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  • Thankful for You

    This was the shaker that just didn’t know when to stop!!    It all started with this darling bunny from Simon Says/Newtons Nook Stamptember stamped in Memento and colored in Copics.  The blue background is distress ink.   The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.  Dies are from i.o.  The front panel is embossed with a…

  • You’re A-maize-ing

    Even though Sandy Allnock’s Go for the Gold Class is over, I’m still all about the gold!Simon Says Monday Challenge is Fall.  My favorite!  This Happy Harvest Lawn Fawn stamp is all I needed for creating a cute fall card.  Notice the cornstalks in back are stamped with Delicata gold.  It really shines.  The elements…

  • Oh what fun!

    More Go With the Gold with Sandy Allnock.  I loved this lesson as Sandy gave  a Copic markercombo that looks like gold!   Check out that sled!  With a little Wink of Stella it shines metallic.I used Dreamweaver Embossing Paste and a Simon Says Falling Snow stencil for part of the circle.The snow hill part…

  • fleece navidad

    Sandy Allnock is having a fabulous 7 day series on different gold mediums.  This gift tag for my granddaughter is heat embossed with gold Wow embossing powder.  The sentiment, lights and little lamb are stamps from Lawn Fawn.  The stamp-layered tree is from Hero Arts.  I used Copics and Memento ink on the lamb.  The…

  • Poultry in Motion

    Yesterday I went to the Scrapbook Expo in Mesa with three friends.  We just had a wonderful day enabling each other’s stamp addiction. The sentiment stamps in the Impression Obsession booth were great!  The more I looked, the more I laughed.  This sentiment “Poultry in Motion” just cracked me up.  I had to have it….

  • Tube Watercolors

                                          Watercolor for Cardmakers Exploring Mediums Day 2I’m about ten million miles from my comfort zone on this one!!  Jennifer Rzasa used this technique with tube watercolors.  It was my first time to use tube watercolors.  The…