I love making fall cards! The colors and images always make my heart sing. I came home exhausted from work today and fell asleep. I was awakened by the phone after only a 15 minute snooze. It left me groggy and out of sorts. Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling creative. Yet, once I got started I realized… Read More »
TI got two cards out of one alcohol ink background. I created a card yesterday that you can see HERE, using alcohol ink backgrounds and Catherine Pooler’s new Unsinkable stamp and die sets. This card uses the second sentiment in the Under the Sea stamp set and other shell images. I used a combination of blues, blue-greens, and… Read More »
I decided to go for a nice quick alcohol ink background to create a sea-like feel for the fun stamp and die sets from Catherine Pooler’s Unsinkable Collection. I live in a coastal port town and I love the sea themed stamp sets. They always get a lot of use in my crafting projects. For the background, I… Read More »
Altenew recently had a new class on 3D Florals that was all about using their layered floral dies. I’m halfway through the class and I’m enjoying it very much. I decided to use a slight twist on the 3D Florals by using the Rose Filament Die set. This is not a layered die, but I decided to do… Read More »
This card today is super quick and it uses a stencil to create an ink blending background for a fabulous sentiment from Pink Fresh Studios Word Series Believe Stamp Set. I used an old favorite Catherine Pooler stencil called Perfect Vines and the Real Red, Sauna, and Blue Suede Shoes CP inks with my Picket Fence blender brushes… Read More »
When I said I was doing a 30 Day Craft Room Clean Up, I hope you realize that I am not doing 30 consecutive days. Mostly because it is the end of the school year and it has been very hectic. I don’t really have a good excuse! Once you start cleaning up and working on fine-tuning your… Read More »
Just a quick post today to share my design team card for the Paper Craft Crew challenge. This is a 2 week challenge and it is a tic-tac-toe challenge. I worked an extra 5 hours today grading state exams for my students, so I need a quick and easy clean and simple card. I chose to select my… Read More »
I was excited to see this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge because I have the perfect cover die from Altenew for this sketch. I also found a box of happiness from Catherine Pooler’s latest release on my doorstep when I drove into my driveway. WIN-WIN! The background paper is a fun 6 x 6″ paper stack that I… Read More »
What a fantastic sentiment for a card! Who wouldn’t feel good when they opened that envelope and saw those words? One of the first stamp sets that I purchased from Catherine Pooler was on of her early Stamp of Approval sets called Count Your Blessings. The stamp and die set here is called Bloomin’ Bouquet. This is a… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is a nice clean and simple layout. I peeked at the cards the other design team members made and realized that they all used patterned backgrounds. I’ve been skimping on the backgrounds lately, favoring some simple and quick splatters. (I’m practicing my technique.) I also felt that this sketch would allow… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was just too good not to create a card for. I love this sketch. You can make it clean and simple or use some fun background texture techniques. If I had more time this evening, I would have used some texture paste with my stencil. But, alas, time is limited so some… Read More »
I have been loving all the new goodies that Catherine Pooler has been coming out with. I honestly thought that I was showing a tremendous amount of self control when I placed my order last week with her new release. I really wanted to purchase that whole bundle, but I selected just a couple of things including her… Read More »
I was very excited when I saw Catherine Pooler’s Welcome Home release. I was also proud of myself for only ordering one small bundle from that release! I selected the Cottage Garden Bundle because I loved the graphic geometric feel of the main floral image in the two stamp sets that were included in the bundle. Plus, I… Read More »
Catherine Pooler recently released her Welcome Home collection. I impressed myself by just picking a couple of items. Self control is not one of my strengths! Altenew also recently released a new set of Artist Markers and I just could not resist playing with the new stuff! This is Catherine Pooler’s Cottage Garden Bundle. It has a… Read More »
I’ve been taking a Zentangle class through Altenew Academy and it is fabulous. I’ve been meaning to tackle learning about this technique for a year and I’m finally taking the time to do it! I love the meditative quality of just drawing and focusing on what you are doing. I find watercolor to be that way as well.… Read More »