What’s New With Me? If you are a regular blog reader, you know that I have been a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for the last 6 years. It has been a successful 6 years and I have loved every minute of it and I am grateful for all that Stampin’ Up! has done for me. That Rising Star award… Read More »
I discovered a new challenge that I just had to participate in. The Flower Challenge. Florals must be the main image on the card. This week’s challenge is to make a one layer card. Here are the instructions from the website challenge blog: This month we are looking for ‘One Layer’ cards. So a card made with one… Read More »
Honestly! I was in a hurry to make my Paper Craft Crew card and get it linked so that I could join my family for a chimnea fire on the deck. Then I just couldn’t decide which new Concord & 9th new release product to use! I settled on the Thankful Leaves Dies because I wanted to try… Read More »
My cards today sort of came by accidentally! I wanted to try out the new Marvy Watercolor Pencils that I got with my Hedgehog Hollow August Kit and I ended up making a video and 2 quick cards. While I would never hold these cards up as my best card designs, I had a lot of fun playing… Read More »
I love that many of the stamp companies have monthly releases of new products. The drawback of course is that I spend too much money of new craft supplies to play with! The wonderful thing about it is that I am crafting every spare minute! I’m loving that I am trying so many new techniques and tools that… Read More »
This month’s August Hedgehog Hollow Card Kit was ridiculously cute. It was actual hedgehog stamps with a nod to traveling in London. I’ve spent the last 2 days practicing coloring in hedgehogs with what few Copic markers that I own. As you will see, it is a technique that I need to continue to practice!! I used this… Read More »
It seems to be that time of year when you see the flamingos everywhere. Several new stamps have been released with these fabulous birds as their main image. I still couldn’t resist buying Catherine Pooler’s new Stamp of Approval Tropical Paradise set. The fantastic set of leaves and fronds along with the amazing sentiments just called to me. … Read More »
This week’s Paper Craft Crew Challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. You pick 3 features in a row, column or diagonal and create a card with those 3 elements. I selected the Bundle, Metallic and Favorite Color elements from the first column on the left. For my bundle, I used two stamp sets from the new Catherine Pooler Designs… Read More »
Altenew has a whole bundle of mini stamp sets that provide a variety of images and sentiments to add to your collection. I like these little stamp sets because the price point is amazing. Most of them are under $5! Plus, when they have sales or when I’m trying to get free shipping and I just need a… Read More »
How often do you sit down with a card idea in your head and then the card just keeps evolving as you make it looking nothing like you wanted it to? Today was just one of those days for me! I was playing with techniques again just to experiment and see how some new colored pencils behaved. I… Read More »
I love it when I go to the door and there is a craft kit sitting on my porch just waiting for me. Today was that day! The new Simon Says Stamp August Card Kit arrived today and it is another fabulous kit. These kits never disappoint. This kit has a beautiful background stamp called Modern Flowers, a… Read More »
I thought that I would share a watercolor technique this week for my Technique of the Week. I have a video below to show you how easy this technique is! This is a simple watercolor drop in technique that makes very quick cards. I picked one of my favorite stamp sets for this technique. It is a Catherine… Read More »
I saw a color challenge that I couldn’t resist this week at Inspire. Create. Challenge. You can check out the challenge here: Inspire.Create.Challenge #022 | Colour Challenge I’ve been playing with watercoloring, pencil coloring and alcohol marker coloring for what seems like forever. I decided to take a break and make a nice quick card with my… Read More »
I’m giving myself and E for Effort with my watercoloring today. I need a P for more Practice as well! I played around with some more florals after watching a lesson taught by Debbie Hughes who is a master watercolorist. Wow! All of the class instructors make it look so easy and each one will tell you that… Read More »
I have another one of my homework assignments to share with you from my latest watercoloring class. This is the class where I expected to be stamping images and watercoloring them in, but instead we are sketching or just watercoloring freehand. Today I was playing with floral images and I’ve only attempted one of the 4 types that… Read More »