Eff the pigment inks!

DOWN with pigment inks. They suck. Even when I head them with my embossing gun I can still get residue off them when I touch them. The crafting world needs to get on the chalk ink bandwagon. Seriously. I don't care if they dry too fast, I LIKE it that way. My coffee table is covered in Starlite Silver and it's not cool. They say "fast drying on vellum" but they lie. Jerks.

My Trixie LTC isn't coming out exactly as I wanted. Being a perfectionist, I have a hard time dealing with this. But what can I do? I'm hoping if I leave them and go to bed, when I wake up in the morning I won't be so critical. Sometimes that works. Sometimes I rip them apart and start all over again. It's a toss up. I've already redone them 3 times. Right now I'm toying with the idea of sending everyone in the ring 2 cards. I like the one I made but you can't see the detail in the stamp I carved a well and I LOVE this stamp. As in, I want to stamp in on everything. Like my refrigerator, my walls and Trixie herself. I'm so proud of it, I just want it to be shown as well as it can be because it really represents my Trixie. I've cried several times in the process of making this card, it's such a hard thing for me to do. It's a long story but the short of it was that my house burned down in college and she's literally the only thing I walked away from it with other than a shoebox with random things. Ah, my sweet baby, I thank God every single day that I have her. That's really what this card is about and why it's so hard to make it just right.

In other news, Guns N Roses really is music to carve a stamp to. They can set a mood for anything. Bon Jovi, too. Too bad I wasn't old enough when they were big, I would have rocked out with mall hair and acid washed jeans at their concerts and it would have been amazing.