I'm just having way too much fun in this class...finished teaching this evening and went back into my craft room for a few hours. The first card uses embossing resist and is based on a tutorial taught by Kristina Werner. I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and snowflakes from stamp sets by ... View Post
Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 3
I was really looking forward to today's Online Card Class topic and the teachers definitely didn't let me down! The topic was watercoloring and we got three fabulous tutorials. I'll probably revisit day 3 on Thursday and do the other techniques but I wanted to share my first attempt at Dawn ... View Post
Better late than never!
Oops, well I had intended to enter this in the last Papertrey Ink Make it Monday challenge but I just didn't get it uploaded in time. However, I really like the way it turned out and I wanted to share it! The challenge was Partial Die Stamping and it involved stamping an image onto a piece of ... View Post
Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 1 and 2
As usual, I'm having a fabulous time in the newest Online Card Class: Holiday Card Workshop 2014. Over the summer I actually made about 30 Christmas cards but there's so many wonderful ideas in class that I'm making more! I HIGHLY recommend checking them out! Here are my day one cards: ... View Post
Memory Box Lighted Branch Card
Just a quick card share today...I created this card while experimenting with several new stamps, dies, and inks! I wish I had added one more branch but it was a fun card to put together. I added the clear wink of stella glitter pen and glossy accents to the lightbulbs; while it doesn't really show ... View Post
Watercolor Birthday Cards with Mama Elephant
I've recently discovered the company, Mama Elephant, and I'm in love with their products. Their pigment inks are gorgeous and the stamp sets are amazing! I've been wanting to play around with this Make a Wish stamp set and I thought watercolors would be a perfect medium for the stamp. I tried the ... View Post
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Kraft
This week's challenge was a fun one because I don't tend to choose kraft paper when thinking about a card base; however, I recently got ahold of the Mama Elephant pigment inks and I was super excited to try them out! Previously my pigment inks were just the cheap Colorbox ones I found at Michael's ... View Post
Jessica Lynn Original
I spent some time today making two very different Christmas cards using two different Jessica Lynn Original stamps! The first card uses her digital poinsettia stamp. I actually enlarged the image before printing (one of the joys of digital stamps) and then placed a sheet of vellum over the printed ... View Post