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Felt Stocking

Happy hump day! Is everyone ready for December? Our stockings are finally hung by the chimney with care and this one is filled with lots of goodies already! Isn't this Pink Ink Stamp Company Felt Stocking the sweetest?!! All of the fine details just amaze me and they really pop when gold heat embossed! (Click on any photo for a larger view. Bold products are linked below in the supply section). I stamped and gold heat embossed the stocking onto white pearl shimmering cardstock, then colored it with Copic markers R20-22-24, YG25-17, B21-23-24, E42-43, C0-1. Next, I hand trimmed the image. To create the background, I airbrushed Copic Y17 onto the center of an Inchie Arts 4-inch White Art Square. Then I gold heat embossed the adorable Heartfelt Holiday sentiment Time to get your sparkle on!! :) To finish this art piece, I adhered X-Press It's 6mm (1/4-inch) blue Glitter Deco Tape around the edges. I love all the pretty metallic sparkle this tape has, but yet it is thin (not bulky) and silky smooth . . . and the glitter doesn't rub or flake off! It is also repositionable, so if you make a mistake applying it, just lift... Read more →

Foiled Holidays

Are you in full Christmas decorating mode like I have been the past few weeks? I always love getting out the ornaments and fondly remembering holidays past with each one of them! That was my inspiration for this card: (Click on any photo for a larger view. Bold products are linked below in the supply section). These beautiful Ornamental stamps and coordinating dies are from Taylored Expressions. I stamped and heat embossed them with a combination of two silver (left and right) and one gold embossed ornament (center). The ornaments were stamped onto pretty pearl shimmer cardstock, then colored with these Copic markers: Gold and Silver Atyou Spica Glitter pens were used to color each of the ornament caps and some of the stripes. The pretty Spica glitter is a nice compliment to the metallic embossing powders and give a wonderful sparkle. For the ornament "strings" I used some pretty new X-Press It Foil Deco Tapes (gold and silver) out of this 10-pack of beautiful colors (the unique reusable packaging allows the tape to be stored neatly on the card and is easily accessed from the top tab): The tapes are 1/4-inch (6mm) wide but I wanted thinner pieces to... Read more →

Peace-Love-Joy and Black Friday Deals!

Please join me today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom for a little Black Friday inspiration art, then hit Ellen's store to take advantage of these fabulous deals! EARLY BIRD SAVINGS: Shop early for best selection - the early bird does get the worm! For nine (9) hours beginning at 12:00am Friday, November 25th Pacific Standard Time, running through 9:00am PST, save 20% on every item currently in stock! At checkout please enter the following one time use coupon code to redeem your discount: early2016 ANNIVERSARY SAVINGS: If you are not an early bird, you can enjoy savings of 15% on all in stock items any time over the weekend - Friday, November 25th through Monday November 28th at midnight PST. You can use this code as many times as you like but we will not be able to combine orders. At checkout please enter the following coupon code to redeem your discount: anniv2016 CYBER MONDAY SAVINGS: Didn't finish your shopping? You have one more chance to get great deals on remaining inventory while shopping in your pj's. Enjoy savings of 20% on any remaining in stock items on Monday, November 28th beginning at 12:00am running through 11:59pm PST. At... Read more →

Pastel Merry Christmas

I know you don't want to hear this, but it's only 43 more days until Christmas! So to help get your holiday card making geared up, I have a pretty pastel easy-peasy Christmas card for you today, using stamps, dies, ink and cardstock all from Taylored Expressions: For all the details on how to create this, please join me over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom today. And don't forget, all Taylored Expressions products are 15% off at Ellen Hutson LLC until the end of tomorrow, Saturday, November 12. You can shop all TE products at Ellen Hutson HERE . . . Happy weekend! Read more →

Inchie Arts Little Village Kits

Hello, Friends ... Today I'm joining up with Inchie Arts and Ellen Hutson for a fun week-long product feature! Inchie Arts has developed some new kits for making city and neighborhood scenes called Little Villages (so far, there are two kits!). The kits were designed for unlimited scenic possibilities! Here, I've created a snowy night-time Christmas village scene: (Click on any photo for a larger view. Bold products are linked below in the supply section). The kits are die cut matboard pieces made out of the same sturdy archival white matboard used for Inchie Arts' signature Art Squares. Today I used the Little Village 2 kit (there is also a Little Village 1 kit). Below are all of the Little Village 2 pieces punched out of the 3-1/2" x 5" matboard piece from which they are die cut (the pieces come still attached in the matboard rectangle, but punch out cleanly and easily): Both kits come with an ATC (2.5"x 3.5") Art Square base, but I decided to use a little larger white 4" Art Square to create this holiday home decor piece. Since this is a holiday piece, I wanted a lot of shimmer, so I dug out some... Read more →