Lately I just seem to have so little time to make my cards. You know what that’s like. Some months it seems like you just don’t have time for yourself. I had wonderful reasons for not having time for myself. My daughter was able to spend the last month with us, which was fabulous. She just finished her… Read More »
If ever I needed a card to be quick, this is it! What a day! I needed to create a card for my Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and I had 15 minutes to make the card, take the picture and write this blog post. Here is what I came up with: I pulled out my binder of premade… Read More »
The July My Favorite Things Card Kit is called Flowers in Bloom and it has some fun Color Burst powders and watercolor papers from Ken Oliver. It also had a stamp and die set with some card stock as well. The Color Burst Powders were a lot of fun to play with. I experimented with several ways to… Read More »
I’ve had Altenew’s Rose Flurries 3D Die set on my wish list for almost two years! I finally splurged when I saw they created a creativity kit and it was part of the bundle. Altenew bundles products into Creativity Kits that they release weekly with a set of instructional videos that you can purchase to get your creative… Read More »
I was excited to see this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge because I have the perfect cover die from Altenew for this sketch. I also found a box of happiness from Catherine Pooler’s latest release on my doorstep when I drove into my driveway. WIN-WIN! The background paper is a fun 6 x 6″ paper stack that I… Read More »
I have had a crazy busy spring. I bet you can relate. It has been one thing after another and my craft kits have been sitting for two months. That’s right! Two months!! I finally got to open and play with Simon Says Stamp May Kit called Delicate Flowers. What a fantastic kit this is month after month. … Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is a nice clean and simple layout. I peeked at the cards the other design team members made and realized that they all used patterned backgrounds. I’ve been skimping on the backgrounds lately, favoring some simple and quick splatters. (I’m practicing my technique.) I also felt that this sketch would allow… Read More »
This week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was just too good not to create a card for. I love this sketch. You can make it clean and simple or use some fun background texture techniques. If I had more time this evening, I would have used some texture paste with my stencil. But, alas, time is limited so some… Read More »
I have been loving all the new goodies that Catherine Pooler has been coming out with. I honestly thought that I was showing a tremendous amount of self control when I placed my order last week with her new release. I really wanted to purchase that whole bundle, but I selected just a couple of things including her… Read More »
It’s been a crazy two weeks for me. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that I’ve traveled to multiple states to take care of business and help both of my “kids”. I’m exhausted. There is nothing like treating yourself to an hour or two of being creative to help you relax and revive!… Read More »
It’s nice to have a few minutes to sit down and create. I have had so little time lately to spend in my studio. It feels good when you finally have some time! I pulled out a Waffle Flower Bouquet Builder 2 stamp set that I have had for a bit and have not had the chance to… Read More »
One of my favorite stamp sets is Altenew Flower Vine. I love how soft and sweet the image and sentiments are. I was tempted to do this in just black and white and keep it as simple as possible. Instead, I’m using elements from two sketch challenges to create my card. The first is this week’s Atlantic Hearts… 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 »
It’s time for this week’s Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! This one is a frame of sorts and I always find these challenging. I decided to do a different twist on it than what I usually do with these types of card sketches. This time, I randomly stamped images using Altenew’s Painted Butterflies stamp set in a variety of… Read More »
I took a clean and simple card sketch and gave it a lot of color! I used my Altenew Alcohol ink refills and created a rainbow on Yupo Paper with the Ocean Waves, Mango Smoothie and Ruby Red inks. While that was drying, I pulled out the same colors of ink pads and created a blended rainbow on… Read More »