Happy New Year's

Goodbye 2019, hello 2020. It's a brand new start. I have s number of things I would like to accomplish this year. The first being cardmaking. Christmas passed for the second year were I have purchased cards to send to friends and family. While half finished cards lay on my desk. 

A few months ago I discovered crystals. There are so many pretty ones. I'm having fun learning what each crystal does. Hoping to get out to do some digging this spring. My Christmas gift will come in handy to pretty up the crystals. You guessed it, I got a rock tumbler. My first attempt has been tumbling for 2 dsys. I opened it up to have a look today. All the sharp edges are smoothing, so I put it on for one more day. Then we will be onto grit #2. 

Lastly I'd like to share a page from my bullet journal. I spent last year figuring out what I wanted to track, and how I wanted my weekly calendar to look. I've got it all figured out and am enjoying setting up my 2020 bullet journal. 

keep smilin 🤗

dee

Celebrate

After noon everyone. Hope your weekend is going well. I'm off today which is very unusual. But very nice to not be in the busy store.

I've been busy this week training the dog. Poor Maxwell was introduced to an electric collar on Tuesday. Wednesday I had a whole lot of anxiety happening. After one quick lesson and being left alone with something I wasn't quite sure of. But we made it, and I have hardly had to use it. The starting exercises are things that he already knows. So anxiety is gone and we are just having fun with it.

My card today was stamped right onto the card base, making it a one-layer card. The stamps I picked up at Michael's. They are a layering stamp, consisting of an outline and the solid base stamp. So the entire card was done with colored stamp pad.

I stamped one extra ice-cream cone, cutting it out and mounting on foam squares. Adding glossy accents to the ice-cream to give it some shine. Added a few dots of mint green liquid pearls. I stamped the Celebrate sentiment on pink paper to match the ice-cream, and matted it on black. Then adding foam squares to pop it up.

Till next time
happy crafting

dee ;o)