Mojo Monday Week #17

Hey, peeps! Thanks for all your kind comments on DH's post. Isn't he the sweetest? I already had a Mojo Sketch drawn up for y'all (though I still haven't found time to make a sample with it). And since Karrie thinks she might not have any sketches to do during her vacation, I thought I'd pop on with another Mojo Monday sketch. So if you've got time, be sure and link me up in the comments so I can take a look at your gorgeous creation. If you upload to SCS, use keyword MOJO17.

Since I don't have a sample card, I'll show you this ornament I whipped up for Mark's grandma the other day. She loves birds, so I knew I wanted to make a bird ornament. I really wanted to make one of those acrylic block ornaments I've been seeing on everyone's blogs, but I didn't have the materials needed and had no time to go shopping. So I pulled open my good old drawer full of "alterables" and found an old pack of microscope slides that I thought would work. So I cut a white chipboard coaster down to the size of the slides and stamped on both sides with the Autumn Leaves bird stamp and swirls and then added the Joy sentiment from Verve Visual's Wonderful Wishes Remixed. Next I colored the image with Spica glitter pens, used a crop-a-dile to punch a hole in each piece and then sandwiched the coaster between two microscope slides. Next I ran 1/4" Terrrifically Tacky Tape (1/8" would have been better, but I couldn't find my roll of the thin stuff!) around all four edges to hold the pieces together. I then placed some clear beads from my jewelry making stash all around the edges. To secure it and to cover any parts of the tacky tape that were still tacky, I dipped the edges in Irridescent Ice and heat embossed. To finish I just added a May Arts ribbon through the punched holes and voila!

I've been busy, busy, busy the past week. My brother is in from out of town and we've had either a holiday party or family function to either attend or prepare for just about every second of every day since Thursday. And being that special mix of overcommitter and procrastinator that I am, I still have at least 10 homemade gifts to make by 5:30pm tonight for our Christmas Eve celebration with my family. So this girl better get on up to her studio and start stamping! :)

Oh, and if you want some Verve candy, be sure and check out...
Kim's blog
Jen's blog
Shannan's blog

And here's the slide show with last week's mojolicious entries.

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