Ready to Paaar-tay!

...well at least Pezzy is anyway! She's on her way to masquerade at Mardi Gras, I would say!

*LOVE* this little girl - both the stamp and the actual bundle of cuteness that inspired the stamp! I love how I feel like I'm watching Pezzy grow up with Marti's stamp sets! When her first Pez-a-Doodle stamp sets came out, Pezzy was this cute chubbly little baby climbing over cakes and stuff! Now she's all grown up going to Mardi Gras! Some beaded fluourises just for fun in the background...and there's perfect pearls there again! It's kind of like...once you start with them, you WANT to keep using them again! Over and over! Missy also has some sparkly, bedazzled dancing shoes there as well. She is SO ready to party!

Please excuse the craptasticness of this picture! I just can NOT seem to get the focus on my camera going...I'm hoping it's not because I dropped it the other day. *OOPSIES* Anywho...the general idea of this was to get a closer look at Miss Mardi Gras Pezzy here all decked out with her Mardi Gras beads! I've never been to one, but word on the street is, if you're going all Mardi Gras then you'd better have the beads! I strung her up a little one so she can twirl it around in the air when the party really gets going! *LOL* I also wanted to TRY to get a little bit of practice in with my Doodlebug flock, so I flocked the diamonds on her pants with a little bit of purple flock. It's not a LOT and I doubt anyone would have noticed had I not pointed it out, but it was a little sample for me to try...next, I'll flock a bigger area! But see how classy Pezzy is? Velvet pants!

I used a Pez-a-Doodle stamp today because I've got some Pez-a-Doodle ANNOUNCING to do! I would like to...*drumroll here*...welcome TAYLOR USRY of Musings of an Addict as the newest Pez-a-Doodle Designs DT member! I am so excited that our team is GROWING and well...another addict...how can we not get along!? She just understands me! *LOL* If you've got an hour or two, mosey on over and say hello and welcome! I said an hour because for those who'll only plan to stay for a minute or two...you'll end up being there for hoooours! Taylor does FABULOUS work!

Don't forget to visit my favourite PDP girls: Marti, Christine and Robin. They've always got something fun and fabulous going on!

That's it for me today! I don't have anywhere fun and fancy to go like Pezzy does up there, but I'm definitely very glad it's Friday! Have a good weekend everyone!

MATERIALS
All hyperlinked products and materials are from Pez-a-Doodle Designs

Stamp: Pez-a-Doodle Exclusive Stamps
Ink: Archival Ink
Paper: Random bits and pieces from the floor of my scraproom...I kid you not...
Embellishments/Tools: Doodlebug flock, watercolor pencils, aquapen, Perfect Pearls, Dimensional Pearls, seed beads

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Rollin'...

...do, do, do, do...rollin' on the river! I've got that song in my head this morning...and now maybe you do too! HAHAHAHA....

So I KNOW I promised that I would be updating more frequently, and then I go and disappear again, but for good reason!

There have been some EXCITING things in the works and I can't wait to share them with you! But for now I have to keep it under wraps until things are more cemented...*giggles* I LOVE being in the know!

Anywho, there is one exciting tid-bit of news that I AM allowed to share! I am OFFICIALLY a Design Team member for Pez-a-Doodle.com! It's exciting for maaany reasons, one of which is this is the first time I'm a Design Team member for ANYTHING. I've always been a bit intimidated, because...well, Design Team...that means you have to come up with some FANTABULOUS things to showcase! But Marti said I should and who am I to argue with Marti?! LOL...another great thing about it is...well, I get to try out some AWESOME things! Since starting my dabbling in Ranger and Tim Holtz products, I can't even BELIEVE I was scared of these things! They are awesome and every day I'm just learning more and MORE about how to use them and the different things I can do and make with them! It's definitely a fun learning process and I'm learning right along with everyone else!

So with that said, here is my FIRST project as a Pez-a-Doodle DT member (needless to say, all products used can be found at http://www.pezadoodle.com/):

Marti's tutorial for the week is focusing on the diversity of clear embossing. Now for all you pros out there, don't yawn just yet and la-di-da it! Even I'm picking up some great tips - starting with learning of the existence of an EMBOSSING BUDDY! I tried one out for the first time last night and I was all open-mouthed and googly-eyed! For such a SIMPLE thing, it makes a BIG difference in my embossing.

So back to my project, I learned about background embossing using inks and the simple art of flicking. For more info on the tutorials, please check out Marti's blog at: http://pezadoodle.blogspot.com/

...please excuse me for loving all over my own creation! LOL..but I had such a fun time making it - granted it's a bit messy, but that could be due to the fact that I'M not the neatest person ever...

So for the background, I decided to use a chipboard coaster. I loaded it up as much as I could with Perfect Medium (I didn't have Versamark - which will be rectified soon) and I sprinkled my embossing powder over the whole thing. Shook off the excess and then turned it around and gave it a couple good flicks of my finger to get some more powder off...kind of to create a distressed, messy look. I heat embossed and I used my felt tool and rubbed and smooshed some Brilliance Dew Drop ink all over it so that some of the ink went in the areas that weren't embossed with powder.

For the rest of the card, I used Cake-Cake with Pezzy as my focal point and to make her and all her yummy cuteness pop out even more, I tried out the 3D technique that I saw on Katie's blog, but stamping her three times, cutting her out and layering her one over the other with pop dots. It was my first attempt at that, so go easy on me!

So there's my little bit of news for today...thanks for sharing in my giggly, wiggly excitement! More fun things to come, and stay tuned for my next installment of my take on Marti's Think Outside the Block Friday! Have you got your blocks yet?

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