Today I am joining the NC Demos blog hop. We are focusing on retiring products as this is the last weekend before the new annual catalog launch.
If you just came from Ariel's blog, I hope you found her creation inspiring. Be sure to leave her a comment if you haven't already! If you are joining the hop starting with my blog, welcome, please enjoy our projects and I hope you. Even though...
Libby and I were very productive last Thursday. This is one of the projects we made. The colors are from a challenge we picked so are not either of our favorites.We enjoy challenging ourselves by using color challenges that aren't the best for our stamp sets to keep things interesting. We then discussed a particular pin that we thought was a good idea but the placement of the circles bothered...
It is time for a sneak peek card with all new products! These five colors are the new for 2020-2022 in colors.
Here's the color names in order of how they appear on the card:
This was a color challenge project. It was very quick to make and includes a new dry embossed background.
This was a crafting project made with Libby. It is a color challenge AND a sketch challenge. I kept is super simple. I used Lovely Lipstick light and dark in place of Melon Mambo. The sparkle glimmer paper has been colored with a dark Mango Melody Blend marker (very carefully so as to not damag the nib)
After crafting with Libby last thursday, we got together again yesterday and I asked if we could create more of one of my favorites from earlier in the week.
We ended up creating a bunch in a similar style using retiring DSPs, embossing folders, and embellishments. I walk through each card and talk about the various elements I've used. I also share one new product on each card. New...
I had fun creating this project. It was inspired by this pin -> link. I changed up most everything while keeping the layout as close as possible.
This project was my interpretation of this pin -> link. Gallery Grunge is retiring and both Libby and I wanted to create some projects with it. We paired this with a color challenge to spice things up a bit. I used markers to color random circles on the bubble stamp, then spritzed lightly with water and stamped...
This is the last project I made while crafting with my mom. It took most of the day. I changed the layout so many times! My goal was to use the beautiful green willow DSP and keep it a dominant feature. So, I tried all sorts of die cuts and settled on these yellow blossoms. /whew. Why is it always the final project that takes so long?
After crafting with my mom last week I took a very short crafting break to get in some practice time using my new colored pencils. I've spent hours and hours researching relevant YouTube tutorials and have downloaded the materials for a few of them. I chose to start with the leopard eye colored pencil study by Amie Howard. The tutorial is four and a half hours long, and I put in another two...