As many of you know, I make holiday cards all year long, so I have enough when December rolls around. Today I’m sharing two Christmas cards I made with STAMPlorations Quick Cards #15 – Simply Christmas A2 Card Fronts. For the first one, I used some new watercolors to paint the STAMPlorations Holiday Lattes Poinsettia … Read more
My sister is 13 years younger than me and my brother is 20 years younger, so when they were kiddos, I would always try to go home and color Easter Eggs with them. Those are such fun memories. Today I’m having fun decorating paper Easter Eggs using Pretty Pink Posh Build an Egg Die Set. … Read more
I used the sketch from A Cherry On Top for a Mother’s Day Card. I started with the Doodlebug Design Love You Bunches Doodle-Pops and found a Gelliarts Print in my stash that magically pulled in all of the colors. I cut it into the squares for the Sketch and attached the bouquet together with … Read more
I’m sneaking in a card for Amy T’s Woodblock Wednesday featuring some oldies but goodies from Starving Artistamps from 2008. I paired three woodblock stamps with the Sketch from Retro Rubber Challenge. I stamped all three on coral cardstock and used colored pencils to add some shadows and highlights. I finished with a sticker sentiment.
This card started with a page from a vintage dictionary that ended with the definition for Mother. I went through a number of my Tim Holtz Ephemera packs pulling out yellow flowers and other elements that pulled out the green of the leaves … and then collaged them on top of the dictionary page. I … Read more
When I see a Sketch like the one at Atlantic Hearts Sketch, I immediate head to my designer paper scraps to see what I can pull together. I decided to pull out papers in Purple and Marigold for the current Color Hues Color Challenge (also my high school colors). I used one of the purple … Read more
I’ve been a Snoopy fan since early childhood when we got a Black and White Beagle puppy and named him Snoopy. He was my faithful friend on all of my bicycle rides … and we had to rescue him from the Dog Pound more than once after he headed out hunting rabbits and got caught. … Read more
Whimsical describes something playfully quaint, fanciful, imaginative and slightly odd … often suggesting a lighthearted, unpredictable or charmingly unusual quality not based on strict logic. For our newest prompt at Jingle Belles – Walking in a Whimsical Wonderland – we’re asking you to use that definition and make a Whimsical holiday card … it might … Read more
This week I had some creative fun with STAMPlorations Color Me products. Remember, there are lots of ways to use colorable products, even if you’re not a fan of coloring with pencils or markers. For these cards, I used an inky technique with Distress Oxide Inks. I applied Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide … Read more
