Sometimes, as much as I want to color an image with Copics, I know that crisp, smooth, bright white paper just won’t go with my overall card design. And then what’s a girl to do? For this tiki stamp from Hambo, I wanted to use rustic, textured paper that would have a hand-made look. Watercolor paper was the perfect texture, …
New Look!
What do you think? It’s still very much a work in progress, but at least there’s progress being made. If you visited yesterday while I was fooling with things I apologize. In the future I’ll try to keep my playing to late night. At the moment I don’t have much more to offer because my poor Mac Pro decided it …
Thinking Outside the Die
Lately I’ve been really into flowers. So much so, that I decided to invent my own. I used a Sizzix die to make this, can you guess which one? Now can you? How about now? Yup. It’s the Pine Tree from the Tim Holtz Alterations line. I cut out four trees, and then cut them each into 4 pieces. I …
Lots of Pink
This is a drive-by post. I’ve spent all day cutting out kits for my 10 Cards/10 Techniques class tonight, and I needed a break, so I decided to color. iCopic.com issued a challenge to use pink, and it’s been awhile since I colored one of my Marci stamps, so I decided this was the perfect opportunity. What a sweet little …
My Core’dinations Creative Frenzy
So, I have a bit of a new obsession. You already know my favorite stamps, and markers, and die cutter, and dies; but every good crafter needs a favorite paper. Core’dinations just might be it. It comes in dozens of fun, vibrant colors, and it has a complimentary colored core that you can reveal by embossing, sanding, distressing, tearing, etc. …
Fun With Nestabilities
I designed this card for next Tuesday’s make-and-take at Memories Live On. MLO recently expanded their collection of Nesties, so I wanted to create a card that shows off just how creative you can be with them. I cut two of the largest size of Labels Twenty and folded them in half to make this modified gate-fold card. Your note …