Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I have two Christmas cards today from my December 2023 calendar. I'm always happy to recycle those calendars and they are making my Chrismtas stash grow. The holly is die cut from watercolor paper and colored. Challenges: Peace on Earth Christmas #62 - Inspired by jars with holly Jingle Belles - Recycle   Card Recipe (card 1) Stamps:  Splatter Ink:   Baked Brown Sugar, Shaded Spruce, Pine Needles (DM), Real Red (SUM) Paper:   Watercolor, Neenah Solar White, Real Red, DP Other:  Holly Berry D ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I'm joining Darnell with a stenciled card today.  It's the S in I.D.E.A.S. Thanks for the push to use a NBUS stencil, Darnell. I haven't used a lot of layered stencils.  (Confession: they cornfuse me and I usually am off on the alignment. ) But I had this kit sitting in my NBUS box since last summer and this was just the excuse to use it and make one of my daughter's a birthday card. I couldn't decide on what colors to use until I saw the mood board at Just Us Girls.  The peach colored sunflower inspired me to use shades of peac ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I recently found a box of flowers stickers deep in the cupboard. In it were several different styles and sizes of daisies. Pairing one (or two) up with a salted background in my stash, came together for a card for the Color Hues challenge. This is an A6 size and a bit larger than I usually make.   I'm trying to use up some envelopes. The salted background was made by wetting a piece of cold press  watercolor paper and sprinkling Color Burst Powders over it. When it was completely blended and still wet, I sprinkled some coarse s ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! This week Darnell's I.D.E.A.S is Embossing. She's come up with this fun way to start off the week with a starting point for a card. I've embossed a piece of Black Mixed Media paper and added a bit of watercolor with Metallic Watercolor Paint to the raised parts. I thought it made a very dramatic background and added some die cut leaves over top. I love how the die embosses the leaves as it cuts. Challenges: Can You Handle the Pressure - Use Embossing Card Recipe Stamps:  BP Fancy Sentiment Strips Plate (Spl) Ink:    Pape ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! Today's card came from my UFO box.  It was from this calendar page. I'm not sure if it was from the actual calendar or if it was a test piece. It's been in there for a long time. I didn't like the colors and with nothing to lose, I decided to color over it with my Ohuhu markers to see if I could improve it.  I was glad I did. I added some gold foil mini dots to the center and some gold splatter and a sentiment from the stash. The background piece had been set aside because I got overzealous with splatters. I decided it wasn't so bad ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! Challenges: Color Throwdown #788 - Pink, Green, Yellow Double D - Cute Little Animals   Card Recipe Stamps:  Bubbly (PB) Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Regal Rose Other:  Copics (W0, W1, W2, W5, RV02, RV13, Y18, YG07, G14), Wonky Stitched Rectangle Die (MFT), Stitched Swirls Cover Plate (LI-OOB), Mini Everyday Sentiments Foil Plate (Spl) Black Foil (Spl) Enjoy! If you would like to subscribe by email, please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar. I ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I am loving the colors that Cindy chose for Color Hues #84, Peach and Green. I was going through some of my dies a while back and found this die that I'd forgotten about. So I put it in my "need to use" pile.  These colors worked perfectly for it. I had the outline already cut from white cardstock in the envelope and cut another from a scrap of mixed media paper, keeping the inside pieces intact. I love coloring die cuts and one of my favorite ways to do it is sitting on a piece of mixed media paper so my over-wash gives me a perfectly co ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! It's color week at Just Us Girls and the colors make me think of Halloween, but I went in a different direction.  The colors? Purple, Orange and Mustard! I pressed some Wilted Violet on my craft mat and spritzed with water to smoosh the  bottom portion of a mixed media panel, dried it and smooshed some more.  Then I  pressed Villainous Potion on my mat and repeated for a little contrast. I used the same technique on the the top portion with Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade. Then to figure out what to put on the piece? I'v ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I have a stack of Betterpress designs waiting to be colored.  It seems like there's always something else that needs to be done and coloring gets put aside. With a color choice of peach and green, I had to push life out of the way and get my brush wet! It was so much fun coloring this with Arteza Twi-markers. After coloring the image, I usually  do a wash with blue re-inker.  Since Color Hues  wants us to use just the two colors and any neutrals the blue was out. The drop of Brushed Corduroy Distress re-inker in my dish ca ..read more

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by! I was able to get two for one with this pressing of Spellbinders'  Flutter Into Spring. When I pressed it I placed the sentiment in what turned out to be an awkward place. I went ahead and colored the images using my Arteza Twi-markers.  I was so pleased with  the way these markers worked on the Betterpress paper. I die cut the panel bypassing the hummingbird and sentiment. The dots are Nuvo Crystal drops and the design is placed on an embossed background. Since the hummingbird was all colored, he needed to be put on a card to ..read more