Purple Princess

As you know if you read my blog I am a complete sucker for cute!  I seem to have this need to own every cute stamp I see....well this adorable little gal was no exception.  I had my eye on this little cutie for quite some time but I finally couldn't resist and had to get her (she came with a few friends too *wink*).  I don't remember who's blog it was that finally pushed me over the edge but I thank them because she just needed to come and live at my house with me :)

This card is actually my first time using the new SU In Color-Rich Razzleberry.  I LOVE how this color looks with Pale Plum and (sadly retired) Kiwi Kiss (it looks great with Old Olive too if you don't have any Kiwi Kiss on hand).  The colors just pop don't they!??! I also got to use some of the very yummy Rich Razzleberry polka dot ribbon- I think I am as big a sucker for ribbon as I am for cute stuff.  It's a grosgrain ribbon so it ties nicely.  It is a touch wider than what I am used to though so that cute little bow took me a few tries to do.  I colored the cute little fairy with my copics and then spica glitter penned and stickled her up so she is super sparkly and shiny.  Then I added a few hot fix crystals around her and in the corner of the card.  This card just shines in the light, I LOVE it!!!!  I cut out the image using my Nestabilities Label Three.  Since I used the largest size but still wanted a mat (and didn't trust myself to cut one freehand) I cut another (same size) in the Pale Plum.  Then I cut it in half and layered it behind my main image.  You can kind of see where it's cut-it's where the polka dot ribbon goes around it.  It's not perfect but it works :)  And it's probably *really* tough to see but for a little extra I texturized the Rich Razzleberry with the large polka dot SU texture plate....it gives just the most subtle effect *grins*

Materials used: Rachelle Anne Miller Magic Fairy (stampavie); pale plum, rich razzleberry, kiwi kiss cs (SU); stamper's select white (papertrey); tuxedo black (memento); copics; stickles; clear and red spica glitter pens; scalop edge punch (SU); white gel pen; rich razzleberry polka dot ribbon; hot fix crystals (swarovski); polka dot texture plate (SU)

Things here have been crazy but so much fun! We ordered the furniture for the new baby's room tonight.  It should be in to the store within 7-10 days....which means that my stamp room needs to be moved NOW!!!  Yikes!!!  It's been a slow process but now we really can't drag our feet any longer I guess (only 10 weeks until my due date!!!!!)  Currently I have stamp stuff up in the old room, in the new room, AND in the sun room (that's the room that I normally hold all of my SU clubs).  It makes it a little difficult to stamp right now because I have to remember where everything is but I'm hoping to be down in my new room completely soon.  Then I can organize everything and get back to daily stamping....that's the plan at least. My husband is going to bring all of the stuff I use the most down into the sun room so I can work from there until everything downstairs is ready but I think that some of my stamp time over the next few weeks is going to have to be given up to moving/organizing time *sigh* It will be SO worth it in the end but right now it is just plain old overwhelming!!!  Wish me luck!!!  

I hope you had a great day today!! I'll be back tomorrow with a special card that I made for a very special person in my life :)