Happy Friday!!!

I hope everyone is having a great Friday.  I'm stuck here in bed with either a cold or allergies - I'm not sure which but hoping I'll feel better by tomorrow.  So how many of you have used Wink of Stella Glitter Brushes by ZIG?  I used them for the first time Wednesday at the Card Cafe and immediately fell in LOVE!!!  I came right home, logged into Amazon and found 2 sets I thought I'd like, and ordered them.  Well guess what came in today's mail?!  Yes, my new Wink of Stella Brushes.  

The sets I ordered were Elegant and White Christmas.  The Elegant set contains Glitter Silver, Glitter Clear and Glitter Black. The White Christmas Set  contains Glitter White, Glitter Red and Glitter Dark Green. I followed the directions for priming them and getting them going without any problems and they flow very smoothly. The Red is not a deep red, just red. The Dark Green has somewhat of a gold shimmer to it, which I really like. And the White is very opaque.  In fact I think you would have to go over whatever you are using it on more than once to get it show. The Black was really nice except my tip had a hair at the end that was longer the the rest of the brush but a snip of the scissors took care of that. The Silver was, well, Silver and nice.  But my favorite is the Clear.  You could use the Clear on anything you want to give some shimmer to. I can see that I'll be ordering more Clear pens than any of the other colors. 

Speaking of other colors....These Wink of Stella Brushes come in quite a few more colors, both alone and in 3 packs on Amazon.  I've already got a wish list of these fun brushes.  

I'm adding a picture of a tag I used the brushes on to show how the colors actually show up.  Unfortunately it's really hard to get a good angle that shows all the shimmers. But hopefully this will help everyone get an idea of what these fun brushes will do. By the way, please excuse my coloring out of the lines on the tag! It's hard to color and sneeze all at the same time! 

If you order the 3 pack brushes, this is how they come.

I was able to use all 6 colors on this one tag.  The Silver outlines the bubble, the White is drawn over the red around the bubble, I used the Red on the word Magic, the Dark Green on Christmas, Black on the small words and the Clear I used over the Believe since I didn't order a gold brush.  Not too bad for a first try. 

Have a scrappy weekend. I'll be back on Monday!

Joyce

Monthly Card Cafe Fun

Wednesday was Card Cafe day at my friend, Jeanne's house. She's a Stampin' Up Demonstrator and holds Card Cafes twice a month (this month she's holding a third one - YAY for me!)  Her Facebook page is listed to the left under my Favorite Sites if you're local to South Haven and would like join in the fun.  Anyway,  I always look forward to going to these but last month I was sick and had to miss.  Luckily for me she had leftovers so I tried my best to get last month's cards done AND this month's. But 17 cards was too many for even me.  I did manage to get 9 cards completed and I really like how they all turned out. I'll get the other ones done at her third cafe this month.  The thing I like most about these cafe's are that I get to use stamps that I would NEVER consider buying and then find out that I really do like them! The other thing I like is that she teaches us new techniques and even though I've been stamping for almost 30 years, there are always new techniques coming out and even this old dog has learned some new tricks :)

 My favorite cards from Wednesday's cafe  are the dancing ladies, the card with the bokah background and the dragonfly card. I will definitely be ordering the Dancing Ladies Stamps, the Bokah paper pack and the thinlit used to make the delicate strip across the middle of he Bokah card. It might be cheaper if I just signed up to be a Stampin'Up Demonstrator! LOL! So here are the cards I finished. Feel free to let me know which ones are your favorites.  I know we all have different tastes so please let me hear from you.

That' basically all for today. Tomorrow it's back down o the scrapbook room to keep organizing it. It's really taking shape and I'm so happy about that. Soon I can stamp and scrap in my own little room! Til next time!

Happy Scrapping and Stamping!
Joyce