I thought this technique would look great on a very intricate die cut…and with so much purple in this week’s color scheme, what’s more intricate than grape vines? This is a file I purchased from the Silhouette Online Store (design # 8116) and cut from very thick white cardstock using my Cameo. Since it was […]
Cards
Layered Tweed Stamp Background
I don’t have too many background stamps that are amenable to this technique, so I chose one and tried out several different color and layering combinations before making the card for today: I stamped the first layer of pattern on Neenah Desert Storm cardstock using the Hero Arts Tweed Pattern stamp (S-5654) and Versamagic Ink […]
Christmas in July, with Layered Embossed Vellum
Well…it’s like I had no choice…and the flood gates are now open. I spent the good part of an afternoon yesterday looking through all of my holiday stamps and salivating, and next thing I know one of the color schemes I’m given has red, green, black, and silver in it? It was too much, and […]
Holiday Stamp Repurpose
I really like holidays…so naturally I have plenty of holiday stamps. For today’s challenge, to use holiday stamps to create a non-holiday card, I decided to work with several images from the Fiskar’s “What A Hoot” set and a strand of Christmas lights from TPC Studio’s “Modern Christmas” set: I used the strand of Christmas […]
Plaid Stamping
I really wanted to make a shaker card today but I was short on time, so I chose my second favorite technique from the bunch – plaid stamping. I knew this would look great using the border stamp from “Cupcake Party” by Simon Says Stamp because I saw the video where Kristina used it on […]
Ombre Embossing
Ombre embossing is something I’ve been meaning to try for a while, so I was actually already prepared with many different colors of powders. Most of my colored powders are shimmer powders, so I immediately thought of hummingbirds. To conserve powder, I tried my best to spoon small amounts of each color onto specific areas […]
Card Camp Week 2, Day 1 – “Circle Card”
I rarely make shaped cards, so I definitely wanted to try out sketch #1 today. I also needed a birthday card for my nephew, and when I saw the color scheme for this week I couldn’t get Granny Smith apples out of my head…so I just went for it: I designed this apple-shaped card in […]
Summer Card Camp Day 5 – New Color Challenge
Although I loved the color combination provided this week, I was thrilled to see a whole new set of colors to play with today. I immediately started envisioning a porthole when I saw Kristina’s window card and the first set of colors that seemed to be nautical-inspired to me. Here is what I came up […]