Stampotique Challenge 164 - Animals or Birds

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. Today starts a new challenge over at Stampotique's Designers Challenge Blog

Our lovely hostess is the wonderful Sue Davies and she is asking us to make something With Animals or Birds. 

I decided that I wanted to make a card for my parents anniversary. Their anniversary isn't until New Years Eve but I figured I'd work on it early.

 Birds have always been the theme for their anniversaries and my Dad has this tradition of giving my mom a set of two birds every year. Usually they are little sculptures or ceramic figures but she has one for every year they have been married. I think it's such a sweet tradition.

I just recently got this stamp and as soon as I saw it It reminded me of my parents.

I used Stampotique Stamps

Treemates - by Artist Kylie DiOrio 

Kylie has some wonderful bird stamps and I just love them all

Two Hearts..One Love - By Carol's Collection

Carol has some really awesome sayings in her stamp collection

Here is my card

I used watercolor paper and stamped the image using black archival ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder

I then used my Derwent watercolor pencils to color the entire image. 

I hope when the time comes to give it to my parents that they love it. 

Have a wonderful day everyone! 

Just Because......

Hey there everyone, I hope that your staying warm in this very frigid weather. It's been warming up here in Colorado the passed few days, I'm glad we got to defrost even if it's only for a few days. I actually got to wash my car today. YAY!

I have been doing a lot of design team projects, class projects and gifts the passed few weeks and I really wanted to get into my room and just "play". Not for any particular reason but "JUST BECAUSE"

Sometimes its so nice to do some crafting just for yourself with no deadlines in mind. 

I have this art journal that I work in every once in awhile and I've done lots of background pages and so I found a page that I thought would be fun to work with.

It's not the prettiest page, it's kind of weird looking but I figured, hey, why not!?

I wanted to use some of my Stampotique stamps so I went with... 

I wish I'd worn panties - Carol's Collection

Cockatoo Screech - Kylie DiOrio

Are My pants too tight? - Daniel Torrent

These stamps are so much fun to color and stamp and figure out where you want them on your page. I had a great time doing this, it was so nice and relaxing.

Here is my finished page:

Next time your feeling a bit bogged down by deadlines, stop and  think... "Do I have panties on today?" HAHA!!!

Thanks again for stopping by!! Have a great day!!