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 missed my Paper Craft Crew card this week thanks to my 5th go round with this winter’s virus collection, so I thought I would share it with you now! This week’s sketch was a nice clean and simple sketch, so I thought I’d have some fun with it and use some new goodies and practice some alcohol… Read More »
I took a clean and simple card sketch and gave it a lot of color! I used my Altenew Alcohol ink refills and created a rainbow on Yupo Paper with the Ocean Waves, Mango Smoothie and Ruby Red inks. While that was drying, I pulled out the same colors of ink pads and created a blended rainbow on… Read More »
About a year ago, I picked up a book about Zentangle Pencil Drawing Techniques. I really wanted to learn to add these fun drawings to my bullet journal pages. You know how it is…life happens. You get busy, the kids need you to do this, you have to go visit family, the house needs a good cleaning, work… Read More »
I have been a physics teacher for 30 years. Before that, I worked in a hospital lab for 5 years. I spent 4 years of college and 2 years of grad school working in labs. The Cute Chemists stamp and die set from My Favorite Things makes me happy! It’s adorable and it embraces the nerdy lab girl… Read More »
I accidentally fell in love with another stamp company! Picket Fence Studios. This wonderful place created the Life Changing Blender Brushes which I decided to try because of the arthritis in my hands. When I checked out the site, I was delighted to find stamp sets that I loved! This one is called Have A Cheerful Day: How… Read More »
Falling in love with mixed media is so easy to do. It starts small. You try some glitter glaze here, a distress crayon there, embossing paste comes next and suddenly you are stenciling and watercoloring everything! It is ridiculously addictive. Suddenly you will own every possible color of embossing mousse and then the company comes out with the… Read More »
My Monthly Hero is a card kit from Hero Arts. I have Hero Arts stamps that are at least as old as my children. My daughter is 26. I’ve been a Hero Arts fan for a long time. One of the nice things about them was that you could purchase them in your local craft stores. Remember that… Read More »
I felt so inspired to create today for so many reasons! I got home to find my new goodies from the January Sunny Studio Stamps release. I really enjoyed the sneak peeks that they gave us and had a few things on my list…those 6 x 6″ patterned papers for one! My company is gone and I actually… Read More »
A big thank you to Altenew! Altenew sent exclusive free stamp sets to customers with a nice card and lots of coupon codes. I finally had time to play with this gift yesterday and boy, did I have fun! I used a technique that I learned maybe 18 years ago from my Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, Peggy Parpan. At… Read More »
I created this flower on Friday to participate in the Flower Challenge. Their challenge was to create a floral card with an older stamp and/or die. I pulled out the Artistic Dahlia stamp that I had purchased from Hero Arts some time ago and never got around to using. I bought it to practice coloring techniques with it… Read More »
The news is that we are potentially getting some more snow here soon. It seemed appropriate to create a night sky scene with these fabulous bears from Lawn Fawn. This stamp set is called Winter Skies and I elected to use a variety of ink mediums on this card. I’ve used distress oxide inks for the sky, Copics… Read More »
I have a video for you today to show you how I created 3 clean and simple (CAS) one layer Christmas cards using the same basic layout for all 3, but each uses a different coloring medium. I am participating in this week’s Less Is More Challenge which is Old Holiday. They are also having a design team… Read More »
Stamp Ink Paper is having a Favorite Punch challenge this week and luckily it is acceptable to use dies also. I did a podcast several years ago about how I prefer punches over dies. I just found them so convenient because I had them in a storage unit right on my desk and they were within reach and… Read More »