The Challenge theme at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is A is for ATC. My new STAMPlorations snarky stamps designed by my friend Chris Dring arrived in the mail together with some ATC-sized images to go with the stamps. I trimmed the image down ever-so-slightly, so I could frame it with a pop … Read more
The current Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge is celebrating Sister Chris' new release at STAMPlorations. I pre-ordered her fun sets and am waiting for them to arrive. I combined the challenge with the current Fusion Card Challenge Bookshelf Challenge. I created my background using the Fusion Card Challenge Sketch and Eyelet … Read more
One of my favorite things about creating in person with another artist is getting their feedback on designs and channeling their style as you watch them create. This card started with a little piece of cut-off gel press print that the Damsel of Distressed had made with the Shower of Flutters stencil from STAMPlorations. I … Read more
Another Gel Print card made during my Art Camp with the Damsel of Distressed. This print was made using the Placid Stencil from ARTplorations together with another die from Becca's collection that I thought coordinated well. I had a lot of fun creating little poems with the Tim Holtz sentiment stickers. I'm linking-up … Read more
One of the items on my Grand Forks travel agenda was to give the Damsel of Distressed (go give Becca a Like) her first Gel Printing experience. We had so much fun creating, we never wanted to stop … and needless to say, she was a super-quick learner (and bought us matching shirts from Unglued … Read more
For the next prompt at Jingle Belles, we're asking you to step away from the designer paper … yes, put it away … none allowed … not even a scrap … because the next prompt is to create a card using only CARDSTOCK. You can tear it, ink it, stamp it, spray it, emboss it … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles we're creating with the traditional holiday color palette of Red and Green. I started by going through my stack of Gel Press Prints and pulled out all that were red or green. Then I picked two that I thought worked well together. I paired it with a fun Santa … Read more
It's one of my favorite times of the year again … the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. To me, STAMPlorations has some of the very best Coffee-themed products. As I was looking through all of my choices, I realized I had never used this gorgeous Zen Coffee 1 Cover Plate Die. I decided to … Read more
I am lucky enough to get my hands on the new Beautiful Courage stamp set from STAMPlorations designed by my talented friend Becca Cruger. I thought it would be the perfect stamp set for the current Color Hues Challenge Black & White. I used the layout from Freshly Made Sketches with two … Read more
I told you I would come back and re-visit the current Sketch at CAS(E)this Sketch for a few more cards (you can see my first group of cards here). I thought this floral tape reminded me of RBG's Collar, so I used my new Ink Road Stamps RBG Stamps. I stamped … Read more