Today’s card features the Altenew Paint-a-Flower: Clematis Outline stamp that I enjoyed watercoloring. I love seeing the climbing clematis in gardens when I go for runs. I paired it with a watercolored panel that combined a combination of purples and pinks like the blooms together wtih some metallic gold for a bit of shimmer. The … Read more
The current Retro Rubber Challenge is a Sketch. I built my card around a bouquet from Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Mothers that I watercolored and die cut with a scalloped rectangle. That stamp set was released in 2021. I used two of my prints from the #abcprintingchallenge with GelliArts for the background elements. The sentiments … Read more
My friend Bev’s house in Alabama is truly one of my happy places. I absolutely adore floating in a pool, and hers is perfection. I can easily choose to stay in the shade … or paddle into the sun to get a tiny bit of tan on those super-white legs. This year we started a … Read more
We did so many fun projects at Alabama Art Camp this year (Bev is seriously the best at finding artsy things to try). The first technique we tried was Faux Cyanotype inspired by @paintbyles. We started by water coloring our backgrounds. Once they dried, we used a stencil and oh-so-slightly damp sponge to pick-up the … Read more
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
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
Today in Iowa, snow is falling and the temperatures are quite frigid … so the only flowers will be in my studio. I rediscovered a stack of water colored images from my Alabama Art Camp earlier this year, so I turned one of them into a Birthday card to put in the mail. This one … Read more
I needed a few more birthday cards, so this time I started by die cutting the Scrapbook.com Decorative Emboss & Die Cut Autumn Leaves from a piece of watercolor paper that I had painted with shimmer paints through a piece of dry wall tape. After I die cut them, I brushed on some Rusty Hinge … Read more
I’ve had this landscape I water colored on my studio table for some time trying to figure out what to do with it. Today I needed a birthday card for a friend, so decided to combine my painting with a simple Poppy Stamps Playful Happy Birthday Die for the PoppyStamps Keep it Simple Challenge. The … Read more
My friend Cyndie and I were supposed to be taking an art class together in March near her home, but the instructor canceled it at the last moment, so I had to make a quick decision about the plane ticket I no longer needed. We decided to re-route our adventure to San Diego in August. … Read more