On Vacation to States

Well it's an over due vacation.........We flew into Seattle from Anchorage Alaska, and spent 4 days running around shopping & visiting my oldest son who lives in Burien & works for Boeing as a Security Manager. Then we headed to the Tri-Cities in Eastern Washington to DH's parents that are getting on in their years, My oldest traveled on his Triumph motorcycle with us to the Tri-Cities then my youngest showed up the same day coming from Colorado..............it was a nice reunion. Both boys took off the next day on their Triumphs to Seattle. DH got some needed jobs done for his parents (as in rewiring of the garage, replaceing thresholds for doors and other little things) Mother-in-law was recovering from a broken ankle. I was able to bike every day since they live rather close to the Columbia River and they had bike paths & lots of parks. We did go to a few antique shops to browse, but didn't find anything. Talked my MIL into going to a Craft Warehouse, I found some more Ranger Distressed Inks that I didn't have and some more cute Penney Black clear stamps. We are now in Portland, Oregon and the Rose Festival is going on............so we will play it out on what to do? I wanted to go to Peddler Pack Stamps but it's Saturday nite. Until later...............

On the Fly

I did another Deco, this is for Mary Kay her theme for the book is "Fish Recipes" so I added a simple recipe for leftover salmon. I used the SU set "On the fly" and TAC paper. The recipe I printed out and edged in Ranger Ink Vintage Photo then crumbled it smeared more vintage photo ink and misted it with water to age, adding some photo corners and some Jole's emblishments.

I really liked how it turned out so I made a couple Father's Day cards similar to it, all products for the card are SU
Hope you all have a great week ..........see ya soon LOL

New Deco Pages

These 2 pages were done for NGS (next generation stampers) the book belongs to Ria, the fashion lady was a TAC stamp edged in gold krylon paint put on blk cardstock and then attached to some homemade paper that I actually made with my friend last year.............adding ribbon with slide.

The next one was actually a ATC page...........I couldn't resist it! LOL
I added it to a new background that I tried. Taking Black cardstock layered some onion bag mesh on it and sponged some acrylic gesso to it then letting it dry, brayered rainbow dye ink. I then add a coat of clear embossing on for shine.

This Deco was done for another group I'm on with and the theme for this one is "Whoooooo are your forest friends?"
I stamped the dragon flies first with versa-mark and brayered rainbow dye ink then wipe the ink off the dragon flies.........stamp the Egret/Sand hill crane? adding cat-tails.


Last one is a Giraffe theme ...........well I only had a kiddies giraffe stamp so I went searching on the internet for a picture of Giraffe's , printed it out and did my best to get this one done for the book. The background paper and tag is from TAC.