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May Has Fluttered By . . .

Can you believe the entire month of May is gone? I sure can't! But I'm ready for Summer, so I thought I would start celebrating with this bold and bright birthday tag: I hope you'll join me over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom to see how I used Copic Various Ink Refills to make it! Happy weekend! ~ Sharon Read more →

Copic Petaloo Tutorial

Just in case you happened to miss this post on the Petaloo blog, I wanted to let you know about the Copic tutorial I have over there, for this 5.25" x 6" card: It uses Petaloo's flowers for masking and creating the airbrushed lower background and custom coloring Petaloo's chipboard (birds & cage) with Copic Opaque White and Sketch markers . . . I hope you'll join me! ~ Sharon {Supplies} Copic: Opaque White; R83 Sketch Marker, Y21 Sketch Marker & E25 Sketch Marker; Airbrush System & Sparmax 101 Windstorm air compressor OR ABS-1N; X-Press It Blending Card; 1/4-inch Foam Mounting Tape, Petaloo: CMC Chipboard-Birdhouses w/Birds & CMC Darjeeling white recycled cotton flowers Stamps: JustRite Papercraft Let Your Soul Sing Paper: My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart-Be Amazing 6x6, chocolate cardstock Ink: Ranger Adirondack Shell Pink dye ink pad, Memento Rich Cocoa ink pad Other: Paint brush, clear self-adhesive gemstones, white embroidery thread, Cricut & Winter Wonderland cartridge Read more →

Have a Lovely Day!

Hello, everyone -- I hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day! I just wanted to let you know I have this project over on the Petaloo blog today. It is a 5-inch hanging wall plaque I altered from a dollar bin find: I used JustRite Papercraft's Birthday Vintage Labels Four on an Inchie Arts 3-inch black Art Square and white heat embossed it to create a popular chalkboard look. The center sentiment was stamped with white chalk ink and some smudges added for a realistic chalkboard look. You can find the rest of the design details over on the Petaloo blog -- I hope you'll join me there and I hope you have a lovely day! ~ Sharon {Supplies} Petaloo: CMC Gypsies Multi-Colored Centers and Jeweled Florettes flowers, All White Butterflies Copic: X-Press It Clear Gel Glue, 1/4-inch Double-Sided High Tack Tissue Tape, and 1/2-inch Double Sided Foam Mounting Tape; YG23 Copic Sketch marker Stamps: JustRite Papercraft Birthday Vintage Labels Four, Paper: Fancy Pants 6x6 Park Bench Ink: Versamark, Hero Arts Hero Hues Snow Chalk Ink, Other: Inchie Arts 3-inch black Art Square, 5-inch scalloped wood plaque (Hobby Lobby), Ranger white embossing powder & Heat It Craft Tool, Read more →

Copic Hobby Lobby Project Sheet 2013

If you are near a Hobby Lobby store, you may want drop by and pick up the newest Copic project sheet they probably have there, featuring Penny Black's Mimi in Paris character and Spellbinders dies: I had so much fun making this coordinating gift bag and greeting card combo -- Mimi and her little dog are so much fun to color! Always being able to find just the right Copic color to match just about any patterned paper color is one thing I adore about my Copics! Plus, you are assured the colors are permanent and won't run if they happen to get wet. You can find the instructions on how to create these projects over on my Copic FAQ & Tutorials page, towards the bottom under Tutorials. I hope you enjoy your long Memorial Day weekend! ~ Sharon Read more →

Lockhart Neon Thanks

Lockhart Stamp Company just released some wonderful new 2013 Spring & Summer images and today I'm using this sweet Gift of Flowers to create a fun thank you card over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom . . . I hope you'll join me there to find out how to create this unique card! ~ Sharon Read more →

Mother's Day Project

Happy Mother's Day weekend (yes, I intend to stretch the day out to cover the entire weekend, beginning today -- LOL!). If you are in need of a unique, customized Mother's Day gift, you may want to check out this photo mat project I made and have posted over on the Copic blog: Or be sure to get a photo either with your Mom or your children this Mother's Day and then make one of these for yourself! I need a good, updated photo of my girls for my frame . . . this one of us is from 2008 when they were 5 and 8! ~ Sharon Read more →

