I am so excited. I do have a card to share so if you don’t want to read my good news, then skip down. I have been trying for about a year to be chosen to be on Design Team. It is a goal I set for myself as I knew it would help me improve my skills. I had tried several times but was not chosen. Well my luck changed last night. It was…
There was a challenge at the Hand Stamped Sentiments blog which was a technique challenge. You were to use the Faux Metal technique. Basically you put Versmark on your cardstock and add either gold or silver embossing powder, heat your paper and while the melted powder is still hot, you pour on more embossing powder and heat again. You do this at least 3 times and when you have heated your last layer you ink…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I have a birthday card to share with you today. I made it for the challenge at Late Night Stampers yahoo group. You were to create a birthday card. There were no other specifications so I decided to use the sketch challenge on Tracy’s Eat Sleep Stamp blog. When I looked at her sketch I saw the oval and didn’t want to go the usual route and cut a rectangle and…
I spent a little time on Monday in my craft room (still digging out in between also) and did 2 sketch challenges. I wanted to bring some sunshine and spring to everyone as we are in the middle of our 3rd major snow storm of the season. Those of you from up north may not think anything of this but here in my part of Maryland we rarely get over 5 inches all winter. We…
Happy Thursday! I decided to make another Valentine card. I used the sketch from Tracy’s blog Eat Sleep Stamp. I used a retired corner punch for the 4 corners. I also saw several years ago how you can slip the guard off corner punches to use on a straight sheet of paper. Whoever started this used this with the corner rounder to make a scallop strip before we had our scallop border punches. I decided…
Happy Saturday! It is very cold here. We are under and Arctic blast this weekend and we are not supposed to get above freezing. My heat pump has been running constantly. Don’t want to think what my electric bill will be next month! I played a little in my craft room yesterday. I had hoped to make several cards, but got a phone call and I have more people coming to my workshop today that…
