I have a love-hate relationship with tags. On the one hand, they’re a great medium for small projects that showcase one or two unique inking/stamping techniques, which makes them perfect for make-and-takes. On the other hand, WTF do you do with them? Tell me. I keep hearing they’re great for gifts, or for placecards, or whatever. I’d believe that if …
Is there anything better than getting a package in the mail? I do more and more of my shopping online these days, and it’s always so much fun to come home to see a brown box on the doorstep. That was the inspiration for this card. I used two stamp sets from Pink Persimmon’s latest release: Parcel Post and Special …
Today marks the official transition from pumpkins and ghosts and costumes to…pumpkins and turkey and pie. The weather here in the SF Bay is finally turning a little colder, and if you look really hard you may even find a deciduous tree with colored foliage. So, happy Fall! I don’t know about you, but to me, nothing says fall like …
I’m at MLO for the afternoon, working on cards for one of my upcoming classes. The benefit of working here is I’ve got lots of space to spread out. Of course, the more I spread out, the more I have to clean up. Generally I have to start packing up about an hour before I plan to actually leave…which would …
Pink Persimmon has a really cute line of ATC-sized stamps that look like vintage button cards. They’re great for ATCs, because those vintage cards are little works of art themselves, and it’s a lot of fun to try to recreate them. I stamped this one onto a sheet of gleaming white xpress-it blending card and colored it with Copics. Then …
I just received a full screen printing kit from Jacquard Products. Jacquard makes a ton of really awesome art products geared toward fabric artists. This is one of those times it pays to have friends in high places. One of my sorority sisters works for Jacquard, and she asked me if I’d demo their screen printing kits on the blog. …