Day Three - Stamplorations Spotlight Week!

Hey, there! How zit going? Happy Earth Day! 

We are halfway through an exciting new release at Stamplorations and I'm honored to be guesting for this fun Stamp Spotlight Week!

Here is a look at all the magnificent stamps in the new release:

Today, our spotlight is on NOTEWORTHY:

I love every.single.one. of these uplifting sediments! Here is my card to inspire you:

Squee! I stenciled again! You can find this pretty floral stencil here. It's called "Happy Flowers." Isn't that a perfect name?!

I taped my stencil to my watercolor paper and watercolored in the flower spaces on the stencil. I then took my refill bottle of gold Delicata ink and poured a little into a plastic lid. Using my water brush, I gave the whole background a wash of gold.

As you can see, the stamp I chose to feature today is the awesome "embrace life" sediment. I embossed it in gold (of course) onto vellum and then attached it to the card front with v.o. gold brads.

On a whimsky, I grabbed my skizzers and angled all the corner bits.

At that point my card was done. I took a photo. I called it a day.

And, you know, that's very pretty. But the next day dawned and the more we looked at it, the more we cocked our heads to one side. Even though it was WAY more everything than we were used to putting on a card, we were getting a meh feeling, so Hammy snatched it from the Done Pile and gave it back to me. 

Owell, what the heck, I thought. I already took a photo, so if I mess it up, who will know?

Whereupon I proceeded to trace around the flowers with my fine line Micron brown pen. I think it really made the flowers POP. In fact, I thought the difference was so astounding, I pulled out all my old photo albums and traced around all the pictures of me. 

Here's a zoom:

The camera caught the 18-carrot gold sheen very well because that's how goldilicious it is in real life!

I shocked your biscuit with this one, dinnit I? Well, I shocked my own biscuits. In fact, I went so far out of my comfort zone, I had to call the Mister to come and pick me up!

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Shery is generously offering PRIZES for this Release Week! For a chance to win one of the prizes, make sure you leave a comment here and on the blog posts of the fabulous Design Team members listed below. Each has made you stunning inspiration using "NOTEWORTHY."

Cornelia

Deepti

Maria

Monika

Sari

Shery

Shirley

Tenia

Vicki

Wei Wei

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Enjoy the hop and your day! No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!* 

Please hug a tree and do something nice for the Earth today!

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*Life Is Too Short!

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