Creative inspiration for my cousin

That was a fun post. I love the benefits of being an angel or just plain shopping with angels:)

Today I wanted to share a card I made for my cousin Jimmy. You see Jimmy had a brain tumor when he was about ten years old. Now he is close to 40 and it came back, in some capacity. He is in the hospital struggling after three hard surgeries. So please say a prayer for his comfort and peace:) WE ARE PRAYIN FOR YA JIM!

This weekend Grandma came to get Maddie and Adam for a sleepover since they were visiting Jim at the hospital and its close to our house. They met me at work Sunday to drop the kids off and I sent this card with a cute pink hippo that has a voice inside, and screams something like hugs and kisses to you. Its corny, but it must be tough for him right now. I hope he is feeling better really soon and can go home. BTW the tumor had no cancer! Thank you God.

The card I have made him is with our beautiful Juliette papers, and our new chocolaty brown cardstock for a base. I also used the burnt umber ink pad which I adore! Even the ribbon coordinates, papers and inks. Its so easy. the set? Abundance is...and its so good for so many occasions. I hope you like it! I did use the scorpal of course for the center fold. Now that its a habit? I use it all the time and love the results. No more crooked bent edges for this angel:)

Supplies:

v253 brown cardstock

v839 juliette striped sheet

White bazill from Mimi collection of cardstock (scrap for saying)

b121 juliette hardware

b321 juliette ribbon

f911 brown floss

tt218 burnt umber ink pad

stamps:

t2660 abundance is

t2775 more abundance

k100 cropodile

Scorpaliscious

So today I totally posted twice and it didnt work! Arghh...so tonight I just know it will work out super well and things will be just in place perfectly.

the photo above is my amazing daughter Madison. I just love the look of sanding photos and with the scorpal I thought, hey why not try to add a bit of personality to the photo with lines and so I did. First I turned the photo over and scored , then flipped it over and sanded. I was so liking it! I can only imagine the cool ways to try this technique for adding ghostly journal lines to my projects too. WOW!

The next one is what happens when Annette decides that she totally loves bazzill and always struggles to work it but not overwhelm it. So in this part of a new team swap for this month, I scored in 1/4 inch on all sides of my yummy pink bazzill cardstock. It added a little somethin somethin without being too much as the cardstock is already lightly textured. Wait til you see the final card! Its a secret for now though:)

So that is my scorpal fun for the day. And I sure am glad google is working out the bugs from earlier:)

a scorpal can do WHAT?

So I am VERY back and ready for papercrafting action again, with a ton of things to share. I have one big project to wrap up and I am set! YIPEE~~~

I have been creating cause of need lately since we moved last weekend and it was a three week whirlwind. I will be posting a long update on that but for today? I just have to show you what the incredible SCORPAL can do.

First, this was a tool I didnt think I needed let alone wanted. So being truthful here, its gotta be the handiest thing since the cropodile. That is amazing.

We started to use this for last weekends Twin Cities Stamping Gala here which by the way my AWESOME ANGELETTES team did without asking me to even come:) They knew how deep I was in my home and kids...Thanks guys:) I love you. So, Gayle did a great class creation with the SCORPAL and Renee did a super make and take with it. Ok here is the cool thing...

I have posted previously about how cool this tool is and how it makes everything look so professional and just plain neat. Yesterdays project for me here was to put my stamproom into place. Its a weird shaped area of the laundry room in this house so it was a challenge. I started by pulling shelves that ended up slashing my finger so off to a running start for me:) hee hee

I sat down after measuring out the room (that was full of boxes etc...) and using my ruler to divide a piece of paper with lines etc. Well all of a sudden the light went on and VOILA! SCORPAL TIME!!! I got out the plain printer paper and whipped out a grid just perfectly fast. I then took sticky notes for my furniture in the room and whipped out little pink papers that stuck where I put them to work on the plan. Its amazing how fast it went!

So the posted photo today is a different way I bet you wont see on the SCORPAL site, but just have to try if you are moving furniture or rooms, or even a whole house with 7 people, 5 pets and WAY too much stuff. *wink

More scorpal ideas

Hey what can be easier than coloring with these cute shimmer chalks? Just dip a blender pen into them for amazing sealed glitz! Its so fast...my gosh its amazing. Here I am showing you how I colored in this cute butterfly on a scorpal project card. Earlier this am I posted "below" this post, some ideas for using the scorpal.

I picked two colors to use here for simplicity and blend them a bit at the edges when coloring.

Here is another I colored just using the gelly glaze pens. Its a dimensional look which is so much fun! You cant go wrong with these pens...
At the end, I glittered a bit with stickles glitter glue and added a grey tombow markered edge to the image. WOW!