A friend recently returned from a trip to New York City and brought me a gift of some gorgeous handmade papers. They have a lovely thickness to them, so I thought I would try spritzing a piece with water and embossing it … and it worked perfectly. I positioned it on top of a piece … Read more
I had fun using the ink smooshing with acetate technique with Distress Inks to “paint” my new STAMPlorations Color Me Blooms Spring Florals. I went in and added a bit of watercolor marker to some spots and then I spattered the blooms with Speedball Acrylic Calligraphy gold ink. I paired the blooms with the STAMPlorations … Read more
I absolutely love this week’s Freshly Made Sketch. I had already been playing with GelliArts prints making my 4″ square collage for the mini.collage.collective challenge for International Collage Day. I matted it on a metallic copper painted GelliArts print to turn it into a card. I used a 1″ square punch for my sketch card. … Read more
I love the large size of the new Collage papers from STAMPlorations. For today’s cards, I trimmed two different STAMPlorations Botanical Beats Collage Papers down to 5″x7″ for two large cards with lots of room to write a note. For the first one, I covered the card base with the Collage Paper and then topped … Read more
The new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Man’s Best Friend – creating a card featuring an animal one might keep as a pet. Growing-up, our pet was a black and white beagle named Snoopy. She was an incredible partner. I particularly loved having her run beside me as I rode my bicycle around the … Read more
I looked thorugh my STAMPlorations stash and decided to make a coffee-themed card. I found various coffee-themed products in my stash, but I didn’t have a card front that coordinated, so I pulled out some ink and stamps, and altered one of the STAMPlorations Quick Cards #12 – Mixed Media A2 Card Fronts to make … Read more
This weekend, I had the joy of crafting with my people at Gather in Waunakee, Wisconsin. We took a little road trip to Creative Pals 30th Anniversary Celebration, where I picked-up this fun Umbrella Bloom Die by Spellbinders. It was perfect for Inspired by … April Showers, May Flowers Challenge. I tried using the three … Read more
This week at Shopping Our Stash the challenge is Up, Up and Away … creating cards with things you might see in the sky. It could be a balloon, bird, moon, sun, rainbow, plane … you get the picture. I decided to shop my paper stash for this week’s card and I landed on the … Read more
The newest TIME OUT Challenge is a Pick Two. I chose Pastels and Rain and took some umbrella inspiration from the Just Us Girls Challenge. I stamped the Essentials by Ellen Bear Wear Umbrella on three different colors of pastel cardstock. I positioned it one top of coordinating Washi Tape from 49 and Market Spectrum … Read more
I love the gorgeous STAMPlorations Quick Cards #3 – Spring Florals A2 Card Fronts. They make it so easy to pull together a gorgeous mailable card. My first card uses the A2 Card front to make a larger 5″ x 6 1/4″ card with a few coordinating cardstock layers that pull out the colors in … Read more