I have a book of Japanese fairy tales and one of my favorite stories growing up was about tsuki no usagi. To summarize, once upon a time the Old-Man-of-the-Moon looked down and saw a rabbit, a monkey, and a fox living together in a forest. He wondered which of them was the kindest and decided to ... View Post
Avery Elle I Heart You Challenge #18
After my super colorful card from earlier this week I wanted to do something a little more subdued. I created this card with the Avery Elle I Heart You Challenge in mind. Their theme this month was simply holiday cards and I thought this would be a great general holiday/winter card. Originally ... View Post
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: We’re Seeing Stars
I decided to make a shaker card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: We're Seeing Stars. Unfortunately it didn't photograph very well but that's partly the cat's fault as you'll see later... I used the Simon Says Stamp Stars Parade die and cut it twice, once from black ... View Post
AEIHeartU Challenge #18 and Virginia’s View Challenge #9
I'm participating in two fun challenges today! The Avery Elle I Heart You challenge requirement is holiday themed cards and the Virginia's View challenge involves using metallics in various forms. I started off by cutting a panel with the Avery Elle Finished Frames die set and masked the border ... View Post
A new design team and a colorful holiday card!
Recently I decided to apply to a call for design team members for a weekly Christmas Card challenge blog and over the weekend I received the news that I've been invited to join the team! So, as my official 'hello' to the blog, I thought I'd participate in this week's Color Challenge! Plus it ... View Post
Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 3 – take 2
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
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