JustRite May '13 Release-Day 6

Hello and welcome back to the last day of JustRite Papercraft's May stamp set release inspiration hops! Today I just had to use this gorgeous new Botanical Postcard Background to dress up the cover of my 5" x 7" Copic sketch book / art journal: I also used Becca Feeken's new Amazing Paper Grace Filigree Journal Covers. The beautiful frame from this set was stamped in Versamark around the edges of the eggplant background and the words "Art Journal" from the set were stamped in black at the bottom: The swirls on each side of the Art Journal words are from Becca's Mix and Match Sentiments, also stamped in Versamark. I stamped the botanical background with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Sandy Beach dark cream cardstock and colored it with these Copic Sketch markers: I hand trimmed the botanical background and popped it up on Copic Foam Tape. Pretty lavender seam binding from Sharon Johnson's Stamp Simply Ribbon Store ties up and completes this journal. Thanks for joining me today! You can continue JustRite's inspiration hop, by visiting these JustRite designers: JustRite Inspiration Becca Feeken Sharon Harnist <=You are here! Kathy Jones Darsie Bruno Marisa Job Eva Dobilas Barb Schram... Read more →

Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 4

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous May release Inspiration Blog Hops … Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! As you hop through the blogs listed below, 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 Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hops. Our first featured stamp sets today are: The 3 Darling Divas by Debbie Corbari – Green Thumb, Mr. & Mrs., Rainy Day: And the new 1 free with 3, A Little Something. Just look at this sweet set -- can you believe it's FREE?!! I used them both on this 12" Project Life scrap page of my youngest daughter back in the Fall of 2009, when she was 7 (click on any photo for a larger view): The Rainy Day Darling Diva started it all -- she reminded me of these photos I hadn't scrapped! This pretty piece of My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing-Honey roses paper... Read more →

Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 3

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous May release Inspiration Blog Hops … Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! As you hop through the blogs listed below, 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 Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hops. Our first featured stamp set today is Weather or Not by Beth Silaika: I loved all the matching images and sentiments in this set and wanted to pair up a few of them, so I came up with a set of 3" x 4" Project Life cards for my scrapbooking. These could also be used as sweet lunch box notes for your kids OR they are also (near) ATC size! (Click on any photo for a larger view) I had so much fun with these! I started by using Beth's coordinating Weather or Not Silhouette cut file and die cut Gina's Ivory Heavy Base Weight cardstock (I... Read more →

Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 2

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous May release Inspiration Blog Hops … Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! As you hop through the blogs listed below, 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 Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hops. Our first featured stamp set today is Simple Flowers by Tami Mayberry: Inspired by Melanie's "All 8 colors" card here, I used all 8 new Color Companion ink pad colors, plus existing Ocean Mist AND almost all of the stamps in this sweet set on this card! These are the ink colors in order from the top left: Turquoise Sea, Passionate Pink, Grass Green, Sweet Mango with Sweet Corn on each side, Blue Raspberry below the Sweet Mango, then Bubblegum and the Ocean Mist. All were stamped onto Gina’s Ivory Heavy Base Weight Cardstock. The fantastic zig-zag stitches and hello sentiment from this set were both stamped... Read more →

Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 1

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous May release Inspiration Blog Hops … Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! As you hop through the blogs listed below, 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 Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hops. If you have saw Gina's previews last week or were at the Release Party last Thursday night, you may have seen mention of these fabulous new products: 8 pretty new Color Companion ink pads: Left side: Bubblegum, Passionate Pink, Sweet Mango, Blue Raspberry; Right side: Sweet Corn, Grass Green, Turquoise Sea, Black And 4 fabulous new Color Companion Button Collections: Left to right: Pink Passion, Sunrise Smoothie, Berry Blues, Tuxedo Mix Aren't those gorgeous?!! On with our stamp set introductions for today . . . Our featured stamp sets today are Pretty Patterns 2 by Melanie Muenchinger: and Bold Blooms by Becky Oehlers: For my first project,... Read more →

JustRite May '13 Release

Today is the first day of JustRite's May release inspiration blog hops. The first new stamp set we have to show you is this floral beauty -- Irises Vintage Labels Four: I used it to make this 6" x 5" Mother's Day card: I used JustRite's coordinating Custom Vintage Labels Four Dies to cut the image, after stamping it with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Neenah Natural White cardstock. These are the Copic Sketch Markers and Atyou Spica Glitter Pens I used to color the image: I found Spellbinders' Labels 28 to be a nice complimentary die shape to the stamp image, so I die cut two coordinating patterns of My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart-Be Amazing 6x6 papers to layer on Copic Foam Tape behind the Iris. To help accentuate the die cut shapes, I used Copic YR23 and BG53 to outline the embossed edges of the patterned papers: I stamped one of the sentiments, "Mom", onto the lower right corner of the card front and added a punched butterfly accent. You can see more samples of this beautiful stamp set today from these JustRite designers: JustRite Inspiration Debbie Olson Kathy Jones Marisa Job Sharon Harnist <=You are here!... Read more →