Embossed Holidays

Embossed Christmas Wishes:

For Trina W:

For Meaghan H.:

For Cindy P, Petra C. and Ali E. :

 

A Singular Wreath

What stamp should I use on a card for Bridget? I found several possibles, but no perfects. Then, I found this little wreath from Inkadinkado and fell head over heels in love with it. A chance to emboss, and glitter and color -- all things that Bridget does so well; that I just had to try to make it into a special card for her. I wanted the card itself to be simple (of-course), so as not to take away from the effect of the glittery snow on the wreath. Here's to wishing Bridget and her entire family the happiest of holidays!

Emily

The first poem I ever memorized was by Emily Dickinson.


I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! They'd banish us -- you know!

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog --
To tell your name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!



The second poem I memorized was by Langston Hughes. Then I went back to dear, Emily and learned:


I felt a cleaving in my mind -
As if my brain had split -
I tried to match it - Seam by Seam -
But could not make them fit.

The thought behind, I strove to join
Unto the thought before -
But Sequence raveled out a sound
Like balls -- upon a floor.



The fourth poem, I strove to memorize was also by my favorite recluse. I have to admit after the first verse, I never did get it down.

Hope is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm -

I've heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest sea -
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.



Here is a card much in the same vain as my last post. Bird image by Inkadinkado. The word "hope" by Fairie Song. Embossing powder by Ranger.

And the inside of the card is Emily's poem, by Serendipity:

Here is the same card made as a gate fold. Instead of the Faerie Song stamp, I used a Hero Arts stamp for the inside. (Sorry, the poem looks crooked -- it must have to do with the angle I had to take the pic from, because it looks straight when you look straight down at it.)

Hello Owl

Heat embossed with Ranger's Antiquities Verdigris embossing powder is this owl from Inkadinkado and sentiment from Hero Arts.