When you are learning new skills and techniques, you need to just keep practicing them. I’ve been looking for opportunities to create mixed media backgrounds pages and use them in meaningful ways. Today, I have a video to share with you to show you how I made the background for this mixed media scrapbook layout using the Scrap… Read More »
It is just too much fun to play with stamp sets that allow you to create scenes! You can easily get lost in a day of masking, ink blending and coloring. It’s so relaxing! Today, I want to share a video to share an easy way to color with alcohol markers and give you a trick to make… Read More »
I love single layer cards and I’ve been challenging myself to create more single layer cards. They use less resources and don’t require extra postage! I belong to several design teams and they often have sketch challenges that require a card to have several layers. The many layered cards tend to be the ones that I don’t like… Read More »
Hello friends! What are you creating on this quiet summer Sunday? I’ve been busy creating layer 1 of some soon to be fabulous mixed media backgrounds that I will be binding together to create my very own album for memory keeping! I’ve created 16 backgrounds so far! I created along with Vicki Boutin on Friday night during… Read More »
We finally got our power back about an hour ago! We got walloped by that tropical storm that came through Long Island. On the East End, we actually had a tornado warning! The storm had severe thunderstorms on the south shore of the island and we live on the north shore directly across the bay from that. The… Read More »
I’ve never considered myself a hoarder…except with craft supplies. It’s ridiculous, really. I have some supplies I’ve had since the 80’s! Seriously!! When the quarantine hit, I found myself separated from my craft stash. It was in New York and I was in Florida celebrating being newly retired. I had some basic supplies and had plenty to keep… Read More »
Digital stamps are quickly becoming one of my favorite new creative tools. I know that I’ve said this before, but they are so easy to store! Although, I must confess that I do print out several copies at a time so I have a file folder full of images I can just pull out and color. I also… Read More »
There are a number of liquid watercolor inks on the market today. I’ve mostly used the watercolor brush markers and I quite like creating with them. Altenew just came out with a new set this week. It’s now on my wishlist! Day 3 of Altenew’s Elements of Watercoloring Mediums, we explored using the watercolor brush marker liquid ink… Read More »
Watercolor paint sets wildly in price and types. I’m guessing that the gold standard is Daniel Smith paints in the tubes. Those are decadently expensive and that’s what Debby Hughes uses! She’s a master watercolorist and she’s amazing. For day 2 of the Altenew Exploring Watercolor Mediums class, we used the student grade pan set from Altenew. This… Read More »
Watercolor is one of those techniques that a lot of people are afraid to try. One of the things that I adore about it is that there are so many different ways to get that watercolor look and every single one of them is fun to try. This is an old technique, but a good one. I’m taking… Read More »
Have you tried pastes and glazes yet? It’s one fun new mediums that have become trendy these days. If you are like me, you have a few from several different companies. You have glazes, pastes, glimmer pastes, mousses, glitter glazes, gessos, modeling paste, embossing pastes…am I right? The truth is that they all work about the same and… Read More »
How long has it been since you have done a re-inker technique? It’s been a while, right? Ditto for me! I happened to take a class a The Stamp Nation and one of the techniques the instructors used was a simple watercolored background with re-inkers. Then Vicki Boutin did a Live on Wednesday and did a very similar… Read More »
Catherine Pooler inks are special. The stamp beautifully and you can do all kinds of techniques with them. The vibrant colors are just so fun to work with as well. These remain one of my 3 favorite ink brands. Today I played with the re-inkers. I haven’t watercolored in quite awhile. I decided it was time to play… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video about creating rolling hills with ink blending and I was having a hard time blending my inks that day. I was just getting blobs. That almost never happens to me now that I’m using the Picket Fence blender brushes and Neenah Solar White cardstock or Bristol cardstock. What I… Read More »
I found a new medium that I am totally in love with! NUVO Crackle Mousse. I’ve been a fan of the NUVO Embellishment Mousse for a long time and I’ve done a couple of videos using those. These new Crackle Mousse mediums are super fun! My first experiment involved just smearing it on a card with my palette… Read More »