My friend, Norma.

Let me tell you about a new friend, Norma.  She's my Stampin Up demonstrator.  She lives in California and is amazing!!!  I met her through the blog world and ordered SU from her once and she's been my demonstrator since.  Just a few days ago, I got a cute little package in the mail with the Summer catalog with a whole lot of goodies!!!  I had to play, of course.  She always encourages me.  I really have grown fond of her.  You can check her blog out at pinkblingcrafter.  You can also check out her blinkie on the right column of my blog.  I cannot tell you how happy I was when I got her bag of goodies.  My goodness!  It was so nice of her!

Anyhow...I sent her a picture of a card I made that I wasn't too happy with because my handwriting (which is normally really nice) came out kind of yuck and I didn't want to post it.  She told me to post it because she loved it. So...here it is.   I used an image that she stamped and sent me in the package, which I colored with colored pencils and blended it with the SU blender pens.  I also added crystal gel to the jar to make it look real.  Because I am crazy about bling, I added stickles to the flowers and to the heart and swirl under "felicidades" which loosely translated means Congratulations in Spanish, but it's also used as a Happy Birthday type of phrase.

The paper is concorde crush cardstock and Norma sent it to me already embossed.  Sorry I don't know the name of the embossing folder.  The base is just plain white Georgia Pacific cardstock from Walmart.  :)

I really hope you like it.  I'm kind of growing fond of it myself.