Today I needed to get a Father's Day card done, so it can be sent across the globe to arrive on time. I used stamps from Raisin Boat Nailed It! to stamp the background on a kraft card base. Those little tools stamped so well with my MISTI. Next I stamped three sentiments … Read more
The December Unity Stamp Company Challenge is All About Backgrounds. I have an affinity for red rubber background stamps, so needless to say, there are a few in my stash that are un-inked. This was the perfect opportunity to break one out and ink it up. I inked the Unity Stamp Company Blanket of Snow … Read more
The December Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is – Let It Snow. I stamped all of the snowflakes from Gina K. Designs Blizzard stamp set in Medium Lilac Ink on lilac cardstock using my MISTI and then trimmed it into a slimline card. I added some enamel dots in … Read more
We're channeling our inner Elvis at Jingle Belles this week and creating a BLUE Christmas. I decided to shop my Gel Press drawer for my blues using a fabulous Sketch from Sketch~N~Scrap … and of course some perfect blue inks from Catherine Pooler. The sentiment is from Unity Stamp Company Holiday Joy Christmas … Read more
The May Challenge at Poppy Stamps is Floral Fantasy. I pulled out my Poppy Stamps Peony Bouquet and decided to revisit an inking technique from this inky card from two years ago. I used my MISTI to stamp the Peony image with fade-out grey ink and then grabbed a combination of yellow and … Read more
The January Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to create a card that combines water with her water-reactive dye inks … somehow I missed the memo (or forgot) that her inks reacted with water, so I had to immediately do some playing. I started by stenciling Gina K. Designs Stencil Bundle … Read more
I had several possible ideas for the 30th #staycraftywithhero Hero Arts Circle Challenge, but I knew it needed to be a birthday card for a very special friend. When I went searching through my Hero Arts crafty inventory, I found this never-been-inked Circle Background from the August My Monthly Hero Arts Kit. I … Read more
Day 3 of the 12 Tags of Christmas at Ellen Hutson is Feliz Navidad. I never realized the song only has only 2 lines sung over and over again. So in keeping with that theme, I used my MISTI and two colors of Versafine Clair Ink to stamp the Feliz Navidad sentiment from … Read more
The June #TEMakerChallenge has the following elements: As I hunted through my various holiday stamps, I saw the repeating Joy stencil in the Holiday Stencil Strips and immediately started singing Happy Happy, Joy Joy in my best Ren & Stimpy voices, and I knew what my card was going to be … I just … Read more
I was thrilled to get some of the 2021 early Hero Arts Stamp Shop Box releases from The Ink Pad (which are so super-cool they sold out but are now back in stock). I am also thrilled to be Guest Designing at the Ink Pad Blog to share my first card. I had … Read more