Viva Blog Hop!

Happy Friday everyone, and welcome to the Viva Blog Hop, hosted by SCACD and Quixotic Paperie.  

Quixotic Paperie (if you are in Europe you can purchase Viva Pens and rubber stamps at Quixotic Paperie) owned by the Fabulous Elaine, and SCACD, owned by our Susana, have been partnering behind the scenes so much that they now consider each other International Sister Stores. 

This new partnership/sisterhood has resulted in both stores combining efforts on certain mutual adventures starting with this awesome Viva Blog Hop (which of course involves Yummy Candy).

Make sure you stop at BOTH store Blogs: HERE for SCACD and HERE for Quixotic Paperie. You will have a chance to win a set of 3 Pens - (Ice White Pearl pen, Holographic Glitter pen and the Clear Gloss gel pen). Each Store Blog will offer up one chance to win the set. How Yummy is that?!!  The candy will run thru the 31st.

All you have to do is answer a question at each store blog - 1 entry at each STORE blog per person please!  

Continue with the blog hop by visiting Kim Costello's blog to see some more exciting uses of Viva Decor Products.   

Viva Decor products are just amazing, and today the blog hop is all about using these fantastic products on our projects.

Here is a card I designed with the Viva Decor Pens:

From 2010-07-22

Everything but the leaves is colored using the Viva Decor Pens! The image was stamped with black ink, then I colored the vase in with the Hologram Glitter Liner.  Then I colored the leaves with Copics (YG 91, 93, 97 and 99).  

The yellow flowers were dotted with the "Sunny Yellow" Gloss Gel Pen, the blue flowers with the "Cobalt Blue" Gloss Gel Pen, the little bits of orange flowers colored with the "Amber" Glitter Liner and then I used the "Hematite (black)" Glitter Liner for a few of the dark stems.

To finish off the card I used the "Ice White" Pearl Pen to make the double pearl border.

If you haven't yet tried the Viva Decor products I highly recommend that you take the plunge and order a few colors/types of the pens.   Every time I take the pens out I find a new use for them, and every card I make using these pens elicits a "wow" from my fellow workers (I put a new card on my desk each week). 


Stay tuned because there is going to be MORE blog candy next week!  Yes, another hop, this time you will be meeting an old friend (can't say more then that) and some more goodies!  

That is it for now,  have a great weekend! 

New tutorial today, and a link or two

Before I get into the stamping stuff today I wanted to say thank you to everyone for being such loyal supporters of my blog.  I can't tell you how much it means to me when you leave a comment or send me an email, especially right now : )  Without going into detail this is a trying time for my family, especially for one member, and sometimes it is all I can do to get through the day.

Anyhow, enough of that, and onto some stamping : )  How about we start with a few cards I made this week?

Here they are, first a Tilda card (and I have discovered that there is no middle ground with Magnolia stamps, either people love them or hate them, and I am in the love group):

From 2010-05-16

Yes, it is a very "purple" card, just felt "purple" I guess.  Tilda is colored with Distress Ink, and the flowers are all embellished with Pearl Pens (absolutely LOVE that product!) and Glamor Dust Glitter.

From 2010-05-16

This is a Swiss Pixie stamp, colored with Copic markers, the flowers are also colored with distress ink and with Glitter Pens.

And here is my new tutorial for Paper Craft Planet,  I hope you like it and try this method for customizing your flowers (speaking of flowers I ordered from Wild Orchid and got my order on Saturday, wow!  Quick, inexpensive and GREAT flowers!):

How to Create Custom Flowers for Any Project (2)

And yes, a few links, here you go:

Vintage Paper Flower Posies:  Very cute idea on a flower you can make without much trouble.

Nestie Storage:  A very good way to store your nesties, if I had room I think I would try this method.

Stickles Storage:  Great ideas on storing your bottles of Stickles.

101 Ways to use Stickles:  From the same blog that had the storage for Stickles is this long list of what you can do with your Sticles when you are not storing them ; )

Ok, that is all for this week, have a FANTASTIC week, and thank you so much again for all of your support.