a lot to share today; so let's get to it! :)

Today, I have been playing with a free grafic from The Graphic Fairy.  If you sign up for their Friday emails, you get a free digi every week.  This past week, I also got a free instructions to make these tiny envelopes along with the free digi of them.  She gold foiled the envelopes but I used a gold gelato instead.  I am not going to get into the expense of foiling. Her instructions were to spray the paper before starting to cut, but I sponged inks on instead.  I know, I don't follow directions, do I?  Then we  were to cut the squares out, draw lines across the back like an X, then we would know where to fold the envelopes.  That was a great tip.  Then I fussy cut the roses and the sayings.  I inked up some cheese cloth, then glued all into the envelopes.  Besides the gold gelato around the edges, I also sprayed with shimmer spray.  I am working on a rose theme junk journal and bet these will go in it.  Hers are gorgeous!  I was just playing.  I plan on making more and doing them more gorgeous. :)

I didn't think to take a photo before I had already begin to cut the squares.  This is what the square looked like before cut and folded.

I really think I will use these.  If you want the correct instructions go to The Graphic Fairy. This was called DIY Vintage French Gold Foil Papercraft.

This post would be way too long if I shared everything I had planned to share, so I will save some for next time.  But I did remember to take photos when we went out to eat this week, something we haven't done for a long time, with what has been going on the last year and a half!  Besides the pandemic, my hubby had hip replacement surgery a little over a month ago, yet, he already was able to go out to eat with only the help of a cane.  I praise the Lord for this!  

It is difficult to get out of there without giving in to some of their yummy looking deserts, but we managed!  Mainly, because their daily specials were so filling.  We each even took home half!  So, yummy!

This was a great salad with chicken, cranberries, sunflower seeds, & mandarin oranges served with a wonderful creamy walnut vinaigrette.  Maybe almonds or walnuts, too, can't remember, now.  But, delicious!!!!

Thank you for stopping by.  Be sure and check out Altered Book Lover TSFT to see what others are doing this T Day Tuesday. Have a wonderful crafty week!

T Stands For Sanded Embossing Technique

 Mark 16:6 KJV  "And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here:"

Good evening,  or to some morning.  I really want to share this technique from Splitcoaststampers Technique Challenge today. They have technique challenges every Monday, and lots of tutorials also on the site.   I am excited because you can use up some ugly gel prints with it!  I love to do gelli printing with stencils, and I love using every bit of the paint once I put it on the gel!  Sometimes, I have let the paint get muddy, I think, and that is why some of my prints are ugly.  That is why I love this new to me technique.

I made the card before I thought to show you the steps, so began with another piece just like the first piece so you could see the process.

Here is a piece of the print.  It doesn't look like a stencil was used, it  might have been one that I rolled a golf ball on, so we will call it 3D gel printing.  Ugly, right? LOL

This is the piece after I ran it through my big shot die cut & embossing machine with the Cuttlebug Divine Swirly embossing folder.  Looks a little better, doesn't it?

Looks even better after sanding the raised portions.  Be careful with this step, it is easy to tear the card stock.

The ugly gel print made a pretty good card, didn't it?  I think that I will be using this technique as I have a lot of pieces of gel prints to be used. Or you might just have some pieces of painted background you didn't know how to use.  I will try other embossing folders, too. Stay tuned to this channel and see what I do. :)

Supplies used:  

Recollections white 65lb  card stock.

acrylic paints & Gel plate

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Sanding block

Stampin' Up Sincere Salutations stamp for the sentiment.

SU! Rich Razzleberry Cardstock & Ink

SU! flower punch

SU! gems

Gifted die, from Jan in Spain, I think.  Thank you Jan! :)

Glue dots,

Tombow liquid glue

dimensionals

I hope you like the technique and try it.  It was so easy and quick.

  I submitted this project to the Technique Challenge on Splitcoaststampers as well as to CalvinBall Challenges over at ScrapHappy.com.

Since some will be celebrating Easter this Sunday, here is an Easter card for you.  This background was created with alcohol inks on plastic wrap, then aying the glossy card stock  directly on  the inks on the plastic wrap.  Then I just put on some blue cardstock and added some die cuts. 

Here is one that actually says Happy Easter! LOL  The one below is with a digital that I colored with pencils.  It is from The Graphics Fairy.  I layered it on a Seaside embossed panel of Marina Mist card stock.  Both the paper and the embossing folder are from Stampin' Up.

Happy Easter!

Oops!  Here is my ticket for the tea party over at Altered Book Lover hosted by Bleubeard &  Elizabeth.

She calls it T Stands For Tuesday, and we all have a party and show and tell what we are doing all over a cup of tea or coffee or even a drink of water, whatever your choice of beverage is!  Be sure and stop by over there.

These are some of the teas that my sister sent me for my last birthday.  I am drinking the Moroccan Mint green tea today.  I like it.  Happy T Day to the T Gang!

Thank you for stopping by!