PaperFections

Celebrating Spring!

Happy weekend to you all! It's been a gorgeous one here, making me definitely ready for Spring so I thought this adorable new Pink Ink Flower Delivery bike would be a great choice to work with today! (Bold products are linked below in the supply section): The bike was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Neenah Solar White cardstock and then colored with these Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pens from Imagination International Inc: I used these glitter pens 7 from Set A to color the image: Lavender, Pink, Orange, Lemon, Melon, Turquoise, and Silver. I used these 6 glitter pens from Set B: Pitch Black, Blossom, Peach, Lilac, Mint, and Baby Blue. The small tips on the pens make it easy to color the small images in this stamp, and the beautiful translucent glittery color adds gorgeous sparkle! Hopefully you can see the pretty shimmer in this close-up: I adore all the fine details in these basket of flowers and cute bike! To finish the card, I added shadows under the bike wheels with Copic C0 and C1, then added the 4" x 5.25" panel with Copic Foam Tape to a white top-folded notecard with a Bazzill Candy Necklace... Read more →

February 2016 Calendar

I hope you all enjoyed my January calendar … I am loving making them again, so I hope you don’t mind another? :) Keep in mind – if calendars are just not your thing, you can also use the same elements and general layout to create a Valentine’s Day or February birthday card. Or use the layout for a scrapbook page, substituting the calendar for your photo(s)! You can find all the details about this calendar today over on the Taylored Expressions blog. I hope the end to your January is going well! Read more →

Inchie Arts-Stencil Girl Blog Hop!

Hello everyone and welcome to the StencilGirl and Inchie Arts blog hop! I'm excited to be joining my fellow Inchie Arts design team in a hop with the StencilGirl crew! What a fun combination of products in the hands of amazing artists ... It's like the two products were meant for each other! There are SO MANY ways to use StencilGirl stencils: with paints, sprays, textured mediums, markers, tracing, pastels, inks, Gelli Plate, etc. And because Art Squares are made from a museum quality, 4 ply, archival, acid/lignin free, absorbent, matte board material, they can stand up to all kinds of layers of StencilGirl color and texture! I put together this 9x12 mixed media canvas (all bold products are linked below in the supply section): I used these awesome StencilGirl stencils: Tropical Floral, Starfish, Seashells, and Seahorses. They really called my name, since I have an affinity for anything tropical or associated with the sea, and StencilGirl has a wonderful variety of stencils! I also used three different shapes and sizes of Inchie Arts Art Squares: Swatch (2" x 4"), Twinchie (2"), and 3". Here's how it came together: I airbrushed the background of my canvas with these Copic markers:... Read more →

Love You Roses

With Valentine’s Day less than a month away, love is in the air! I know I was definitely in love at first sight with the latest in Taylored Expressions’ Simply Stamped series – Roses, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this gorgeous stamp and coordinating die set! I hope you'll join me today over on the Taylored Expressions blog for all the details on how to create this card! And good news for you . . . Taylored Expressions is GIVING AWAY a Simply Stamped-Roses stamp set and their fabulous multi-colored pack of envelopes like I used in this project, to one lucky commenter! So head over to this blog post at the Taylored Expressions blog and leave a comment, for your chance to win! Read more →

Happy {Heart} Day!

Happy Friday, everyone! Today I am over in the CLASSroom, showing you how to make this sweet tri-fold Valentine card from a Happy Birthday die, stretching the versatility of your dies . . . I hope you'll join me there for all the details! Read more →

Die Cut Love

I adore dies ... they make any papercrafting project a quick and easy process! I hope you'll join me today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom for my first project of 2016 -- this sweet Valentine made entirely from die cuts, using some great tips! XOXO, Read more →