Snow Blooms-White Craft Ink Meets Sheltering Tree
Snow! It’s easy to create the look of snow using white craft ink! For this card, I wanted the tree from Sheltering Tree to be covered in snow blooms. I started by stamping the blooms from Sheltering Tree onto my Smokey Slate card front. I then stamped the trunk using Early Espresso ink. I added […]
My Own Botanical Blooms Designer Paper
This is one of the projects we did for this month’s Stamp Club. Our hostess wanted to use the Botanical Blooms stamp set along with the coordinating Botanical Builder Framelits Dies. I wanted the Stamp Club members to use as many of the stamps in the set, so we made our own Designer Paper. Not […]
You Brighten My Day Sunburst Blotter Cards
Recently, I received a very special gift in the mail from Dan Stouffer. Dan Stouffer is an accomplished watercolor artist that lives in New Mexico. He and his wife Jean are long time family friends. Both my Mom and I have an extensive collection of Dan Stouffer paintings in our houses. The special gift that […]
Sponged Sky-Less is More Challenge Tearing
This week’s challenge over at Less is More is “Tearing”, in any form, bold or subtle. As I was sitting at my dining room table this morning thinking about this challenge, I looked up and this is what I saw out my window! Someone asked me the other day where I get my inspiration. Oh […]
Sponged Sky Background-Lovely As a Tree
This card was inspired by my own little world located in the Hardscrabble Canyon in southern Colorado. This is the view of our house from across the highway. A little house located in a big forest! I am very lucky to have this continual source of beautiful inspiration! Supplies Used: Stamp Set: Lovely As […]
Sponged Sky Background-Scenic Season
This is the “Happy New Year” card I created at the beginning of the year after a winter storm passed through our area on December 31. The background is done using masking and the sponged sky techniques. This is one of those WOW techniques that is simple to create. Want to learn more? You may […]
Delightful Decorations Shimmer Paint
Here is another card created using Shimmer Paint. I mixed Frost White Shimmer Paint with a drop of Old Olive reinker and dabbed onto the ornaments found in the Delightful Decorations stamp set using a sponge dauber, then stamped and punched out using the Ornament Punch. The one is the middle was lined up in […]
Medallion Shimmer Paint
Have you seen the new Shimmer Paint found in the Holiday Mini Catalog from Stampin’ Up! I am having so much fun playing with this new product. It adds such a pretty, sparkly effect, especially when it is mixed with alcohol and spritzed on your entire project. For this card, I mixed a drop of Champagne […]