Michele

I don't have access to the pics I took in Ireland as they were not digital and they ended up in storage. Instead, I decided to make stamps from some floral pics I had taken during a spring walk a number of years ago.

I had a lot of trouble with this tutorial. It's taken me a couple of days to get these done. In fact, I tried so many different things that I'm not sure I know what I did. By the time I got a result I liked, I had no idea how I got there. For someone who usually keeps great notes, this is very frustrating. lol

Quick question, @Cassel. When applying the fine leather texture, why use the blur at all?

Absolutely incredible!

These are my Day 3 date stamps. The first one was simply following the tutorial step by step including the "aging." In the second one, I actually used one of Cassel's preset gem shapes and kept it "new."

Love clusters!

A little late, but here's my Day 2. My trip was in February 2002 and people were still very rattled so soon after 9/11 (as you can well imagine). Some of them told me not to go, but I said, "If I don't, they win."

Years ago when I went out to get into my car to go to work, there was a preying mantis on my side view mirror. I drove all the way to work (some of the time on a highway) and it was still there! Talk about stick-to-itiveness.

Thanks, @Jenifer Lyn. Though I don't have any Irish in my ancestry, I'm in love with the music and culture. I had an opportunity to go for only two or three days with a group, but I would have gone if it was only for one day! If you ever get a chance to go, you should. It's a gorgeous country and the people are lovely.

@Gerry Landreth, I'm going to be using that phrase from now on. I suffer from it quite often. ?