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Dog Days!

Today over in the CLASSroom, I show you how to make this special personalized photo notecard . . . I hope you'll join me! Read more →

Lily Thanks

Today's JustRite background stamps being featured today are Stitched Ribbon and Ticking Stripe: I combined them with Easter Blessings Oval Medallions (lily), Classic Scallop Borders One, and Spring Words. The lily image was colored with these Copic markers: The ribbon background was stamped in two different colors of Distress Ink, then cut and pieced together. The scalloped border was stamped with Versamark ink onto spring moss cardstock (I like that it matches the pattern in the stitched ribbon background and is easily die cut with Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Edgeabilities!). The ticking stripe background was stamped with white chalk ink onto rose cardstock: Love the fabulous font of this Thank You sentinent from Spring Words! The pink center of the lily started with the darker Copic marker, R83, blended out towards the tips of the petals with lighter RV11; and finally faded to white with lightest RV00. Card is 5-inches square. Thanks so much for stopping by today! These JustRite designers also have samples to share with you: JustRite Inspiration Blog Sharon Harnist < You are here! Linda Duke Darsie Bruno Eva Dobilas Angela Barkhouse Stamps: JustRite Cling-Stitched Ribbon & Ticking Stripe Backgrounds; JustRite Clear-Classic Scallop Borders, Easter Blessings Oval Medallions,... Read more →

Copic Coloring Guide 2 Giveaway Winner!

Time to announce the winner of my Copic Coloring Guide 2 giveaway! Thanks so much to all of you who took the time to enter and leave comments and suggestions for future Copic tutorials -- please rest assured those ideas will be put to good use soon! A big congratulations to #38, chosen by Random.org: 38 - Marcie Smith said... So life like Sharon!!!! I am so excited for an additional publication. Loved the first one and refer to it often. Marcie Reply March 05, 2012 at 09:48 AM Congratulations, Marcie -- I've sent you an email, if you don't find it please contact me using the email link provided under my photo at the right side of my blog. If you did not happen to win this fabulous new book, I just saw that Ellen Hutson now has the book in her store HERE! Read more →

Easter Blessings Basket

Today's JustRite cling background stamp introduction is Chevron Stripe: Combined with Spring Words: I made this 5.50" x 7.50" Easter basket card: I colored the chevron background stamp with Memento Markers and stamped onto white cardstock. The basket shape is from Cricut's Everyday Pop-Up Cards and the pretty filigree eggs are from Designer's Calendar cartridge. The Easter greeting was also inked with Memento Markers and die cut with Spellbinders Teardrop Circles die. It is popped up on Copic's high tack double-sided foam tape over a blue strip of cardstock embossed with Spellbinders Paisley M-Bossabilities. A tidbit from JustRite: Its Original Stamp Retirement Sales ends March 21. After that, all those great stamp sets will return to full price. These are the lowest JustRite Original prices of the year! These JustRite design team members also have projects with these sets to share today: JustRite Inspiration Blog Sharon Harnist < You are here! Kazan Clark Heidi Blankenship Barb Schram Angela Barkhouse Michele Kovack Thanks so much for stopping by today! I haven't forgotten about announcing the winner of my Copic Coloring Guide 2 giveaway, found here. I will try to do that this week, by Friday -- we had a sudden death... Read more →

New Stamp TV Kit

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! As you hop through the blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops! Today we are featuring projects from the new StampTV Kit, Petals & Wings: The wonderful frame from this set coordinates with Spellbinders Labels 16 die and mimicks the pattern in the brand new gorgeous GKD Petals & Wings patterned paper pack I used . . . isn’t it beautiful for Spring?!! The label was stamped with Spun Sugar Distress Ink and the sweet birds on the vine were inked with Memento Markers. Then I fussy cut out the birds/vine and mounted them with Copic's High Tack Double-Sided Foam Tape over the die cut label, which was also mounted with the foam tape to the card front. The lower edge of... Read more →

