And then it happened, my Blushing Bride ink pad was suddenly in two pieces. It's not as if I don't get ink all over everything as it is, and there went the ink side over the island and across a page of beautifully stamped images.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I remembered a how-to on You Tube and searched for 'How To Fix a Broken Stamp Pad.' Katherine Turner to the rescue! I chuckled at her intro:
"if you watched my last video, you would have seen a stamp pad fly across the table - I'm sure it's happened to a lot of other people ..."
I will have to say that it took more than once for me to reattach the two sides; I don't know what I was afraid of, the ink pad was already broken! But I stopped and started and rewound the video until I was able to successfully slide and snap the two sides back together. Enough of the pinks, onto the greens.
I did have fun with all of the color combinations, though, pulling out ink colors that haven't seen the light of day in a long while ~ remember Certainly Celery? I stamped dozens of images and I am going to share them with my stampin' sister-in-law who guessed first and correctly where I drew the inspiration for my new blog's banner: Wynken, Blynken and Nod, a children's poem by Eugene Field.
(Another stampin' friend answered at the same time, so Judy has a treat headed her way, too.)
I was going to work with the hummingbird from the same Picture Perfect stamp set, but after my ink incident, I'll leave that for another day.
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