This month's Paper Pumpkin is a fun one. I love the happy skeletons! There is just a ton of materials in the kit with lots of options for Halloween, Day Of The Dead, or skeleton lover projects. I make 3 simple stamping projects, step them up and then share three more stepped up projects for a total of nine alternatives. Video Length 23 min 37 sec.
Every year I have the pleasure of making Libby a very special birthday card. I craft with Libby once or twice a month and as the years go by I have the challenge of outdoing previous birthday cards. She loves pink so I have to decide what shades of pink. This year I went with my current favorite stamp set: Very Versailles. I made the background using three colors of pink and Crumb Cake. I...
Howdy from the Pacific Northwest! We have finally had quite a bit of rain in the last week. Overall it has been very dry this summer so the rain is much needed. We have been staying at the Mount Vernon and Birch Bay Thousand Trails, both are great Thousand Trails to visit. Each has its own unique charm.
Today I am joining the Stamp 'N Hop global demonstrator group blog hop. If you came...
After making an inky mess with Libby making sprinkled looking backgrounds, she suggested we CASE a card that uses a watercolor wet brush technique. Our challengs was simple stamping stepped up. So I used Melon Mambo sprinkls and I found that the lighter the wash, the more soft peach it became. You can see some peach brushstrokes - yes those came from the one color of sprinkles even though it...
I cannot believe that it is already September! Typically hub and I would be prepping for travel to somewhere south for the winter. However, this year we plan to limit our travels and will stay in the Pacific Northwest along the coast. My fingers are crossed for a mild winter!
Today I am joining the Kre8tors blog hop and our theme this month is either brides or babies. I chose babies...
The day I made this was an ink messy day! Libby and I made some backgrounds using the new Pigment Sprinkles watercolor crystals. The sprinkles are so fun to work with.
I should note here that a few sprinkles really go a long ways and, I did what is called a wet application, I wet the watercolor paper by spritzing with no crystals first then I added the crystals followed by more...
While at my mom's, I played with some beginning stamper cards. This one shows a busy card in masculine colors that still is very quick to make. I stamped directly on Whisper White thick. I almost gave it away without snapping a quick picture of it. Pardon the room lighting, I was at my mom's. I love how fast it is to make this type of card.
For the second display project, I started with a single stamped Smoky Slate Birch background. The trimmed size: 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" with sponged edges in Smoky Slate. Basic Gray mat 3 3/4" z 5", both mounted on a thick 4 1/4" x 11" base scored at 8 1/2".
I set that aside and started to play with a snowy scene. Hub chose the animal, Nature's Beauty has a deer, fox and bunny. He said fox, so...
I am working with Libby on display projects. We are making a set of cards using the Birch background for her North Carolina group's big quarterly get together. Since I move all over I am sort of an orphan so it is nice to be able to participate in group activities even if remotely.
This is the first of three A2 size cards and I decided on a vertical gate fold card.
The top and...
With my wrist officially given the thumbs up from the surgeon, I went to my mom's for a couple of crafting days. It was a beautiful day for the drive. She is quite a ways off I-5 but it is worth the drive. She has a small farm on 5 acres with dogs, horses and a big garden. We lived there for nine months in our trailer so her dogs get very excited excited when we come to visit.
This was...