This month's Monthly Mix Challenge at Gina K. Designs is to use paper piecing. I paper pieced the lemons from Gina K. Designs More Fun Fruit by stamping them in black ink and clear embossing them on Gina's Amethyst Poly-Glaze Foiling Sheets that I had foiled with Gold Foil. After I detail cut the images, … Read more
The new challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Fun Fold – to make a card using something than a standard bi-fold. I searched for fold options and liked this fun tri-fold design by Ink It Up with Jessica. I used a 4 1/4" strip x 12", so my dimensions are a bit different. … Read more
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Think Ink – we're asking you to use lots of ink, but NO COLORING … think sponging, smooshing, stenciling, brayering, splattering, gel printing. I chose one of my favorite techniques. I apply Distress Oxide to a stamping block, spritz some water, and then press the block … Read more
For the past 11 days, I've been having fun with Catherine Rains free Collage Joy Taster Class. We started the class by making a variety of papers to use for collage using only a two paint color palette. It was fun pushing myself to get the color values I needed to get the contrast in … Read more
The January Taylored Expressions #TEMakerChallenge is all about Splatter. I started with the Taylored Expression Big Rainbow & Clouds inking with Taylored Expressions Confetti Cake, Key Lime, Pineapple, Peaches & Cream and Fruit Punch inks. Next I used gold metallic watercolor to splatter blue cardstock (because of course there's gold at … Read more
Last week, Lauren shared this Instagram video by Katie Pertiet where she used stamp & ticket ephemera to collage and die cut a Christmas Tree. I knew I wanted to try the same technique with the postage stamps I have in my collection from the Postal Museum … if only I could remember where I … Read more
Gina K. Designs November Monthly Mix Challenge is to use her Stencil Spritz Technique. I chose Gina K. Designs Fizzy Stencil and paired it with the colors for the current Color Throwdown Challenge (which I translated to Tangerine Twist, Fresh Asparagus and Cranberry Tart in Gina's inks). I overlaid the Gina … Read more
On Saturday, I had sooooo much fun taking a Cyanotype Class at the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy taught by talented artist May Roded. She had lots of samples to inspire us. Somehow I had always thought the Cyanotype process was much more complicated than it actually is. May provided lots of cool samples … Read more
After Lauren and I spent time in NYC, we go back to Lauren's home for what we have affectionately named Art Camp. There was even a sign to welcome me. One of the things we did together this year was play with Ranger Archival Inks and Alcohol. I tried lots of different embossing … Read more
There are a couple of current fun fold challenges, so I went to SplitcoastStampers and did my version of the Corner Tuck Folded Card. I decided to make the card vertical, so I could feature another fun journaling card from Echo Park Spooktacular Collection. Rather than use designer paper, I chose cardstock colors from the … Read more