When I visited my friend Beverly, she showed me how to use her ScanNCut (since I have one still in the box that I need to find a stand for). We used it to cut out the beautiful bouquets from Penny Black Charisma stamp set. Then we had fun coloring while we watched a movie … Read more
Week 7 of #dyicad2023 is complete. Day 43 was Patina. One of my favorite effects to try to create with my Gelliarts gel press is Patina. Day 44 is Wabi-Sabi – Wabi sabi is a Japanese term referring to the appreciation of the beauty of imperfection, impermanence, and simplicity as the natural … Read more
The July Penny Black Saturday Challenge is The Great Outdoors. I chose a lovely outdoor image from Penny Black Woodland Splendor Stickeroos and framed it with a thin layer of black cardstock. I paired it with a sentiment from Penny Black Words of Encouragement together with a wrap of gold thread.
Instead of a Hard Candy Christmas, we're having a NO Stamping Christmas at jingle Belles this week. Have fun pulling out your embossing folders, die cuts, Cricut cuts, stamps and stickers to create your holiday card design. I started with one of my Gel Press prints in colors from the Christmas Kickstart Challenge. … Read more
Another fun thing my friend Cyndie and I did when we were together was play with Alcohol inks and metallic mixatives. Tonight I turned several of those panels into Mother's Day Cards with Penny Black Bouquet Masterpieces and Penny Black Stitches of Love Dies. I used a a variation … Read more
One of the Penny Black Bright Bouquet Masterpieces is the perfect image for a Mother's Day Card and the Penny Black Saturday Challenge I embossed it and a green cardstock panel with Penny Black Stitches of Love dies. I finished with a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Sassy Mama by … Read more
The February Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to incorporate Hearts or Flowers. I started with a Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple Adorable Amore. I love how they fit exactly into the Penny Black Stitches of Love Dies to add a bit more texture. I used the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch with a … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles we're Stuck on You. Stickers were one of the very first things I started collecting when I began making cards … and I'm guessing you have some in your stash too. They might be fun little 3-D images or sentiment strips … whatever your sticker of choice, we're asking you … Read more
The Jingle Belles are Ringing in the Christmas Bells with our prompt this week … so we'd like to see cards with sleigh bells, church bells, jingle bells, silver bells or… well, whatever kind of bell you can think of. I went with a new-to-me Penny Black Ring the Bells stamp. I thought I would … Read more
The Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Anything goes with an Optional theme of Something New. I had these gorgeous Penny Black Masterpieces Made Simple Bright Bouquets in my newly purchased products that were just screaming to be on a card. I discovered that they fit perfectly in one of the Penny Black Stitches of Love … Read more