Video - January Love Fest Episode 5 - Two Card Walkthroughs

Publish Date: 
1/26/2024
January Love Fest 2024 Episode 5 | Tracy Marie Lewis | www.stuffnthingz.com

Both these cards are lovely.

I spent alot of time working on the various treatments to the layers of paper on card two.

Here's the list of fun things I did with the layers.

  • started with dry embossing with Timber 3D. 
  • roughed up the edges of many of the layers
  • sanded off the top of the brown on the DSP layer
  • curled up a coupld of the corners
  • ...

Video - +45 Alternatives January 2024 Paper Pumpkin - Lovely Lavender +extra supplies, tips, demos

Publish Date: 
1/20/2024

This is a lovely kit. It seems lately all of them are great! I think tying it in to the Lovely Lavender suite works very well.

It is nice to see a different spin on Valentine's day. I shared a variety of colors options giving you many possibilities of colors other than the purple. 

The showcase has 45 layouts, many of which I didn't even demo in the video, Enjoy!

Video - January 2024 Love Fest Episode 4 - Two Card walkthroughs

Publish Date: 
1/19/2024

This and the subsequent episodes will feature a card made this year and a card from my Valentine stash. I will try to tell you where all of the elements came from but a few are so old I am not quite sure.

I figured out the splatter on the white card. It is the splatter from Color & contour which is still current so I have added it to the supplies list. 

Video - January Love Fest Episode 1 - Checkout 2018 to 2023 January Valentine Paper Pumpkin & Walk Through Card #1

Publish Date: 
1/9/2024

Winter in Florida is when everyone wants to visit. The weather is nice, in the 70s and normally it is dry. So with company coming in January & February I needed to get my Valentine cards finished early.

I used previous years of Paper Pumpkin kits and in this episode I share each kit with you to remind you of what each year's stamp set was as well as the instructions for the other...

Color Me This Episode 35 - Pencil Worksheet That Is Great For Beginners - Getting to know how to use colored pencils

Publish Date: 
12/2/2023

Are you like me and want to share the magic of colored pencils with anyone who is willing to try them? Do the people you think would enjoy using them say they have had trouble trying them for one reason or another?

Here's a worksheet that I think will help a beginner get to know how colored pencils work, without overwhelming them.

I've tweaked this form over the first few...

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