Make that 17 minute challenge…it turns out I just can’t work quickly. I had a great plan: 1. use all the stamps and dies from the same set so that the design can’t get too complicated, 2. use paper piecing instead of coloring for the images, and 3. keep the embellishments to a minimum. Well…that […]
Summer Card Camp 2, Day 3 – A Day Behind
I’m already a day behind with so many more days of class to go…sigh… For Day 3, I chose one of the sketches and kept with the color scheme. All of the bee cards I’ve seen in class lately had reminded me that I had this great stamp set from Fiskars called “Beary Fun”. […]
Summer Card Camp 2 – Day 2
Day 2 of Summer Card Camp provided lots of great ideas for stamping techniques using that same beautiful color scheme. I chose to try stamping on a painted background and this is what I came up with: I have a very large collection of acrylic paints (mostly from Martha Stewart because her paints are highly […]
Online Card Classes Summer Card Camp 2 – Day 1
I love bright colors, so the Week 1 color scheme from Online Card Classes Summer Card Camp 2 was right up my alley. I chose to keep this one as a simple one-layer card so that I could highlight all the pretty colors. I’d love to go back and try one or more of the […]
4th of July Patriotic Wreath
Happy 4th of July! I’ve loved all holidays since I was a kid…I just adore having a reason to celebrate even small things in life. My motto has always been that “anything worth doing is worth overdoing”, and there’s evidence of that in the birthday presents I buy, the Christmas lights that adorn my house […]
Spectrum Noir Summer Challenge
I splurged on the entire set of Spectrum Noir markers a while ago and really liked this challenge because it gets me coloring as well as using some of those summer-themed stamps that sadly go mostly unused because I’m mainly a card-maker. All you have to do is create a project with a summer theme […]
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Hero Arts – Stamp Your Story When I saw the new Map of America stamp from Hero Arts, I immediately ordered it…it just reminded me of a treasure/”pirate” map and I could think of several ways to incorporate treasure maps into different cards. Technically, I think it’s considered a vintage geomagnetic map and it may […]