STAMPlorations has released another awesome stamp and ephemera combination – STAMPlorations Perfect Pairs – Classic Christmas. If you follow me at all, you know I make Christmas all year long, so I can get them into the mail and delivered to my large work team in December, so I was thrilled. I really love how … Read more
I love these fun little Campers of Cheer from STAMPlorations. There is a lot of Christmas in July going on right now, so I used them to make fun holiday cards for my camper-loving friends. For the first one, I parked my camper among the holiday trees on one of the STAMPlorations Simply Christmas Card … Read more
I just returned from another amazing session of Alabama Art Camp with my crafty friend Bev. I rate her art camp five stars … she had so many amazing artsy projects for us to complete this year. One of the things I love so much is that they are mostly projects that I don’t think … Read more
I loved coloring as a child. My Grandma and I would sit together for hours filling up coloring books. I felt that same relaxed feeling using my Ohuhu Alcohol Ink markers with STAMPlorations Color Me Blooms – Spring Florals. I positioned these blooms on top of a coordinated STAMPlorations Watercolor ATC that I stamped with … Read more
Quick Cards #9 – Thank You A2 Card Fronts are one of the new Paper Subscription products from STAMPlorations. I thought it would be fun to pair them with some spray & spatter. I started by spraying Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide Spray. Next, I added some darker orange metallic paint spatter. I die cut STAMPlorations … 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 week I had some creative fun with STAMPlorations Color Me products. Remember, there are lots of ways to use colorable products, even if you’re not a fan of coloring with pencils or markers. For these cards, I used an inky technique with Distress Oxide Inks. I applied Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide … Read more
This is a fun birthday collage card for my brother (who is an amazing large scale collage artist) that I made with all sorts of bits and bobs from my stash. I pulled out my glue stick and did a glue-as-you-go method without much preplanning. I started with the Tim Holtz Flash Cards and built … 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
I had so much fun taking a class from the talented Dori Patrick to make a Mixed Media Colorful Hearts canvas. It was the first time I had taken a class at this facility, and it was very comfortable for creating. I chose this card from my Color Cube to inspired by creating. We started … Read more