Parcel Paper Love....

Ok I really did not think that having a tooth extracted would cause me so much trouble, but it did! my god the pain..... Yes I do mean that, anybody that knows me knows that I live with chronic pain and have done so for nearly nine years. However I would put tooth ache on a par with childbirth in the pain stakes (yes you may laugh), this coming from a woman who was in slow labour for seven days and full labour for nearly twenty seven hours.... Having my tooth out made me feel like such a baby, Mark kept putting his arms around me to reassure me that it was ok but it did not feel ok.... anyway I am on antibiotics yet again and hopefully with the tooth extracted and the anti biotics I will not with luck have any more trouble with my teeth for a long time to come, I HATE GOING TO THE DENTIST!

Sadly I am still having some problems with my laptop, not of the virus kind, but I thought that I had transferred all of the important stuff onto my separate hard drive, however it turned out I had missed a load of stuff including my watermark, which it turns out has gone past its seven day down load on Whimsy Stamps. I am still waiting for them to let me know if I can download the watermark again or if I have to pay and order again... bummer...

I thought that for speed today I would just show you another card I created with parcel paper, I have a really cool show and tell for later in the week, I created some backing paper and it turned out pretty good, you will have to come back to see later in the week... I really want to catch up on some blog surfing today so just a quickie and I would say a pretty simple one too....

Again all I did was attach some parcel paper to some card stock (remember to iron the parcel paper it makes it more manageable), then I stitched a simple running stitch around the outside of the panel. I used Tim Holtz Walnut Ink to distress the outside edge of the panel. Then stamped the Magnolia Swirl image in Ruby Red Stampin Up Ink and attached some chipboard hearts using brads and linen string, they have been coloured a similar red colour using oil pastels, I attached them so that they looked like they were hanging from the swirl branches... I finished the hearts with black crystals and added wording on the hearts using a letraset ink pen just to keep the cost down and show what you can do with very little. A big red bow using Stampin Up red satin ribbon finished the front panel. The whole panel was attached to a black panel then to a Kraft card blank, (I think I have a thing for Kraft card blanks!) Inside I stamped simple Magnolia Swirls in Ruby Red SU Ink and attached one more heart. The back has a similar panel with another Magnolia Swirl and my hand made by panel. I created an envelope using Parcel paper and stamped the same Magnolia Swirl just to co-ordinate with the card... Voila another simple card using Parcel Paper.... I think I’m hooked on parcel paper......I really hope you like my parcel paper creations they just go to show what you can do with parcel paper...

Ingredients

Parcel Paper – Black & Kraft Card Stock – Chip Board Hearts – Oil Pastel – Stampin Up Red Ribbon, Ruby Red Ink, Red Brads – Tim Holtz Walnut Ink, Rock Candy Stickles – Magnolia Swirl Stamp – Black Crystals – Janome Sewing Machine...