Good morning everyone!! NO…I DIDN’T fall off the face of the earth. It just happens to be December and I am busy with concerts. I just sang the alto and soprano II solos in the Bach Magnificat on Sunday night and it went well. I had juries for all of the voice students at Drexel today, but now I am free! Well…if you don’t include a Messiah next weekend, another gig on Sunday morning with full orchestra and up to NYC to see a concert of another Messiah the following weekend. I am so excited to go up and hear the best voice in the world right now in my opinion at the end of the month. I get to hear Andreas Scholl. I am waiting to be lifted up by the most genuinely beautiful singing known to man! So great. I have seen Andreas sing before at the beginning of his career. What a treat for John and I. Yes, he also loves his voice and we are wholeheartedly looking forward to going to this concert together.

OK…on to my project for the day. This ended up being pretty special! I knew it would be, but I really enjoyed the process of creating during this one. I will be bringing this to my family Christmas party the day after Christmas to be entered in one of those many “gift-giving-type-game-things” that you play at family parties. I wanted the gift to be special. So let me know what you think!

When using Papertrey Stamps, I love mixing and matching sets. The embossed emblem in which the sentiment sits comes from the “Sweet Love” set. The sentiment itself comes from the “Take a Bough” set. See how well it fits? PLEASE don’t just look in one of your cases when working with stamps! Look and see what would make a nice accompaniment with other sets to see how well they integrate together! This is so much more fun, and you begin to build different uses for different sets! Now for the inside:

These duck eggs were blown out and cleaned, the painted using Pearl Ex pigments 6 pack starter kit mixed in matte finish mod podge. You must wear a dust mask when using these pigments, as the dust is very fine and can easily be inhaled. Just mix the two together in a small bowl as to not waste anything, and paint as desired. I finished the egg ornament off with a nice small copper bead and some pretty cord for hanging. I got both of these items at my local bead store. I would love to know the color combo you like best, as I am having a hard time choosing which one is my favorite. Really…I would love to hear. Gold egg with copper on top, copper egg with gold on top, or copper egg with antique silver on top?  It will help me make decisions of how to paint them next time. The special paper used on the Papertrey Egg box is stunning Windsor foil paper by SEI and can be found here.

Stamps: Take a Bough, Sweet Love

Paper: SEI Windsor Foil, Dark Chocolate card stock

Ink: Versamark

Ribbon: Dark Chocolate Grosgrain

Other: Papertrey Egg Box, Gold Filigree Embossing Powder, Duck Eggs (thanks to my sister-in-law who has like 1,000 ducks), Red line Tape (seriously, this is the biggest role of tape I have ever seen, and that is good, because I go through this stuff like it’s water!) Pearl-Ex pigment

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