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
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
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
STAMPlorations is releasing a very awesome new product on March 15th – Collage Papers. I am Guest Designing with the set called Industrial Patchwork. For the first card, I cut one design of paper into strips and then wove the strips together to create the background. Next, I used black ink to stamp multiple images … Read more
With the next Jingle Belles prompt Fa-La-La-La-La we’re celebrating one of our favorite things at jingle belles … Christmas Music. We’re asking you to create a card (or gift card holder, or whatever else you’ll be needing for the holidays) that incorporates music, musical instruments, or even the title of a favorite Christmas Carol. I … Read more
Since my beloved Mark’IT Markers have been discontinued, the hunt for another fine tip marker led me to Faber-Castell Goldfaber Aqua Dual Markers. For their inaugural coloring adventure, I paired them with STAMPlorations Framed Flowers Colorables (you can see all of the Colorables Here). I’m linking up my colored blooms at the Passion for Markers … Read more
Sherry at STAMPlorations has re-opened her shop for new products, and I’m thrilled to be doing some Guest Designing with products that she shared with me. Today’s cards feature her Quick Card Fronts #3 – Spring Florals. This is part of her Card Fronts Subscription where you get to pick a new Card Fronts to … Read more
Shery at STAMPlorations is focusing on growing her store again, and one of the fun things she has added are these great card front sets that she has as part of her subscription series. She graciously sent me the Junk Journal Collage set, and I had a lot of fun creating with them (you can … Read more
We're still getting Sketchy at Jingle Belles this week. I started with a Concord & 9th Cup of Kindness adorned with an Eyelet Outlet Retro Christmas Tree brad I paired it with papers from Pebbles Cozy and Bright and a sentiment from STAMPlorations Caffeinated Christmas. I finished with two enamel dots. … Read more
We're still celebrating Earth Day at Jingle Belles by making holiday card using recycled items. My card started with one of these painted rainbow backgrounds which were the Stencil packaging for Vicki Boutin Mixed Media Stencils. I die cut one of them with a large tag die. Next I pieced together the Java … Read more