Whiff of Joy #17

First of all, I'm standing up and doing the happy dance. Thankfully none of you can see me, because it's pretty embarrassing. :) I received the results of my PET/CT yesterday, and am over-the-top happy to say...I am 100% CANCER FREE!!! Finally! This has been a long hard road, and I am so happy to finally hear this news! I would like to thank each and every one of you who have sent kind messages here on my blog and via e-mail, wishing me well, telling me I was in your prayers. You have no idea the power that has! So, thank you, thank you, thank you!


So I'll stop dancing [for now] and get to my card.

I had not used this Whiff of Joy image yet, still have a few that haven't seen ink, so here it is on this card for Whiff of Joy Challenge 17. This week was a great sketch by Donalda. I turned it on its side. This image is called "Melinda's Books", stamped on a piece of sepia DP, then colored with regular and metallic Prismacolor pencils, without blending on the books. Added gold Liquid Pearls to the spine, and Stickless to the bookmark flower. Cut and embossed the image with Curved Rectangle Nestabilities. The border was colored and blended with Prismacolor pencil and baby oil. All DP is from Hot Off The Press, including gorgeous Background vellum with different handwritten looking notes. Border punch from Fiskars, and the flowers are from a MS punch called Hydrangeas. They have Weathered Lavender Stickles in the center; these don't sparkle like the regular Stickles, are called "distressed" so are more muted, but still gorgeous. Sentiment from Verve. Used Dew Drops for my corners.

Stamps: Whiff of Joy Melinda's Books, Verve Fairy Tales.

Paper: HOTP Scrappapers and Heritage paper packs, The Paper Studio CS.

Ink: Stazon, Colorbox Queues.

Accessories: Distress Stickles, Fiskars border punch, Dew Drops, corner rounder, Nestabilities, Liquid Pearls, MS Flower punch.