It’s Wheel Week – Day 1

Happy Monday Morning to you! Did you have a good weekend? Tonight I begin teaching my graduate course so I spent time over the weekend preparing for that as well as making my cards to post this week as I will have no time to play. This week the challenge at Late Night Stampers is to pull out your wheels and make some cards. My cards this week will show you some ways to use…

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I am 5 for 5!

Well I have made 5 brayer cards this week – one each day. I have had fun playing with the brayer and learned some new techniques. For today’s card I decided to try to do a Zindorf case. Michelle does a beautiful job with the brayer. If you haven’t visited her blog make sure you do. I needed to decide on my colors so I went looking for a color challenge. I found one that…

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I’m 4 for 4

Well only 1 more day and the weekend will be here. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today’s card is a result of my brayering for yesterday’s card. After I had brayered the paper I loved the look and wondered what it would look like with green. So while I had my colors out and my mojo flowing I pulled out a green and brayered another piece for today’s card. My goal was to stamp a silhouette on it. As…

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My attempt at the bouncing brayer technique

It’s Wednesday! Wow the middle of the week already. These days are flying by. The convention will be here before I know it. I saw a summer time challenge at Our Creative Corner and since I am still playing with the brayer I thought I would try and create a flower with the brayer technique since flowers are summer to me. I watched a video for brayer techniques that included the bouncing brayer technique (I…

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Playing with the Brayer

Second post make sure you scroll down to see my meander book! This will be a quick post. I am headed to my sisters for our weekly crosstitch and dinner. I wanted to make sure I did a post today with a card that used the brayer. I was searching for techniques at you tube and I ran across one where the lady used paint and lace. Well leave it to me to see if…

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The secret is out!

I have been keeping a secret for about a week now. I received a lovely e-mail from Genny at Hand Stamped Sentiments. She was asking me to be their first guest designer. I was so honored to be chosen. This is one of my regular challenge sites. I love the work these ladies do and their challenges are so much fun. This week was a theme challenge. They chose the theme Father’s Day. I could…

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