Retired Stock, but I love it

Today I was cleaning out my craft area trying to make room for the new goodies from the latest Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue, and came across all sorts of things that had sort of been pushed to the back of the cupboard. Didnt realise I had so much Not Quite Navy Cardstock and Baja Breeze, and more than one packet of Twitterpad I thought "Blow it, I am going to play!" I decided to make a Z Fold card, havent made one of them for ages. Dont know why I dont make more of them they are so quick and easy and they look lovely too. I used the Not Quite Navy for my card base and for the inside and also the outside flap. I layered it with the DSP and Baja Breeze. Then for the front panel I used Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze and Whisper White. For the inside panel I made it the same size as the one on the front so that when it was closed the top panel would sit over the bottom one. My intention was to use my new Flower Shop Stamp set to decorate the front when I glanced across my desk and what did I see but a "Pretties Kit" tin. Now these have been retired for at least a couple of years, and I think I have used one or two pearls and thats about it :(
This tin has been sitting there for quite some time, and I was going to put it in a garage sale that I have been contemplating having. I grabbed three of the flowers in different sizes and coloured them with Baja Breeze Ink Refill and water. Old olive and the Bird Builder punch took care of the leaves and basic Rhinestone in the centre of the flower. Sentiment stamped with Well Scripted stamp set in Not Quite Navy. I think this is a really pretty card, and I am so glad that I got to have a play. Now its back to cleaning the craft cupboard to get ready for the delivery I am expecting this week.....much excitement, cant wait. Till then, happy stamping.

My Version of the Glassine Technique

It has been a while since I have posted, I have had a bad dose of the flu and sinus and my get up and go got up and went!
I saw a technique from Madeline at Inkspirations 4 U, called glassine. I searched hi and low for my mod podge, but I am thinking it got up and went with my mojo! Not to be deterred, because I really really wanted to try this technique, I used  Crystal Effects instead of Mod Podge. Now using the CE I didnt achieve the 'opaqueness' that Madeline did in her tutorial, but I liked it just the same. Reminded me a bit of a frosted bathrooom window. Wanting to take it just a little further I wondered what the effect would be like if I stamped the image onto the tissue before I added the 2nd coat of CE. It turned out beautifully and when the CE dried I took my Stamp n Writed Markers and coloured the image. It doesnt show up all that well in the photo but it really does look quite effective. I had also put my metal sheets in a very safe place and couldnt fin them for looking, but I unearthed them and they were exatly where they were supposed to be. I just couldnt see them for looking! Because I wanted a blokey sort of card I embossed the metal sheet using the square lattice folder and loved the effect. The cardstock used was River Rock, Not Quite Navy and Very Vanilla and finished it off with some black brads and Night of Navy 1/4" grosgrain. Oh well back to search for the Mod Podge. I know it will be staring me in the face, but in the meantime I have taken the technique another step forward to do something else and will post that a bit later. Hope you like it and I would love to know what you think. Bye for now..........