The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a Halloween Card or alternatively create a card featuring colors usually associated with Halloween – Orange, Black, Green, Lime and/or Purple. I built my card around this Essentials by Ellen Hey Boo Die Cut Sentiment, which I positioned on two layers of vellum. … Read more
I laughed out loud when I saw the current Sketch Challenge at Just Add Ink. I have had two alcohol inked gelliprinted die cut hexagons on my studio table for weeks. I almost threw them away twice, but decided I loved them too much not to find them a home .. and then viola … … Read more
Always fun to join Amy T for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall/Winter Blog Hop. I started with the Coffee To Go Die from Impression Obsession. Then I took my inspiration from the Fusion Card Challenge Autumn Challenge (with a slight twist on the sketch since I wanted my strip of leaf paper … Read more
The Card Concept is all about Thanksgiving. I won't lie, the only reason I volunteer to slice the turkey is so I can eat all of the crispy bits of turkey skin … and I am also all about the pie. I incorporated the pumpkins from the inspiration picture as well as the … Read more
My card today is for the current Inspired by Challenge … thankful & grateful. I started by Die Cutting Leaf Paper from DCWV Fall Gathering Collection in a shape inspired by the Window in the picture. I placed it on white wood grain paper inspired by the background in the picture. I … Read more
I used some new glittery designer paper from DCWV Halloween Garden for this week's CAS(e) this Sketch! The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp Cathy Zielske Set Hollaween. My embellishment is a 3-D Glittery Spider sticker.
When I saw that the current Retro Rubber Challenge was Spring Flowers, I thought it was a good opportunity to go through the drawers of my older stamps. It's probably reached the time to purge and reorganize, but I'm just not quite there yet. I found the Birthday Art Set by Wendy Vecchi that … Read more
Each year I like to go back and revisit all the art I made and choose my ten favorites from the group (You can see my Five Favorite Holiday Cards of 2019 here) … here are my favorites in no particular order. I found it a little challenging to narrow down the group this year, … Read more
I watched this video by PaperArtsy on making brayered chalk paint backgrounds, and I knew I wanted to try it. I didn't however want to ship all of my chalk paints to New Jersey, so I tried it with regular acrylic paints instead. I was really happy with my first attempt … these will … Read more