Cleaning stamps

oh my! I don't clean stamps during classes and perhaps I should! I've spent the last 3 hours cleaning them! And look how dirty they were!



Of course, I ruined my stazon cleaner bottle and totally ran out of stuff



And then I remembered I had this stuff. Motsenbocker's Lift off 3. Takes off pen, ink and marker. So I thought I'd try it on my stamps.



It works exactly as good as stazon cleaner! And so much cheaper! You just spritz it on and I used a veggie scrubber to clean the stamps with. Got it at the hardware store, but you can buy it online. Lift Off. (Edited to try and fix this link. Hit return when you get to that URL, or just type in liftoffinc.com and then select # 3.) I love it when I find a product that saves me money! OK, I know, it's just money I will spend on something else!

I spent the morning unpacking and know that I had too much fun shopping in San Diego. Still one more box to arrive. Can hardly wait to start playing with everything I found! So stay tuned!

Card-making with quilt scraps!

In the back of the store, there are huge boxes filled with quilt scraps that are for sale. $3.00 for 50 pieces. They are the remnants from a company that makes medical scrubs and bundled in matching "pieces". I went through some of the boxes just to see what was there and pulled out a few pieces and decided that we could make "bling" cards. Mind you that "bling" just does not show up in the camera's eye....but they still look pertty good!



I used white staz-on ink for the flourish stamps. Nestabilities to cut the windows.



Took a fine tipped glue pen and drew over the lines in the fabric, dropped glitter down, dusted off the excess. I think you can see the detail here:



For this one, I cut the flower out, then laid it on top of the card and "sealed" the edges with glossy accents. Used Ranger's white pen to alter the flourish stamps.



Getting a ton of comments on these this week! Maybe we can make some on Friday! But is this not gorgeous fabric? I've yet to meet the nurse wearing these as scrubs! There are hundreds more patterns in the boxes, so if you quilt and live in San Diego, come on down and just come to the back of the store!