HI Everyone. Happy Tuesday. Hope you are all having a great week. I have a quick card for you tonight based on the challenge across at one of my favorite challenge sites - Inkspirational. I'm just sorry that I don't get to play along more often these days! Now.... I have VERY few small stamps, but remembered that I had a set from the Hero Arts Monthly card kit that would be perfect. It comprises of many multiple small stamps that I was able to group together to create a scene. There's a story behind this card :-) I wanted... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday. It's my turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's a clean and simple theme challenge: I decided to have a little fun with this challenge. I haven't used my crazy emu stamp for a while and decided it was time to dust him off and give him some crazy hair. I inked up my stamp with markers using a mixture of reds, greens and yellows. Instead of the normal black ink, I used Altenew's Industrial Diamond - a really nice grey. I huffed and puffed onto the stamp to re-wet it and... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Tuesday. I hope you are all having a great start to the week. I have the last of my Altenew Educator Certification Program cards to share with you tonight. My card was inspired by the second lesson in Clean, Simple & Colorful Techniques class taught by the fabulous Laura Bassen. This particular lesson focused on coloring with a blending tool and then adding detail with Copic markers. Hey.... when ever do I need to have an excuse to make a card using Copic markers and the flicking technique :-) I started by stamping the images for my... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Nance's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's a color challenge: So....this color combo was a huge challenge for me. Crumb cake?!!! I never use Crumb Cake and I don't have Lemon Lime Twist - or Calypso Coral :-) So, I had to go looking through my supplies and find the closest things that I could. Next.... what stamps to use? I spent a few minutes - well about 20 in total! Going through my stash and trying to work out what to use. In the end, I couldn't... Read more →
Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday. It's the wonderful Barb's turn to host our Addicted to CAS challenge this week and she has a wonderful code word for us: I hope you will join us and play along this week. If you do, and you are chosen as our winner, the fabulous Kylie has a wonderful $20 gift card for you to her store! If you are looking for some inspiration, you have to look no further than the cards from our amazing design team. I hope you will visit our very talented guest designer, too. Her circular rainbow card is wonderful... Read more →