Page 90 – Loretta Rodger

The Joy of Butterflies

It comes as no surprise to many of you that one of my favorite things is an insect. Butterflies, and lot’s of them. I was completely out of shrink plastic butterflies, so today I sat out on a mission of winged friend making.

I used at least six different Butterfly stamps for this project. All are stamped using Staz on Jet Black ink and stamped onto one side of the shrinky dink plastic, then flipped over and colored on the opposite side. Failure to do this will ruin the copic markers.

I think I spent a good five hours or so making all these butterflies, I also made some flowers, owls and some “dream” sentiments. My small jar of shrink plastic goodies is once again starting to fill up. My hands got tired from the cutting of the pieces so I had to call it quits a little over half an hour ago.

We celebrated the life of a dear friend on Friday. My “aunt” Joyce passed from here onto Glory and Is happily sitting with Jesus. I praise the Lord for the influence of this wonderful woman in my life, she was loved and will be dearly missed.

Stamp Happy, be kind and always be a blessing!

With much love,

Christmas Tag swap — lots of pictures!

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Slide show on You Tube:

With the weather quickly changing from fall into winter, the cooler temperature’s and the quickly falling leaves have left in their wake a grateful girl.

I am grateful for my family, my faith and all of you.

I am participating in an online swap at LSH and I made these gift cards for my partner, They are roughly 5 1/8″ X 3 1/3″. All cut from corrugated box lids. I used my retired sizzix dies for this. The super crescent, super traditional and super scallop.

I also used some shrink plastic and some of the smaller dies. Dies are from sizzix, and The stamps of Life. I hope you’ll get inspired to make some fun Christmas tags for your gifts!

Stamp Happy, be kind and be a blessing!

Santa’s Stuck a 3-D May May Made it re-do (kinda)

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In this video tutorial I will show you how to build a 3D chimney for Santa. I still used the small tea lights to give the illusion of a fire burning.

To place Santa into the chimney I had to cut part of the top of the legs off, Leaving the bottom and boots. Since this is a little bigger than the last version I made, I had to use care when placing it inside the snow globe.

I used both E6000 as well as hot glue (which just holds things in place until the E6000 dries). Every thing else is pretty much the same as the the first version

First video is below:

The second version the 3D is below:

I hope you enjoyed these video’s. Stamp Happy be kind and always be a blessing!

Published!!!! and a dominoe project!

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Above are the dominoes for the LSH swap. I used my accucut craft die to make the presentation. There are two dominoes on the front and two on the back. These are attached with low tack glue dots.

Also,

Check out the January 2014 issue of Scrap and Stamp Arts magazine, my article and project with a bio are on page 47! I also have a card in Just cards Holidays, page 19. I hope you’ll pick up a copy for yourselves.

Have a great day, stamp happy and be a blessing!

An Art Journal

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Hello Friends!

It is hard to believe it is already November 1st. How this year has flown by.

Just like many of you I am so looking forward to the Holiday season. In the midst of beginning the process of making Holiday cards and gifts for close family and friends, I must admit that I also have another large project to complete.

As a member of the Chemo-Angel’s group, we are given a birthday list toward the end of the month. I have been making cards for this venture as well. If you would like more information, please email me at Ms.Rhetta @gmail.com and I’ll be happy to give you the references to join us!

I hope you’ll enjoy this video slide show of the project I made for Candace. It is based upon the Donna Downey style. of art journals. I kept the inclusions simple and used 110# weight Georgia Pacific card stock along with some file folders and uncoated canvas pages. I have permission to post this, as it has not gone postal yet.

Have a great day, enjoy the slide show! Stamp Happy, be a blessing!