PaperFections

Sprinkled With Fun

Today over in the CLASSroom I have this fun card to share, which uses an ENTIRE stamp set for the background! Please come visit me there, for all the details! PLUS, Stamps are on sale this week at Ellen Hutson LLC. What?!! YES!! Click the graphic below to shop the best selection of in-stock stamps, while they are still available! The sale continues through this Sunday at 11:59pm Pacific. Happy Friday! Read more →

Foxy Fall Hello

Happy Friday! Today I have this fun Fall card over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom. I hope you'll join me there to see how I made a new baby/shower stamp set into a fall themed beautiful background! Are the leaves in full color yet in your part of the country? Here in south Texas they are just starting to change color a little and starting to fall. Happy Autumn! Read more →

Watercolor Rose Background

Happy Friday, friends! Today I have a bold and bright watercolor background to share with you over on Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom blog. I hope you'll join me there for all the details! It's homecoming weekend here already, so we're ready for high school Friday night football! What will you be doing? Read more →

Thanks in my Heart

Happy Friday, friends! Today I have another fun-to-create beautiful background card to share with you, using some fabulous new stamps and dies from Concord & 9th: (Click on any photo for a larger view. Bold products are linked below in the supply section). To create this background, I used my favorite new'ish toy, Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor set. I've had the small 12-set of these professional watercolors for a while ... I wanted to test them out to see how I liked them. Well, to say I loved them is a huge understatement, so this sweet 36-set showed up at my door this week! I've also been enjoying creating stamped watercolor a lot lately, so I thought I would see if it could be done with these watercolors. Test results are in . . . it works great! Using a waterbrush, I used only a small amount of water to pick up some color from the dark pink color "cake" in the palette. Then I painted it onto the heart from Concord & 9th's Give Thanks stamp set, and stamped onto watercolor paper. If you are not pleased with the results, just add a little more water to the stamped... Read more →

Stitched Bird with Copic Bubble Background

Hello and welcome ... Today I have a fun background technique to share with you, adding to my Beautiful Background series! To create this easy bubble background, I used an Aristo Circle Template and Aristo Finelead Studio 0.5 mechanical pencil to lightly trace overlapping circles onto a 4.25" x 5.50" X-Press It Blending Card panel. This template features 45 different circles, ranging from 1 to 36mm and is transparent so it's easy to see through and plan out circle placement. And while linking this, I just noticed that ALL Aristo products are currently 50% off in the Aristo Store at the Imagination International website! Next, I used the Aristo Click Eraser to erase any overlapping lines I didn't want. This eraser's ergonomic shape features push-button technology to advance the refillable eraser. It is the nice soft and non-abrasive white eraser which is less likely to smear surrounding areas or damage your paper. I like how small this eraser is, allowing it to be very precise and work easily in tight spaces. Then I used some of my favorite color combos of Copic Sketch markers pictured above to color and shade the circles. Once colored, I used the Click Eraser again... Read more →

Hello Envelope

Hello and happy weekend! Today I have this sweet stitched envelope Hello thank you card over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom -- I hope you'll join me there for all the details! Read more →

Beautiful Backgrounds 8-Stenciled Watercolor

Today in the CLASSroom I have a tutorial for another in my Beautiful Background series. This one is watercolor through a stencil created with a cover die ... I hope you'll join me there for all the details! For future reference, you can find a photo album in my right sidebar which contains all of the projects in my Beautiful Background series, with links to the tutorials over in the CLASSroom ... I hope that helps! Read more →