By Your Side kit adorable dog

By Your Side kit adorable dog Hello everyone – I have a fun card for you with the By Your Side kit adorable dog idea. Vicky and I are collaborating with kits this month. Check out her idea here. When I looked at the punch outs in this kit I fell in love with this adorable dog. I can see him laying a big sloppy kiss on my cheek. I could not wait to make…

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Anything Goes Saturday – another idea for Freedom Field

Anything Goes Saturday – another idea for Freedom Field Hello everyone – I had so much fun creating last week’s card that I had to play again with the Anything Goes Saturday – another idea for Freedom Field dsp. I love pretty paper and I ran across some that I loved playing with last Saturday. I pulled out the piece I cut into last week to play with it again. The piece of dsp had…

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Stenciling on pattern paper

Stenciling on pattern paper Happy Friday Stampers – another fun idea with Stenciling on pattern paper today. This was a fun technique and it was great to stencil on pattern paper. I did have to search for some dsp that had a faint pattern so it would not overtake the stencil design. This is a clean and simple idea and I cold see this being done in a variety or colors. Check out the Stenciling…

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Color blending for a clean and simple card

Color blending for a clean and simple card Hello Everyone – I have two Color blending for a clean and simple card ideas for you today. Playing with color is fun and you can use it to create a color blended element as a background for your card. Choose several colors that go together or a light and dark of the same color and mask off a section. Pull out your blending brushes and just…

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Playing with hand drawn frames

Playing with hand drawn frames Hello everyone – In a recent Facebook Live I was Playing with hand drawn frames and wait until you see the cards I created using this technique. I love finding long lost techniques and playing with them. One idea that I ran across was using a fine line writer to make a frame around your image. The first card used a Paper Pumpkin stamp that I colored. Then I used…

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Collaboration with Vicky – By Your Side kit

Collaboration with Vicky – By Your Side kit Hello Everyone – Sunday means it is another Collaboration with Vicky – By Your Side kit. For today’s card I used one of the sketches from the new annual catalog. It is easy to create alternatives when you have a sketch to spark your creativity. Having a layout makes it easy to get started. For my card, I used the pieces from the kit to create the…

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