Did you know that your sketch pens are compatible with alcohol-based markers? With any of the major brands of alcohol markers that I tested, the regular sketch pen ink does not bleed when colored over and does not leave a residue on the nibs (I would be cautious when using the glitter or metallic sketch pens, however, […]
Cards
Back to School Encouragement Card
I had some time to play with my September 2014 card kit from Simon Says Stamp today and decided to make an encouragement card for my niece who will be returning to school soon. The stamp set is a super fun one this month…at least for the kind of girl who grew up dreaming of […]
Masked Floral Stamping
Just a quick card share today using some of the new Stampin’ Up In Colors and stamps from Gina K. Designs. Can you believe this is the first time I’ve tried Gina K.’s stamps…they are truly great quality and take ink like a champ. I used the masking technique that Yana used in Day 9 […]
Ikat Hello Card
So I’m a bit behind on my homework for class…but I wanted to share the card I made using Debby’s random pattern stamping technique from Day 7 of Stretch Your Stamps 2. I don’t have a ton of graphic stamps because they generally don’t appeal to me, but I did pull out my “Eye Catching […]
Sending Cool Thoughts
One more quick post today…I’m trying to catch up on my homework from Stretch Your Stamps 2! Here I watercolored some of the ice cream images from the “Ice Cream Dream” set from Simon Says Stamp using Peerless Watercolors and attached them to a “parachute” made from the top of an umbrella (“Sunnier Days” from […]
High- and Lowlighted Floral Images
I started out with Donna Mikasa’s idea of “water painting” from Day 6 of Stretch Your Stamps 2, and ended up with this variation that has both highlighted areas and lowlighted details: I stamped the image and sentiment from the “Peaceful Petals” set from Stampin’ Up (now retired) with Versamark ink on some watercolor paper, […]
Word Search Card
It’s pretty late, so this will be a quick post again…this card uses one of techniques from Day 3 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 – creating a word search with your alphabet stamps. I first created my sentiment in Versamark ink on dark gray cardstock using the new “Back to Basics Alphabet” set from Stampin’ […]
Perfect Pearls Star Map Card
Just a quick share today with the card I made for Day 2 of Stretch Your Stamps 2…more background stamps: The “Vintage Constellation” stamp from Hero Arts was stamped with Versamark ink on some black cardstock, covered with blue, purple, green, and white perfect pearls (not their names, but you get the picture), and then […]