Ranger products - just gets better and better :) perfect pearls pigment powder

so as most of you know i have been absolutely obssessed with the Tim Holtz 12 tags of christmas tutorials on his blog. WELL i got around to tag 6 and started playing with the perfect pearls pigment powder - which i had saved til last because i was a bit skeptical/scared to be honest. well i am here to tell you i fell in love! (how many times have you heard that from me in the last month??) this stuff is awesome!!!! first of all just stamping in versamark or perfect medium and then brushing the powder over the stamp produces incredibly shimmery results. but THEN i followed Tim's directions and mixed some with reinker and water - oh WOW. i mixed it in a mini mister and it gives me this fine mist spray of the most shimmery pearlescent sheen i have ever seen - glitter cardstock no more!!! this is far better - and my favorite part is that i can use whatever reinker matches my cardstock and paper colors (i'm an SU girl) and my project is perfectly coordinated. it's going to be a very shimmery easter around here i can tell ya!!! now for all you cricut lovers - Tim's tag uses a mask made by Heidi Swapp but i am here to tell you it's not necessary - we can make whatever masks we want with our fab little friend the cricut. just cut your shape of choice out of cardstock, put temporary adhesive on the back. stick it to your card paper, spritz away with the glimmery spray and let dry. then peel your mask right off - works perfectly. i hope to have something to show you tomorrow. another wonderful thing about this stuff - when you put ink over it the shimmer still shows through - like when you stamp over it or ink your edges. the pictures i have DO NOT do this stuff justice - so glad i decided to put it all on my site - so get yourself some and play!!!!

Holy cow i scrapbooked!!!!!! or poor neglected cricut

ok so i am slightly behind but not bad on my scrapbooking. i have been having WAY too much fun playing with ew products and learning new techniques as i decide what to add to my website for ya'll. it's Ranger Ink and Tim Holtz products hands down. Something that is looking real popular is the re-inkers mixed with perfect pearls powder and water in the mini mister to create a pearlized spray - awesome. also busy planning something super secret and super special for ya'll that i truly think you'll love - but it's still under wraps for now while i work on finalizing things. keep yourselves updated here!! now back to my layouts... these are my halloween pics and a couple pics from around halloween that my mom took.

The monkey from the zoobaloo cricut cartridge matched Pez's costume perfectly. Trev and his friends went as Emos - not to offend anyone - if i was a teen today i am pretty sure i would be dubbed emo :P but for my little jock kid it was a hysterical change. i was really stuck on what i would do for journaling on it because i wasn't sure how to explain emo - then on the blog things website i ran across a questionnaire called "are you emo?" it describes it perfectly!

Next is a layout of pez antics i did using some close to my heart items i got recently - paper and stamp set - i just love them. cut the title with the alphalicious cricut cartridges for all of these.

"Shenaganins" is a silly word from my childhood - my brother and i are only one year apart and my mom would be trying to bath us and we would be running around uncooperative. she would say stop this shenanigans and we would run around singing shenaganins, shenaganins. pez does quite a bit of shenaganins.

finally here is a card for my super fabulous but lately very neglected DH for our anniversary today. i used the same CTMH stamps set, bazzill bling paper and embossed with red pearl over fired brick distress ink and detail silver over versamark- all Ranger products OF COURSE! LOVE their embossing powders - all are fabulous. there's alot more bling to this card than what shows up in the picture :) man oh man do i love some bling.....

Lastly i leave you with a silly pic of two of the "cherubs" - trev put his hoody on the baby - she didn't know what was going on.