I don’t have too many background stamps that are amenable to this technique, so I chose one and tried out several different color and layering combinations before making the card for today: I stamped the first layer of pattern on Neenah Desert Storm cardstock using the Hero Arts Tweed Pattern stamp (S-5654) and Versamagic Ink […]
Hero Arts
Christmas in July, with Layered Embossed Vellum
Well…it’s like I had no choice…and the flood gates are now open. I spent the good part of an afternoon yesterday looking through all of my holiday stamps and salivating, and next thing I know one of the color schemes I’m given has red, green, black, and silver in it? It was too much, and […]
Plaid Stamping
I really wanted to make a shaker card today but I was short on time, so I chose my second favorite technique from the bunch – plaid stamping. I knew this would look great using the border stamp from “Cupcake Party” by Simon Says Stamp because I saw the video where Kristina used it on […]
Summer Card Camp Day 5 – New Color Challenge
Although I loved the color combination provided this week, I was thrilled to see a whole new set of colors to play with today. I immediately started envisioning a porthole when I saw Kristina’s window card and the first set of colors that seemed to be nautical-inspired to me. Here is what I came up […]
Summer Card Camp 2 – Day 2
Day 2 of Summer Card Camp provided lots of great ideas for stamping techniques using that same beautiful color scheme. I chose to try stamping on a painted background and this is what I came up with: I have a very large collection of acrylic paints (mostly from Martha Stewart because her paints are highly […]
Online Card Classes Summer Card Camp 2 – Day 1
I love bright colors, so the Week 1 color scheme from Online Card Classes Summer Card Camp 2 was right up my alley. I chose to keep this one as a simple one-layer card so that I could highlight all the pretty colors. I’d love to go back and try one or more of the […]
Untitled
Hero Arts – Stamp Your Story When I saw the new Map of America stamp from Hero Arts, I immediately ordered it…it just reminded me of a treasure/”pirate” map and I could think of several ways to incorporate treasure maps into different cards. Technically, I think it’s considered a vintage geomagnetic map and it may […]