Well last week my youngest turned 21. This week my oldest turns 25. Wow it just seems like yesterday they were in grade school. I think the older you get the faster time flies. My oldest has 2 cats and a dog. She has had the cats since she was in college and adopted them from the vet she worked for. They are both mischievous and always racing through the house. One is gray and the…
Masculine cards are hard to do and if you are like me most of your stamps are flowers. I do have a few images that are animals and Kay has a lot of frogs and hedgehogs that are great for masculine cards. I had a cute saying so I used one of her images and created another card using the same colors and paper as I used yesterday. When making masculine cards you need to be careful…
Sorry for the late post but Kay had physical therapy and had to have her blood tested today so I was playing chauffeur. The Penny Black Challenge this week was to create a masculine card without using blue. I borrowed Kay’s cute frog stamps and found this great patterned paper in my DCWV Glitter Stack to go with it. Here is one of the cards I came up with. Stamps: It’s a Circus (Penny Black),…
I was playing last night with a few of my sketches from the swap I was in. This was a cute sketch I got that I wanted to play with. I saw this layout on several cards and thought it would be good for this sketch. This is definitely a layout I will be using again as it is a great way to highlight patterned paper. I love how the polka dot ribbon compliments the…
Have you got some of those long stamps and wonder how you can use them to create a regular size card. I have a few and lately I have been playing with cutting each image apart and making a card out of each image on the long stamp. I had fun last night making several cards with the images and then pulled materials to do a few more cards to post later. I have been…
Did you think I had given up stamping? My sister is keeping me busy with her therapy appointments and blood tests but I got some time to stamp yesterday. I worked with some images I got in a swap. I like these little bees and thought this would be a cute one to make a card with. Here is what I came up with. Stamps: Bee Thankful (Stampendous) Paper: Certainly Celery, white, DCWV stack Ink:…