JustRite Keep Calm Cube

Today starts the official March release of JustRite’s collection of new cling rubber background stamps and you’ll be seeing daily inspiration from the JustRite design team all this week! Today’s background stamps being featured are Harlequin Script, Vintage Wallpaper, and Scrolled Vine. I used the first two, plus Ticking Stripe (being featured on Thursday) on my Just Keep Calm Cube: I envision this cube as a sort of Magic 8-Ball “roll of the dice” type decision-making tool, LOL! I might have to rig the cube so it stays on one of these two sides . . . the Go Shopping or Eat A Cupcake are my favorites! :) This was a 4-inch dollar store gift box I covered with white cardstock stamped with the background stamps in black ink. Each panel was easily attached with Copic’s High Tack Double-Sided Tissue Tape. To finish off each side of the cube and give it more dimension, without the bulk of extra layers, I used my 100-Black Copic marker to create a hand-drawn black border/mat on each side. One of the four gorgeous frames in JustRite’s clear Just Keep Calm set was stamped in five different colors of Tim Holtz Distress Inks and... Read more →

Copic Dimensional Rose

Today over in the CLASSroom, I have this Copic colored rose card -- popped up on lots of my favorite new dimensional foam tape from Copic! I hope you'll join me there for all the details on how I created it. And don't forget to enter on two posts below this one for your chance to win an autographed copy of the Copic Coloring Guide 2! Read more →

Perfect Cherries and Copic Tape Giveaway Winners!

Before I announce the THREE winners of my Copic tape giveaway (posted HERE), I wanted to share another Copic colored image that was created with some of the tutorials in the Copic Coloring Guide 2 in mind (so these are some of the things you can expect to learn from this book!): I previously detailed how to achieve the coloring/blending of two different color families on these cherries over on the Guest Artist page at Lockhart Stamp Company (the illustrator of these pretty Perfect Cherries)! Many thanks to all of you who took the time to leave comments and suggestions for future Copic tutorial ideas . . . without further delay, here are the winners: 1 - 151 - Donna Scobey said... I would like to have tutorials on water, still and moving. Thanks, Donna Reply March 02, 2012 at 12:36 PM 2 - 201 - Beth McBeth said... I would really like to see a tutorial on how to make layers of feathers on a bird without making them look like one sold band of color. Reply March 05, 2012 at 07:47 AM 3 - 11 - gretchen said... I would love how to learn to create nice shadows..... Read more →

Copic Coloring Guide 2 Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Hello and welcome to a very special blog hop! I am excited to announce my participation and publication in the new Copic Coloring Guide, Level 2: Nature! Authors Colleen Schaan and Marianne Walker have partnered up again with the team at Annie’s Attic and some of the most talented artists and designers in the industry to bring you a quality publication packed full of techniques, theory, tutorials, and inspiration. The 64-page book is the next step in the Coloring Guide series, offering information and educational material for crafters of all skill levels. From the introductory suggestions for creating a Copic journal and tips for working with digital images, to explanations of advanced blending techniques and detailed tutorials for coloring specific objects, the book presents useful information in an easy-to-follow format. A bonus CD comes with the book that contains all of the hand-drawn images used in the tutorial section of the book, along with the assembly instructions for all of the projects. Each participating designer is hopping today to give you a peak at their favorite project from the book -- and a chance to WIN your own autographed copy! I’m honored to share my Lockhart Perfect Pears card that... Read more →

Copic Announcement & Giveaway!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED . . . WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW MORNING (3/5/12). THANKS FOR ENTERING! The Copic family would like to extend a very warm welcome to new design team members Cindy Lawrence and Michele Boyer! Both of these ladies love their Copic products and are amazing artists! You’ll want to be sure to visit their blogs for fabulous Copic inspiration and give them a warm welcome, too, as they each have one of these fabulous Copic All-Marker carrying cases (markers not included) TO GIVE AWAY!! And that’s not all . . . each of the rest of the Copic design and instruction team members also have giveaways posted on their blogs. Here’s what the rest of us are giving away -- a brand new product from Copic, introduced at the Craft and Hobby Association show a few weeks ago: Copic High Tack Foam Mounting Tape: It’s available in 2mm thickness and either 1/2” wide or a unique 1/4” width (I think this width will be great for shaker cards)! Let me tell you a little more about this FABULOUS foam tape: I’ve had the pleasure of beta testing it for about the last year and am... Read more →