Hi there. The new challenge over on the Little Tangles Challenge Blog is a sketch challenge. Here is the sketch and the card I created for it… I stamped the adorable mermaid image and sentiment from THIS stamp set on to THIS cardstock using THIS ink. I clear heat embossed it and painted it using THESE watercolors. I cut strips of THIS patterned paper for the background and adhered them together. I cut them...
Photo Cards
Hi there. I’m back today sharing some cards I created for some of my crafty friends… Twice a year, my friends and I have a craft retreat where some of my favorite people around the world (we have some ladies who fly in from England!) come and spend the weekend crafting. It is so much fun that my local group of crafty friends like to get together in between those larger retreats and meet...
Layered Watercolor
Hi there! I hope your week is going well. I wanted to share a card I created featuring Layered Watercolor… I used THESE Zig Markers as my watercolor medium and did a similar technique as seen in THIS previous post, but took it a step further and added more watercolor layers on top to intensify the colors and give it an artsy, organic look… I started by stamping the floral images from THIS stamp...
SSS March Card Kit
Hello. Did you see that Simon Says Stamp released their March Card Kit? More details of the kit HERE How cute are those PEEPS!? I decided to use the coordinating peep dies and cut them from foam to give them a marshmallow look… To create the window for the peeps to peek out from, I used THIS die with one of the patterned papers in the kit. I used THIS die to create a frame...
Shaker Card plus New Hero Arts Giveaway!
Hello! Some of you may know that Hero Arts recently released some stamps with my handwriting and I’m so excited. You can read all about it HERE. I thought it would be fun to do a giveaway of THIS stamp because I consider all of you my crafty friends… …and here is a shaker card I created using the stamp… To create this card, I heat embossed the sentiment in white on vellum and...