This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is a clean and simple sketch and for a change, I decided to stick with that plan! I confess that I got a bit overly zealous with my splatters on this card, but alas…they are always unpredictable! I used Altenew’s Sunlit Butterflies die with two of their new ink colors swooshed onto… Read More »
I’m all about making quick cards these days. Thankfully, these days are soon going to be those days when I had no time. Retirement is only 3 more work days away! How sweet it is! For my Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Design Team card this week, I chose to keep my color palette to just white. The sketch… Read More »
Is it really December already? Where has time gone this year? It’s been a year of big changes for us with more to come in the next few weeks. We are embracing them all! I finally sat down and made a Christmas card! It’s time!! This image is a small portion of the actual stamp I used for… Read More »
I have a quick card to share with you. This week’s Atlantic Heart’s Sketch Challenge inspired by card layout while the Paper Craft Crew Theme Challenge inspired the colors. The Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was a nice and quick one that would actually be perfect for the Christmas Holiday. It’s so cute! The wreath die cut that I… Read More »
Have you ever looked at a card sketch and felt no inspiration at all? That happened to me today when I sat down to look at this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. In all honesty, it is the PERFECT card sketch for using up your pretty paper scraps or Washi tapes. I just wasn’t feeling it until I… Read More »
Today I am sharing a card that I made for a technique class I am teaching. I wanted to participate in the 2019 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I’m using this for my DT card for this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. After the first of the year, I will be releasing several online classes and this… Read More »
Do you have those packages of premade die cuts and ephemera? Perhaps you have a giant stash of them. I haven’t purchased any of those items for a very long time. Until recently. I’ve been getting the Simon Says Stamps card kits for quite some time and every few months they will have some of the die cut… Read More »
Have you tried creating a card background with alcohol ink yet? You’ll be hooked when you do! The cards that I created to share with you today and tomorrow are both created with Altenew Alcohol Re-Inkers. The re-inkers are actually the Altenew Artist Marker refill inks, but they work beautifully on Yupo paper to create amazing backgrounds for… Read More »
Do you have too much patterned paper in your stash? If you are anything like me, you don’t completely use up a package of patterned paper before you fall in love with a new one. I limit myself to only purchasing 6×6″ paper stacks that have timeless patterns that I will eventually use. In theory. I also subscribe… Read More »
I have a set of vintage jars that came from my grandmother’s house. They are these fantastic blue glass jars and they are giant. I absolutely love them. My card today was inspired by those jars and by this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. As soon as I saw the card sketch, I knew that I wanted to… Read More »
It’s hard to resist a stamp set as cute as the MFT Stamps Squirrel! set. The little squirrels and acorns were too adorable not to add to my shopping cart! This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was the perfect sketch to pull out some of my favorite Sunny Studio Stamps 6×6″ patterned paper to use as the background… Read More »
I love making fall cards! The colors and images always make my heart sing. I came home exhausted from work today and fell asleep. I was awakened by the phone after only a 15 minute snooze. It left me groggy and out of sorts. Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling creative. Yet, once I got started I realized… Read More »
I can’t believe that it is September. I had such big plans to craft, blog and make videos more often over the summer. A couple of big home improvement projects really ate up the summer. Alas, they were worth the time I spent doing them and they are almost done. I will definitely share pictures of those projects… Read More »
I got involved in my garden project today and left my card until the last minute. I needed it to be a quickie, so I pulled out some Altenew stickers and acetate die cuts from my stash. I created a quick background with the new Wavy Roses stamp set from Altenew in a monochromatic color scheme using the… Read More »
I decided to go for a nice quick alcohol ink background to create a sea-like feel for the fun stamp and die sets from Catherine Pooler’s Unsinkable Collection. I live in a coastal port town and I love the sea themed stamp sets. They always get a lot of use in my crafting projects. For the background, I… Read More »