For the past 11 days, I've been having fun with Catherine Rains free Collage Joy Taster Class. We started the class by making a variety of papers to use for collage using only a two paint color palette. It was fun pushing myself to get the color values I needed to get the contrast in … Read more
I've been thinking a lot about collage lately. I'm taking a free Collage Joy Taster Class, which has inspired me to make new collage papers. Today in the online class, we finally start assembling some collages. Here's a collage I made with the intent of it being a card. I started with an … Read more
It's time for #gelprintJanuary again … so there's been a lot of paper making going on in the studio. For the Day 1 Letter prompt, I started with a Joggles Three Circle foamie stamp that reminded me of the Letter "O". For Day 2, Shape, I stuck with circles using a … Read more
Lauren and I are back for our 15th Year of Christmas Mayhem at Jingle Belles where we take back our December one card at a time. If you're unfamiliar with our quest, 15 years ago we decided it would be easier to get enough unique Christmas cards made if we did them all year long, … Read more
After seeing Lauren's take on the stamp Christmas Tree, and being reminded by my friend Karen of her fabulous stamp-y Ornament cards from several years ago, I had to pull out my trading stamps and vintage Spellbinders Nestabilities Ornament Die and make another stamping tag. I added a stripe of glitter foil using … Read more
Last week, Lauren shared this Instagram video by Katie Pertiet where she used stamp & ticket ephemera to collage and die cut a Christmas Tree. I knew I wanted to try the same technique with the postage stamps I have in my collection from the Postal Museum … if only I could remember where I … Read more
For the December @mini.collage.collective Challenge they have chosen Green as the theme. I started with a 3 7/8" square of Green Gelliarts Print. Next I added my favorite green from my childhood … S&H Green Stamps. Then I added some Korn King Stamps as well. Since I had a red & green theme … Read more
I think the quote on this card applies to more than just creativity … at least that's how my life feels right now (my tendency is to hold on tight to certainly with both fists). I made this card when Lauren and I had Art Camp earlier this year. I water colored an ATC sized … Read more
One of the things on the plan for Stephanie & Lauren's Art Camp 2024 was to make some ATCs to exchange with our friend Linda Brun. I decided to combine that plan with themes from #collactober2024 collage challenge. I started with Prompt 03 Red Balloon after I found the perfect red balloon image … Read more
I've enjoyed another week of GelliArts Printing for the #abcprintingchallenge. H is for Household items had me printing with an Egg Carton. I is for Image Transfer. It took me ten tries, but I finally got a really good one. J is for Jack-o-Lantern was my worst print of … Read more