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
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
I used glittery watercolors to paint the Altenew Paint-A-Flower Hydrangea. I die cut it with a stitched rectangle and positioned it using foam tape on piece of glittery painted paper from my stash that coordinated perfectly I finished with a sentiment from Altenew Sentiment Strips, because my sympathy card stash was completely depleted. … Read more
The Simon Says Monday Challenge is to use Paint. My card features two different Gelliarts Prints made with acrylic paint. I topped them with a Tim Holtz Christmas Layers and Paper Doll that I also painted with watercolor pencil. I added a wrap of metallic twine and some metallic bling before finishing with … Read more
I just returned from spending five days with my crafty friend Bev at her home in Alabama. We officially dubbed the experience our Alabama Art Camp. We had lots of different artsy things (and some non-artsy) that we wanted to try during our time together. In the photo above, we were trying to … Read more
It's week two of our Flat Feliz Navidad Prompt at Jingle Belles where we're creating Flat One Layer holiday cards. I started by stamping the Gina K. Designs Graphic Tree in White Pigment Ink and embossing with White Embossing Powder. Next I painted Green Shimmer Paint over the tree. Next I stamped the sentiment … Read more
I've been thinking a lot about collage lately. I'm taking a free Collage Joy Taster Class, which has inspired me to make new collage papers. Today in the online class, we finally start assembling some collages. Here's a collage I made with the intent of it being a card. I started with an … Read more