I had two cards to make tonight and they both needed to be quick and easy or they weren’t getting done. This card is for this week’s Paper Craft Crew Challenge. Once again, I watercolored one of the butterflies from this month’s Simon Says Stamp Card Kit using Altenew Watercolor Brushes and Canson XL watercolor paper. I did… 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 »
A couple years ago, I took a class at Brit & Co on custom hand drawn houses. The point of the class was to make them imperfect and get just enough detail in there so people could get the idea of what it was they were looking at. I loved that class. It was an hour long and… Read More »
My cards today were totally inspired by the Altenew Blog Hop and Kelly Latevola’s card. I wanted to give her technique a try with the Altenew Watercolor Brush Pens because they just came out with a new set of 10 colors! The more I play with them, the better I get and the more I can justify adding… Read More »
Once in a while I like to experiment with new techniques and new products. Well…I like to do it all the time. I really enjoy getting sucked into experimenting with techniques and products that I’ve never tried before. I LOVE the card that I made from just such an experiment! This may look like a hot mess to… 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 »
Altenew has done it again! They have come out with the Winter Wonderland Watercolor Brush Set of 10 colors that are just gorgeous. I swatched them out to see what they look like: This is the same mixed media swatch book that I’ve been putting all my watercolors and marker swatches into. It’s been so handy to have… Read More »
I’m really excited to be participating in this week’s CAS(E) this Sketch challenge as a guest designer. I won one of the challenges last fall and they invited me to participate is the sketch for this week. I decided to create a watercolor piece for this card using Altenew’s watercolor brush markers. They just came out with their… 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 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 »
Altenew has done it again!! They’ve got another great new product for watercoloring called Watercolor Brush Markers. This is a set of 10 waterbrushes filled with Altenew’s gorgeous inks. These are very much like water brushes filled with watercolor paint instead of water. You can paint directly on watercolor paper or put them on your craft mat or… Read More »