The February Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to incorporate Hearts or Flowers. I started with a Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple Adorable Amore. I love how they fit exactly into the Penny Black Stitches of Love Dies to add a bit more texture. I used the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch with a … Read more
The February Poppystamps Challenge is Me & You … the perfect opportunity to create another valentine. I started by die cutting the Poppystamps Heart Confetti Collage from some lovely salmony pink glitter paper. I backed it with a soft pink marker colored paper. Next I used the Sketch from Try Stampin' … Read more
Cathy Zielske's Love Your Guts Die Cut is one of my favorites, so I decided to pair it with one of my Gel Prints and some vellum for some fun Valentines. I just love the combination of purple & lime green. I'm linking this one up at the Country View Be Sentiment Challenge. … Read more
The current Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge is G is for Glitter. The only glitter I really like to create with is glitter paper where none of the glitter rubs off … otherwise I invariably find glitter on my skin & all over my studio for days. Today in the mail I got … Read more
Last year at our Scrapbook House Outing, I made lots of fun Alcohol Ink Panels. This one featured lots of pinks including new glittery alcohol inks from Couture Creations. It's glittery all over, but in the photo it's most visible at the top left and I die cut the panel with a stitched … Read more
When I saw this chalk printing video by Cassie Stephenz, I knew I didn't have the high pigment chalk she used, but I was curious if any of the chalks I had in my studio might produce a similar effect. All I could find were these vintage Pebbles Shimmer Chalks, so I figured I would … Read more
I am so grateful to have so many people in my life who could be the recipient of this card. I made it with four different Uniko Stamps to celebrate Uniko's 10th Birthday with an Instagram Shared design. I used the colors from The Paper Players Color Challenge to stamp Uniko … Read more
The theme at Shopping our Stash is My Heart BEETS for you – to make a card featuring Hearts or Vegetables (or both). We're big Schrute Farms fans at our house (it's the name of my husband's fantasy baseball team), so there we have several pieces of beet-themed art. And of course, I couldn't resist … Read more
I tried another Distress Oxide ink-blending combination using the colors from Hand Stamped Sentiments (which I translated to Speckled Egg, Dried Marigold & Brushed Corduroy). I used the layout from the TGIF Challenges and the Simon Say Stamp Frame It Challenge to complete my design. I cut my blended panel in half and … Read more
One thing that has changed about my crafting since March is the joy of doing it on Video Calls with crafty friends. I was so used to crafting in solitude … but being able to talk with others and hear about their lives and how quarantine is going in different corners of the world has … Read more