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 An umbrella and rain drops in a fall collage?  why? And why did I not see the umbrella before I purchased this stamp? Umbrellas are for Spring! Is it just me? I purchased the stamp because it was for slimline cards and because I love all things fall.   When it arrived and I began…

Oh, Jennifer McGuire, you have taken me on so many crafting journeys.  Sometimes when I begin a project with you I hear Star Trek music in the background telling me we will go  where no woman has gone before. That was the case with this card. We are in September of the pandemic.  I haven’t…

  My son and his wife are going to love this.  Their dog IS a bone collector! Emma Williams is my inspiration for this and so many of my other projects.  When I’m looking for the perfect Tim Holtz collection idea, I go to Emma’s blog.  She figures it all out and I just have…

I’ve started to make a Magic Iris card a couple times now but each time found I needed yet another Add-On.  Now the entire collection is mine. The Lady Bug card by Nicole Spohr started the whole thing.  Next week I am going to do a zoom class with three friends so they can make…

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.