Jun 22 2008
I’ve been Zindorf’d!
Yesterday, Michelle Zindorf, Mary Brown and Karen Barber came over to my house to stamp. All that major stamping talent in my house! Woohoo! It was the first time Michelle and I had met (I had no idea she lives so close!), but Karen and I met at Leadership in January and Mary and I are sidelines with Stampin’ Up! and have known each other for several years. Each of us brought a shoebox to work on. Of course, we wanted Michelle to show us her Zindorf brayer techniques and Karen her Black and White Magic techniques. Mary and I chose to bring 3D projects…Mary an awesome card box tutorial from Andrea Walford and I chose to bring a Pants Purse tutorial that I think originated from Kathy McGuire’s Santa pants. Over the next few days I’ll show you the different projects we made.
The first one was the card that Michelle taught us. She has the tutorial on her Blog. I tried not to deviate to much from her original design…I wanted to recreate her look EXACTLY! I didn’t think I did too bad with her assistance on my first try! I love the reflection of the moon on the water. Beautiful!
This second card is one I tried to recreate from pictures of our trip to Hilton Head last year. We watched the sunrise from our room. The sun turned the sky into such beautiful shades of red before finally turning the sky light blue. I tried to recreate the sand dunes and the grasses and wild sea oats with the stamp set Embrace Life. (of note…I need to purchase some more nature type stamps so I can do more of the Zindorf technique!!!) Then, tried to recreate the darker reds at the bottom and how it blends into the lighter reds as it comes upward. Of course, even with the Stamp-a-ma-jig, I messed up the greeting and had to cover over it with the large oval punch. Rats!!! I had a piece of this double-sided satin ribbon in my stash and the colors matched perfectly. Not a Zindorf masterpiece, but I don’t think I did too bad all on my own.
Here is also a picture of the four of us at The Morgan House in Dublin, Ohio…a very nice tea room and gift shop! Left to right, Michelle Zindorf, Karen Barber, Mary Brown and me.
Today’s a busy day for me with several stamping assignments due. Need to get working on those. I also need to finish prepping for my Stamp Club this week. My husband sprained (broke?) his foot, too, so I’m trying to wait on him so he doesn’t get on it too much. I’m insisting he needs to go to the emergency room and he is resisting….men!
Connie
Love the cards!! Another great job!!!!!
Wow, with all that talent in one house…it’s a wonder it didn’t explode LOL!
Love your cards!!!!
Connie, Thanks again for being the most perfect hostess, letting me experience your wonderful stamp studio and teaching me a bit about 3D. Hugs!
Connie!
This is beautiful and I hope you’ll share this with our techniques group! Absolutely gorgeous!
Ah! Just lovely! AND you stamped with stamping royalty! I LOVE Karen….isn’t she just the sweetest?….and talented, too! I almost want to move to Ohio!!
Wonderful, Connie, and Lucky you! I think my head would have burst to have any of you in the room with me, much less all three! Can’t wait to see the rest of the projects.
Wow… what a gathering of amazing talent! You did an amazing job on your projects!! LOVE THEM! thanks for sharing! Patty Bennett
Fantastic!! Very beautiful cards, — I am in awe being able to gather ideas from such a talented group of ladies. These cards are especially timely, since being a newbee, I just did my first brayer cards Wednesday and I fell in love with the technique!