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A new design team and a colorful holiday card!

16 Nov

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

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Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 3 – take 2

5 Nov

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

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Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 3

5 Nov

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

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Better late than never!

5 Nov

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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Online Card Classes: Holiday Card Workshop 2014, day 1 and 2

4 Nov

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

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lawn fawn, rubbernecker stamps, silhouette cameo

Memory Box Lighted Branch Card

30 Oct

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

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Watercolor Birthday Cards with Mama Elephant

29 Oct

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

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Kraft

28 Oct

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

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