My Mother made me do it...

I blame my current stamping addiction on my Super Crafty Mom.

She recently sent me these BEAUTIFUL rice papers to card make.  How could I not be inspired?  I used the little dragonfly one to make my Konnichiwa card below.  She said some of this paper is 10 years old!  Im pretty glad she doesn't like to throw away things! :-)

My Copic Storage

My mother is a stamper and has been for probably over 20 years.  She has been there for all the  scrapbooking/stamping world changes and growth.  When I first became interested in stamping in April 2013 (yes 4 months ago!) she was so excited she sent me most of these Copic pens.  I LOVE coloring with Copic pens!  I added a few but Copics are expensive so it was nice to start with a great base of colors.  

I researched a lot of storage options and because I need to carry them out to my craft area on the dining room table and back again, I settled on this black bag from Target.  I love it because I can have my colors separate and its portable and I can stick my scissors and ruler and heat gun in the middle.  It also stands nicely on my table when I stamp.

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See?  Very handy little storage for my needs!

Konnichiwa!I

Konnichiwa  means "hello" or "good afternoon" in Japanese.  I had so much fun paper piecing this little stamp from Gorjuss. 

I  used an old newspaper to make the "text" for her book.  I colored her with Copics and used Japanese rice paper with dragonflys for the card background.  The "konnichiwa" stamp is from LaLaLand and I used Nestabilities scallop circle die on the black cardstock.  The silver metal brads are Candis.  

I bought this stamp from MarkerPop.com which is one of my favorite places to buy stamping supplies.  MarkerPop is 1) super fast delivery  - its in my hands in a few days -  and 2) great customer service! Once my cardstock arrived bent so I emailed them and they shipped some new ones out complimentary immediately.  

I am entering her in the following challenges:

Graphite Markers - black hair 

Brown Sugar - challenge 51 anything goes 

Thanks for peeking!