Stampscapes have been around for a long time and I've watched all the videos Ken has made on how to use these awesome stamps to create one of a kind art pieces. I recently decided to pull out my glossy paper, stylus and work through a project using the Stampscapes traditional techniques. I started with an 8.5 x 5.5 sheet of glossy. I stamped my scene and then using a mix of Ranger ink pads I...
The idea for this card came from the Splitcoast Stampers Try a New Technique Challenge for this week which is paper casting. I use MD toilet paper which is a soft 2-ply tissue. I separated 4 sheets so that is 8 total sheets since each is 2-ply....
Sometimes my husband does something completely extraordinary. We are prepping our home to sell. It has an in ground swimming pool. The pool is over 40 years old. Around the pool are large cement slabs and on the north side two of those slabs have sunk. They've sunk quite far and for years we would make our nieces and their friends watch for stubbed toes on that side while running and being...
At the March craft retreat I had 3 tasks on my agenda. This was the first one I tackled. I'd finished the basic layers and tags for this album, but had not decorated it in any way. So, I spent a lot of time on adding photos, distressing the tags and adding embellishments and ephemera. At the next retreat in May I will be adding all of the text elements as well as more distressing. This video...
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I've been in love with Copic Markers since I discovered them a little more than a year ago. I feel like I am late to the party on every level of papercrafting and my aha moment with Copics came sometime early last year. I am thinking back now to when I first decided,"OMG will you look at the vibrant colors that this line of markers produces!". It...
In March, I attended my third Stampin' Up Stamp Camp. I enjoy these events because there are multiple demonstrators and each teaches one or two projects. I get to use alot of SU products in one day and I get to visit with my crafting friends. Here's the run down of the projects.
My favorite was the tri-fold art. I own the stamp set and liked the clever use of punches for the feet and...
I love the gloss and glitter accents on this card stock. I used the card base die and because this cardstock is so thick, I did not feel the need to start with a solid colored base and add this design cardstock as a second layer. The result is very clean. I cut a bunch of flower dies in matching cor'dinations cardstock. I added opal and silver accents withViva pens. The sentiment is from a...
I have been very involved in the horse industry for oh 25 years now. In the early 1990s I showed at Zone and Open shows, but by the mid 1990s I was competing at the AQHA breed level and later switched to reining so also added NRHA shows.
When I saw this spellbinders group of dies I knew they would make perfect simulated belt buckle cards. I own S5-077 Labels 25 and use S5-210 Adorning...