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
A few weeks ago, I saw a woman on Instagram using a tool to help align squares. I went hunting for it, and found out it was a book binding tool. Today I gave it a try together with 1 1/4″ squares punched from Gelliarts Prints. I paired the squares with a stamped sentiment from … Read more
During one of my artsy trips to Alabama, I colored these lovely older Pinkfresh Studio flowers using Spectrum Noir Tri Blend Markers. For this card, I cut them into a tag for the Seize the Birthday Add a Tag Challenge. I added purple ribbon and blue thread, and then I attached it to one of … Read more
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
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 continuing to spend some time on the weekend gel printing for the #marchprintingchallenge. Here are a few of my favorites. For day 5 Geometric, I die cut some circles. Day 6 was Stamp … I used my friend Dori Patrick’s Big Girl Panties Foamies Stamps. For Day 9 Ombre Challenge, I combined Blue & … Read more
Today I’m sharing a card set I made as a gift. I am Guest Designing for STAMPlorations featuring their Mixed Media Spring ATCs and Newsprint Blooms – Ephemera Tiles … both which are available through their Paper Subscriptions. I started by pairing blooms with ATCs. Next I went shopping in my gel printed backgrounds for … Read more
My job has been seriously interfering with my creative time lately, so I didn’t have the chance to start the GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge until this morning. I took an hour or so and got lost in printing, and it was magical. Seriously, when I get into that kind of creative flow, it lifts my spirit so … Read more
I love Monsters, and I have these adorable foam stickers in my Valentine’s Day stash, so I had to feature another one on a card. I started with this heart GelliArts print that was also tucked away in my drawer of Valentine’s Day Supplies and paired it with this week’s Freshly Made Sketch. I paired … Read more
Today’s card features one of my GelliArts prints, wooden hearts, a heart sticker, and a sentiment from Kristina Werner’s You Are the Best. I cut my gel print for the Sketch from the Inspire.Create. Challenge. I built my design using three of the colors from the Sunday Stamps Love is in the Air Challenge. And … Read more