Our newest prompt at Jingle Belles is Dashing through the SNOW. We are asking you to create projects that celebrate the white fluffy flakes of snow … it might be snowmen, snowflakes or just snowfall, but include some snow on your cards. I was thrilled that my new Kristina Werner Snowflake Season Border Dies arrived … Read more
I'm still having fun with Birgit Koopsen's May Gel Printing Challenge, which is focused on unique tools this year. #birgitkoopsengelprintingchallenge This was my print made with what she called Cotton Buds (Q-Tips in my world). I loved the fun of random dotting. Next tool on the list was a random found object … … Read more
Have you tried the Ranger Mica Sprays … man, they are lovely. This card started with a piece of cardstock sprayed with the Hocus Pocus Purple. Next I stamped & embossed the sentiment from Dena Zinski Art from PaperArtsy in the center with Ranger Archival Black Ink, which I clear embossed to make … Read more
Once of the goals for my crafty trip to North Dakota was for Becca (aka Damsel of Distressed) to teach me how she makes her mixed media canvases (click on over to see her amazing creation). Messy and relatively unstructured creating are not my comfort-zone, but I hung in there with the process and … Read more
This week's Wanderlust lesson by Mary Beth Shaw of StencilGirl was our final on the subject of Serendipity. MaryBeth's project didn't include any text (other than some covered journaling) or focal images. It just focused on the Serendipitous process of creating art. She did some creating with bleeding tissue paper and with napkins (but I … Read more
We're still on the Serendipity theme at Wanderlust this week with our instructor the talented Carolyn Dube. Her lesson was planned Serendipity since we chose five or so random supplies to use to create (but didn't limit ourselves to that if the design called for something else). Here is what I chose from walking around … Read more
Sometimes cards are well planned and thought out … and other times creativity is just for a general release and silliness. Tonight is the latter. This little PaperArtsy Zinski Mini (AN38) looked-up at me from a box of stamps I was trying to organize, and I knew he needed to see some ink. I … Read more
I loved getting to try Paper Artsy products and meet the owners of Paper Artsy when I took my class at Creativation with Seth Apter. I also enjoyed seeing all of their fun stamps at their booth. They have a Bunting & Banners Challenge on their Blog for April, so I wanted to join the … Read more