Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I'm excited to be Guest Designing today with the fabulous team from Seize the Birthday. The challenge this time is a Tic Tac Toe board. I chose a diagonal column: Stripes, Clean & Simple, Sentiment without the word birthday I had die cut this arched piece from a smooshed piece for a different card and didn't use it so it was laying on the table.  Same thing for the fern. They kind of fell together and looked good so that was a good starting point. I wanted to keep this CAS and needed stripes, so I found a stiped embossing fold ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! The background was embossed and lightly rubbed with white pigment ink. The sand dollars were stamped, die cut and embossed.  I watercolored a little pink over the  beige in homage to the mood board. And do you see the beach girl's legs on this card? Challenges: Can You Handle the Pressure - Use embossing Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - 4th week of the month-ATG Just Us Girls #736 - Bobby's Mood Board Tic Tac Toe #252 - Betty's Board (Center Column - Die Cuts, Free, Any Sentiment)    Card Recipe Stamps:  Seaside Wi ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I thought about doing a Christmas card with the Color Hues colors, but decided to use a piece from my UFO box instead. This started with a sample I did for my May 2024 calendar page. The image was stamped with Copic friendly ink and colored with red and green Copics. Challenges: Color Hues #91 - Red and Green Krafty Chicks #725 - CAS   Card Recipe Stamps:  Wild Rose (TT) Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Black Other:  Everyday Sentiments II Glimmer Plate (Spl), Copics (R30, R24 ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I found this design piece in my UFO box.  I think it was a leftover from a class. It only took a few minutes to put it on a summertime card. I didn't use to like bees, but I've learned how important they are to our environment and worry when they aren't covering my lantana.  It seems like they're not as plentiful as they  used to be, but there are always some enjoying it. Here's the card we did in a 2022 class. Challenges: Just Us Girls #735 - Word Week - Summertime Card Recipe Stamps:  Honeybee Home (SU), Thic ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I love coloring die cuts and I love embossing.  It's not surprising that I LOVE a combination of the two. The sets that have dies that can be embossed are such fun! First I die cut the flowers from mixed media paper.  Then I placed them in the  corresponding place in the embossing folder and embossed.   I also embossed a piece for the background. I watercolored the flowers with Distress ink smooshed on my palette and picked up with a damp waterbrush keeping the color in the center of the flowers. If I lose any of the ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! My apologies to those of you who don't like seeing Christmas cards in the summer. It helps me to make Christmas cards all year so I don't have a big push in December.  I got caught one year and learned my lesson. I found this tree all cut out and glued together in the folder with the die.  The little birds were cut too and waiting to perch on some snowy branches. A snippet of a background was a perfect fit and I liked how it looked on the dark navy background.  The background was pierced with my snowflake backplate.  The ph ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! My friend Nance and I hadn't had an opportunity to get together for  a long time.  I think we figured it had been 8 months! Fortunately we were able to work it out recently and we had a lot to catch up on. Nance brought some of her recent purchases and I shared some of mine. I couldn't resist her seagulls. I combined this fun fella with a new stencil for a beachy scene. I "caught" this guy in a Polaroid shot and embossed the frame. The stenciling on the card base was done with the leftover ink on my blending  brush from the ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I love poppies and I love dies that add texture and dimension. So when I saw this die in a Simon Says Stamp release recently, I snapped it up. I am not disappointed. There are pieces for two poppies on this die and I cut them out of  mixed media paper. I laid the pieces on another piece of mixed media paper and watercolored by picking up ink from the inside of some Stampin' Up inkpads.  My messy watercoloring added some color to what would become the background of my poppies. I die cut the "over wash" piece, assembled the poppies an ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! A very new purchase worked perfectly for a favorite challenge. I found an aqua color background that was made from smooshing mixed media paper into Gansai Tambi watercolors and water.  I used a new embossing folder to add "waves"  into the background. This set comes with stamps, dies and an embossing folder. I stamped the sand dollars with Sahara Sand ink, die cut them then fitted them inside the embossing folder.  The texture is awesome and makes them look almost real! I stamped the starfish with VersaFine and heat embossed it ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! The Greetery is having a special sale today, July 5th. You can read about how the money will be used to help neighbors in this community by clicking here. It's a good time to get some (or all) of those awesome Greetery products that you've been wanting at a discount and lend a helping hand too. To inspire you (maybe), here's a Christmas card I made using the Greetery's  Winter Sketches stamp. Today is the perfect time to get some more of their Curio Cabinets fun Findings. You can see cards made using the Summer Findings here   ..read more