I spent the weekend and the first 3 days of the week with the flu and finally dragged myself back to work on Thursday. I hate missing work. There are 125 kids depending on me every single day. I never want to let them down. While I still did not feel well physically, it was an emotional high… 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 »
This month’s My Monthly Hero kit was simply amazing! The kit always comes with a full size stamp set and coordinating die set wrapped in a piece of pretty ribbon. It usually has some extras like the shimmer cardstock, package of sequins and the Sakura Jelly Roll Sparkle Pen. I was seriously excited to find out that the… Read More »
This week’s Paper Craft Crew is a Holiday Challenge! I gleefully pulled out a few of my favorite things…my favorite poinsettia stamp from Catherine Pooler’s Tis The Season Winterhaven Collection and the Merry Christmas Layered Word Die from her Home For The Holidays Collection. I stamped everything in Versa Mark ink and added Brustus Monroe’s Christmas Eve embossing… Read More »
There are some craft tools that I’ve had for years and they are still serving me well. Then there are some new tools that I’ve discovered in the last year that I don’t know how I crafted without for so long! I always love seeing the crafting tools other people love and use. I decided that I should… Read More »
Welcome to the Kat Scappiness Blog Hop and Sale to benefit The Coffee Oasis and their Center for Homeless Youth. I’m delighted to be a part of the Kat Scrappiness Charity Blog Hop today. I love that the blog hop benefits The Coffee Oasis and their very worthy cause. Learn more about Coffee Oasis: Coffee Oasis is a… 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 ran out of day before I ran out of things to do today! My card for this week’s Paper Craft Crew ended up being a little rushed, but I got a chance to use a couple of stamp sets that I recently purchased. I decided to go with the classic Christmas colors and I used Catherine Pooler’s… Read More »
I’m making a project for the new Altenew Academy class that I’m taking called Easy as ABC. The class is about using alphabet stamps and letter die cuts in fun ways. I’m creating a simple Christmas card using Altenew’s Bells and Bows stamp and die set. I LOVE the dimension on this layered bow stamp. I used Altenew’s… 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 »
One thing is for certain, if you want to become good with Copic markers, watercoloring mediums of any kind or any technique in general, you need to practice. I took an online class at My Creative Scoop called Winter Pup. The image is purchased from Whimsy Stamps and it is adorable. As part of the technique, we added… Read More »
This week’s Paper Craft Crew Challenge is a challenge to use your favorite new product. I’ve tried so many new products this year that it really is impossible to pick just one. I decided to share my favorite new products of the week! How adorable is this little penguin on the snowy hills under the night sky? What… Read More »
I did a blog post a few days ago about organizing my stamp sets. I have been using this system for almost a year after watching a video by Jennifer McQuire and then subsequently several videos recommending the same storage system by several other stampers. It is really working for me! I converted a good portion of my… Read More »