A Fresh Squeezed Goodbye and Giveaway!

Hello, friends! Today is my very LAST post over on the Fresh Squeezed Blog as a designer over there. I have SO loved being a part of this fantastic team! Ryann and Shannon are awesome!!! For our final cards we were asked to choose our favorite FSS set... that proved a tricky task, however, I settled on the On Trend 2013 set because I TOTALLY love that it has an awesome cityscape AND sequin stamps. SEQUINS, dudes! For reals.


I masked the cityscape to make a portion of it fit inside the poloroid frame. LOVE IT!


AND... Ryann and Shannon are sharing THEIR favorite cards of mine from the term along with a GIVEAWAY for this VERY stamp set over on the Fresh Squeezed Stamp Blog today! Head on over and enter to win it because you know you totally want it so you can be cool like me. Just puttin' that out there. HAHAHA!

No, but for reals...it's a great set... you probably should try to win it. Just sayin'

Have a Happy!!!

In Search of a Magnificently Marvelous Mint!

Mint.  It's all the rage in fashion right now, so naturally, it is all the rage in crafting, as well.  I have fallen 100% for this particular trend... yes.. I even own mint pants, much to The Hubbums' chagrin.  HA!  BUT...I was finding it VERY difficult to get a really good mint ink color for my stamping!  Well... that's when Tsukineko stepped in!  John sent me a bunch of fabulous ink colors and in those included several I could test out in search of a Magnificently Marvelous Mint!  Here are the results!



Each of these is a Tsukineko ink.  And I love ever.single.one of them.  HA!  However, many, as you can plainly see, are not in any way, shape, or form 'minty' in nature.  I did come to a decision after conducting this test, however.  The Aquatic Splash is a remarkable good pale mint tone and the ....wait for it... VersaColor MINT is a lovely deeper mint tone.  (Who knew?!  LOL!)  Mind you, when I began this search I hadn't yet discovered the one actually called mint.  Just putting that out there.  HA!

So...if you are in search of the perfect mint I recommend checking out these fabulous ink colors.  If you are looking for some other lovely green and blue shades...the rest of them are fabulous, too!  YAY!

And..because I hate to post with out a card...here is a fun one I created using VersaMagic inks in a variety of colors along with the super cute sequin stamp from Fresh Squeezed Stamps On Trend set and a cute sentiment from Paper Smooches.



Have A Happy!!!

City Love at Fresh Squeezed Stamps

I have a card up over on the Fresh Squeezed Stamps Blog today using my new favorite FSS stamp set, On Trend!  LOVE!!!  Here is a sneak, but you will have to head on over there to see the card!