A Watercolored Rose

I got one of the new Level 2 hostess sets. I love this set. It has some great images for watercoloring. I saw a watercoloring challenge on the Stampin B’s Design Team blog. So I chose the carnation looking flower image. I decided to try using my watercolor crayons on the image. I colored the stamp leaves with Always Artichoke and the stamp petals on the flower were Rose Red on the outside petals and…

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Another In Color Card

Late last night I posted a card that used some of the new In Colors. Today’s card uses some new colors as well as a new hostess set. I used the color challenge on the Colour Create blog. The challenge was to use any three of the following colors – Strawberry, Raspberry, Kiwi, Tangerine and Blackberry. This translated into red, pink, green, orange, and black. I chose to use pink (Melon Mambo), green (Gable Green),…

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I am really late with this one!

Hi Everyone! I must apologize that I did not get a card posted yesterday. I was busy the entire day preparing for the college class I teach which started last night. I had some errands to run today so when I finished I made some creations for you to see the next few days as I have class again tomorrow night. I promised you last week that I would share some new catalog items this…

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The Weekend is Here!

Since I am in New York this week I do not have a sketch set for you this weekend. Before I left on Tuesday I had my monthly card class with the ladies at New Towne Village. I thought I would share those cards with you today. Here are the 3 cards the ladies made. The first card we made was a modified version of the card I did at my June workshop. Stamps: Independence…

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A cute birthday card

My card today was for a Gallery Idol challenge at Paper Crafts Connection. The challenge is to make an original birthday card. I had this image that I ordered online and wanted to use it. I thought it would make a cute birthday card. I stamped the image 2 times on white, 2 times on blue patterned paper, and 2 times on saffron patterned paper. I then cut out the pieces and did some paper…

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A Rose Card for My Chemo Friend

My Chemo Friend likes roses. I thought it would be a good to use the Fifth Avenue Floral and the color splash technique to create a card to send to her. To make my rose, I used Shimmery White paper and Cameo Coral ink and Versamark to clear emboss the rose 4 times. I created 4 layers from the finished images. I used the sketch from the Card Patterns blog for my card. It was…

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