If you follow this blog, you know that Terri Sproul has been doing some interesting things with our stamps. She loves to demonstrate all kinds of techniques from using paper clay to watercolor. We never know WHAT she’ll be up to. Its always a surprise. If you live in the San Diego area, you can catch her teaching or doing demos at various shops. Be sure to check her blog.
Here is Terri’s latest ARTY in WATERCOLOR using some of our stamps. If you are interested, you can find ARTY here.
I have no cards or artwork to show today as today is the birthday of AMERICA!
Americans all over our country will be celebrating the birth of our nation; July 4, 1776. With their families, they will be enjoying summertime weather, eating hotdogs, hamburgers and potato salad. Children will be jumping into pools, lakes and rivers; joining together with family, friends and relatives. When evening comes, families will be OOOO-ing and AHHH-ing at the grand fireworks in the sky.
As we all join in celebration, let us never forget our Lady Liberty, standing on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, representing to all that America is a refuge. Engraved on a tablet within the pedestal on which she stands, reads, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
My two sets of grandparents came to this country from Italy and the concentration camps of the Ukraine, with the hopes of a better life; a life where they could work hard, raise a family and LIVE FREE, away from harsh and corrupt dictators, and become citizens of the land they so loved. At this particular time in our history, we Americans need to work together to assure that America continues to be the wonderful country that the original founding fathers believed she would be and that my grandparents found her TO BE. MAY GOD BLESS OUR AMERICA; Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Let us never forget how fortunate we are to live in such a grand nation; one nation under GOD.
Irina Blount is our newest designer and she has just posted her first item made for us, using BABYCAKES.
Designed by Irina Blount
I love the colors she has used and her finishing touches. Irina’s loves to use layers and lots of embellishments. You can read more about the products she used by going to her blog. She used crystal stickles on Babycakes to help her stand out. Find that here. Thanks, Irina!
