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My  nephew will be 11.  Soon making cards for him will be a real challenge.  Everyone always comments about how hard man cards are.  I think tween boy cards are equally difficult. For this year a robot shaker works just fine. Inspired by Megan Quinn. I used black glossy embossing paste with a brick stencil…

I’ve decided my Halloween style should be called Pretty Scary.  I want it to be creepy but I also want some color and glitz thus pretty but scary. My most fun challenge every Halloween is to make a “card” for our friends who were married on Halloween.  This year I saw Emma Williams’ make called…

Gemma Barraclough posted the Medium Ect.Tag that inspired this tag. I worked on this tag while watching Tim Holtz’ Halloween release on Saturday. It is just loaded with Tim Holtz products: Haunted Gate Keeper Alpha Shadow Tree Life Frightful Things Trick or Treaters Theodore Flower Jar 3D Brick embossing folder  The Moon from Altenew is…

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…

Oliver My loyal stamping companion. Ollie has three different beds in my studio.  He is sure to be in one of them if I am in the room. Here he’s napping hugging his stuffed squirrel. It was so cute I just had to stop and take a picture.

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….