Stitching Challenge There is so much bling on this you need sunglasses! I continue my obsession with Statement Flowers. I’ve now done it in so many medias . . . now including stitching. I stamped Statement Flowers onto 14 count perforated paper and colored it with alcohol markers. I then used those colors to guide…
Peter Pan Halloween Tami Bastiaans inspired this Halloween Vinette Box. My Tim Holtz Halloween box of supplies was ransacked for this project. The background is a resist made with Distress Resist Spray and various Oxide sprays. The Haunted House is cut in black. Accents are from an ideology pad of pattern papers. It is covered…
Developing a Class As I was completing my last classes for AECP Level III Virginia and Erum encouraged me to begin thinking about what I wanted to teach for the class that would be my final project. It had to be water color. That had given me my greatest challenge and my greatest feeling of…
This is my second entry for the July Inspiration Challenge. I have been a Tim Holtz Addict for a long time. One of my most memorable classes was about 20 years ago in Cincinnati. It was early on a Sunday morning at my favorite stamp store. Tim taught a class with us making the usual…
Altenew Inspiration Challenge July 20202 This monthly inspiration challenge is a good reason to spread out your Altenew products and imagine what could be used to create something inspired by a photograph. Before the card was finished I had cardstock, water colors, die cuts, embellishments and stamps piled all over my desk tops. There were…
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Now that they are both old enough to count I need to make sure each grand child gets the same number of cards. This is for my grandson. It’s a quiet quarantine Saturday morning and I’m in the mood for a Lawn Fawn scene card.So many lawn fawn stamp sets and…
I have been reading Peter and the Star Catchers to my grandchildren. I wanted to convert some of the dies in Tim Holtz’ Trick or Treaters set to some of the Never Land characters. They will go into a vignette box inspired by Tami Basstiaans. The pirate is pretty much as he is designed in…
A friend told me she had purchased the Simon Says Quintuple Slider Die but hadn’t yet figured it out. Well, “Me too!” I said. So we are going to get on Zoom and figure it out together. I reviewed Jennifer McGuire’s video and went to work on this card for my grandson with Sunny…
Yana Smakula has been posting cards that are so unique that I immediately recognize the style as being hers. They are colored with alcohol markers and all have a dark background. This technique has been calling me. And my fresh-from-the-mailbox Primrose Build-a-Flower is needing to be inked. The card required a lot of masking….