Vancouver trip

Happy Monday my blogger friends. 
I've been doing a lot of thinking today about my blog.  I know I haven't spent enough time on here, posted enough, done what I want to with it yet.  But we're getting there.  I read an article about blog jealousy and I definitely know I'm guilty of that.  But I can't be the perfect blogger, woman, worker, friend, sister, daughter, person. 
I will try to post more, I do want that to be a resolution.  I think when spring break hits at work I will have more time to play on here and maybe come up with some weekly challenges or something to spruce my blog up. 

But for now let's show you somethings I worked on this past couple days off.

This first picture is of my eldest brother and my youngest nephew.  We stopped by his place in Kelowna.  He lives right on the lake and it was just gorgeous.  Fairly warm when we were there (mind you that was the middle of August last year), and we just sat in his backyard and had a BBQ.  He was a 5 minute walk from a nice beach and Liz took the boys down to play in the sand while Rene took us for a walking tour of downtown.  I used to live in Penticton and went through Kelowna many times before but never really explored it.  I had a lot of fun visiting.

Sorry to blab on I just like to tell the story behind my scrap pages.  I feel like it helps them make more sense to the people that are looking at them(especially since I am not a big journaler).

Anyways, hope you have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Hez

Ever since I watched a video on youtube from the fabulous Renee, I've really wanted to try this technique.  It's called shadow stamping.  It's kind of hard to tell with this picture but the flowers look like they are shadowed.

To break it down fairly simply you need to find a solid image and stamp it on your paper in craft white (from SU!) and then dry it with your heat gun or you'll have to wait awhile because it's fairly wet stuff.  Then you grabanother color that's somewhat close to your background paper and offset the image just a bit, like giving it a shadow.  It definitely helps to have you stamp-a-ma-jig for this as then you can line up your image exactly where you want it to be instead of just guessing.  Now that I finally figured out how it works I love my stamp-a-ma-jig!!! What a time, paper and life saver...lol

I'm working on another card to showcase this technique and if I could ever got off of work at a decent hour I might actually be able to finish the card.  Soon my dear friends, soon.  I'm noticing this picture is a little blurry and well I just happened to find out the government owes me a little moooney, damn tax man, I knew they over-taxed me.  So with my newly acquired fortune I may splurge a little and buy the camera I want.  But we'll have to wait and see...

Anyways I must leave you for now, until next time!

Hez