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April 2016 Calendar

Hello friends -- I hope your March has been fabulous so far! Today I am getting ready for Spring weather and have my April calendar to share. Have Spring rains already hit your part of the country? This sweet Taylored Expressions Calendar Critters piggy is ready for her rainy weather! You can find all the details on how this calendar was created today over on the Taylored Expressions blog ... I hope you'll join me there! Read more →

Partial Die Cut Border

Today I have a fun partial die cut border technique to share with you, using Essentials by Ellen stamps and dies. I hope you will join me over in the CLASSroom to find out how to make this unique, fun card! Happy weekend! Read more →

Welcome Spring!

It is Spring Break in my part of the country and the weather has definitely been beautiful, with trees and flowers budding out everywhere, and birds singing in the trees! These things were my inspiration for today’s card ... I hope you will join me today over on the Taylored Expressions blog for all the details on how to create it! Read more →

March My Monthly Hero Arts Kit!

Hello, friends! I am so very excited to be participating in a fabulous collaboration between Hero Arts and Copic's North American Product Director, Marianne Walker, to bring you the March 2016 My Monthly Hero Kit!! This kit was based on Marianne's Coloring Flowers with Copic Markers book, and now you can have a pile of flowers to color, using the techniques you learn from the book! This is everything you will receive in the kit: The KIT consists of: 4 x 6 stamp set featuring Marianne's flower drawings pulled from coloring cards Set of 8 coordinating dies Intense Black ink cube, alcohol-marker-friendly Package of gems Assorted notecards 12 printed coloring cards on quarter sheet X-Press It paper, drawn by Marianne 4 blank quarter sheets of X-Press It paper for stamping Kit backer card that can be colored Additional items for sale, sold separately from the kit: PS755 Coloring Foundation Book - Flowers: Instructional book, written by Marianne. Flowers in the book are similar to the add-on stamp set. Books will be autographed! Retail $9.95 CL964 Marianne's Flowers: 4x6 clear stamp set of Marianne's flower drawings that correspond with book. Retail $15.99 DC184 Ribbon Messages Stamp & Cut: Label dies and... Read more →

Easter Bouquet Window Card

Happy March, crafters! Today I'm sharing a happy Easter bouquet window card made with Essentials by Ellen Diagonal Window (brilliant idea!) die and gorgeous Wild Garden and Bold Blossom dies over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom. I hope you'll join me there for all the details of this fun card! Read more →

March New Beginnings & Copic Opaque White 4 Ways!

Happy March, everyone! Today I am sharing a Spring home decor project with you, using some of Pink Ink Stamp Company's latest stamp release! This photo holder/stand was a gift from a dear friend nine years ago, shortly after we moved into our last house. I thought it was only fitting to spruce it up a bit, since we will be moving into a new home in one short month ... thus, the great "New Beginnings" sentiment! So I made a watercolor background on a 4" x 6" piece of watercolor paper using Tumbled Glass Distress Reinker: Once the background was dry, Copic Opaque White was used to paint the clouds -- I thinned it with a bit of water and painted it on the watercolored background with a brush: Next, I stamped Pink Ink's Row of Bulbs and New Beginnings sentiment with Versamark Ink onto an Inchie Arts 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" ATC Art Board and gold heat embossed it. I always love how nice and crisp Pink Ink's red rubber stamp images stamp and emboss -- such pretty fine details! And the Art Board stands up to the heat embossing, Copic coloring AND the Opaque White being heavily painted... Read more →