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:…
I saw this really cool project on Patty Stamp’s blog. So I decided to hold a small class doing this project and it was lots of fun. The faux sea glass was done with shrink plastic they were colored with crystal effects and re-inker’s. One thing that I would change is that next time I would use split rings (a little more difficult to use) not jumper rings. Candice
