As you know, I spend a lot of time looking at blogs. Most of them tell me about all the cool tools I need for making cards and such. Unfortunately, I'm not made of money so most of them are out of reach. But I found a bunch of entries about using colored pencils and odorless mineral spirits to color in your stamps. The colored pencils were on sale at Michaels for $1 so I bought a few, but I couldn't find the OMS anywhere but on-line. I was about to give in and buy it when one of the blogs I check daily had a new post saying she used baby oil instead.
Voila! It really works. You just color around the edge of the stamped image and then use a blending stump dipped in baby oil to spread the color around. It is going to take a lot of practice to get the technique down, but I'm having fun trying. Now I just need more stamps that have open spaces to color in.
Heidi Tuttle had her baby boy Chance last week so I made her this card. I don't know if you can see the shading on the robe, but it's there. It needed something on the top right corner so I added the piercing, but I'm not sold on it. Oh well, I'm sure Heidi will love it anyway.
You may remember we had our pictures taken while we were in Salt Lake last month. Sue sent us thirteen proofs and this is the best of the lot. In all the others Savannah is squirming or I am doing weird things with my chin. I may have to give in and go to Kiddie Kandids for a family shot. Maybe they'll be able to make Annie behave!
5 comments:
Karie I love that - I have never heard of that technique.
I think the picture of you guys is fabulous. I saved it on my computer so I can print out a copy to frame.
Kar, I love the picture. You look beautiful. Remeber you don't have a chin to worry about anymore! You didn't tell me about Heidi. Is she doing ok?
Karie-the picture is perfect. You and J look wonderful and that Annie is just showing how fun it can be to take pictures with babies! You look absolutely beautiful in it!!
The card is darling. I'm not quite getting the technique, but the finished product is darling.
How fun! Look at you and doing all these crafty things from LV, not SL. I love the picture! And every time I see J I think how great it is that he finally has enough confidence to say "to hell with what people think" or "who cares if they're staring" I really think that is so cool!
This is such a great fam photo of you guys! I LOVE the backround! I wish we had that kind of greenery here in Vegas!
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