Happy April Fool’s Day to you! Hopefully our weather will begin to act more like the beautiful Springs we can have here in Southern Maryland. Today’s card is a twist that Susan from Card Sketch A Day designed. Our task was to design the front of the card to look like an envelope. I have to say this really stumped me. I thought about this for WEEKS and finally when I was under the gun…
I have had this Easter image for several weeks and haven’t been able to use it. I did not have an acrylic block big enough for it to fit on. I had tried using a long block I had which took care of the width of the stamp but when I tried several options to address the height of the image, nothing worked. I had a friend I met on the Stamp TV forums for…
Well I didn’t get a card made for my Stamp – a – Stack, but I did get 2 other cards made. I will have to work on my workshop and Stamp – a – Stack cards this afternoon. I had not done the Penny Black Challenge in quite some time and when I saw this weeks challenge I knew I had just the image to do this one. I had this image with the…
I have been busy the past few days making these little surprise boxes for the ladies who are coming to my workshop tomorrow. I found out that I will have 13 ladies which surprised the manager as she said they don’t usually leave their apartments. I thought I would make them a little something to make their day. These are the 3 nugget boxes you can find on this post at Splitcoast Stampers. I modified…
Happy Saturday everyone! Thanks for stopping in today. I wanted to share with you some cards I will be doing at a workshop on Monday. We have a retirement village close to me that the manager has asked me to do some cards with the residents. The residents are older and capable of living on their own (they have apartments in the building) but are on fixed incomes. I came up with 3 simple cards…
I needed a birthday card for an 85 year old gentleman. I thought it would be fun to use the Loads of Love set to see what I could come up with. I stamped the truck and packages on watercolor paper. Then using the ink in the lid and and aquapainter, I colored in the truck. I colored the tires with a marker rather than watercoloring them. To make the bumpers, I colored them silver…
