Watercolor Background Tutorial

Last week I shared this stamped sunset card that used Distress Markers to create a watercolor background. I’ve had so much fun playing around with this technique that I need to share it. All you need to start is an acrylic stamping block and your Distress Markers. Make sure the block is nice and clean. I use a little bit …

Distress Marker Watercolor Background

I love sunsets. Is there anything more beautiful than an open field just before dusk, when the sky is bright orange and the landscape is cast into shadow? It’s a view that I’ve tried to capture more than a few times. I think I finally got it right. This background is so simple. Just use your Distress Markers to layer …

Memory Box Halloween Card

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and Memory Box is one of my favorite stamp and die manufacturers. So you can imagine how excited I was when MLO got their whole Halloween line a couple weeks ago. It’s really too bad people don’t send Halloween cards the way they send Christmas cards, because I would be buying all of …

Stamping with Twinkling H2Os

I made this card to demo Twinkling H2Os for the Tuesday make-and-take at MLO this week. The background and balloons, both from Hero Arts, were stamped slightly differently. For the background, I painted Twinkling H2Os in Bamboo and Bolivian Blue directly onto the stamp, then spritzed very lightly with water before I stamped it. For the balloons, I stamped regularly …