In the midst of working with the re-inker spread technique, I discovered watercolor with re-inkers. While this may not be new to you , it was to me and I created this card from my first successful play. I liked the effect I got from using  the black embossing powder on the bashful blue cs [...]

Well, I promised you during the royal blog tour a view of the inside of the post it note holder and just realized it was still sitting in the to be posted file. So this post will be a view of the Animal Stories items I made for the tour and didn’t have room to [...]

I have been so busy this past 2 weeks. Convention was a blast, and then my daughter and I arrived at her home and I have been spending time with her before going home to Bellingham this weekend. We have been dealing with baby stuff and scrapbooking our first Stampin’ Up  Convention experience. I will [...]

I am so happy to share my swap card for the WOW card front swap with the ladies attending the 3rd Annual Convention Stamp Camp put on by Joanne Tofte and Karen Pichura. This card uses the Game Night stamp set; the Large star punch, the Modern Label punch; Jackpot DSP;Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Whisper [...]

Today I am going to share with you another card made with the Friends 24/7 set. Here’s the outside: and here is what I did with the inside of this card. More Certainly Celery ribbon enhanced the out side of the card while on the inside I place the message on the left and left [...]

I have been making gifts for a special friend who just loves this set. I was very fortunate to find the Stationary Box set by Amy Celona. Tho she used now retired dsp, I was able to shift to current dsp and in-colors and make up all the items in this set. the first one [...]

I made a bug card today, and let me tell you, the hardest thing was coming up with a design concept. I am NOT a bug person. Being highly allergic to most insect bites might play a small part in that, but anyway. I found a cute ladybug made out of our Stampin’ UP punches [...]

This is a fun card made with a variety of techniques. I used crumbled saran wrap with versamark to stamp the backgound texture on the Soft Suede cardstock. For the texture on the old olive cardstock i ran the precut piece thru my Big Shot with the diamond texturz plate. And after stamping the grass [...]

I am just getting around to taking pics of my Swaps that I got from Seattle Regionals. I plan to start with the retired set first. So here is number one. (My apologies to the maker, I forgot to write down her info before I used the card front on a the card and after [...]

It’s been one of those months, so far… I have been busy, busy with OES commitments, making projects and cards to give as gifts and as I worked and gave away I took photos only to have a computer missup that not only wiped my compact flash card but also my backup for the last 2months [...]