Christmas In July

Hello everyone!  Happy Saturday morning. Today I am celebrating Christmas in July. I usually start in mid summer making Christmas cards and I couldn’t resist turning to one of the sweet Sarah Kay Christmas images by Stampavie called Noel Joy. I stamped the image on watercolor paper, painted with reinkers and cut out.  I created …

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Beach Scene Tutorial

  Supplies: Watercolor paper, acrylic blocks, stamp images, sponge or ink blending tool, cloud template,scrap paper for mask,  inks: light and medium brown, light aqua blue, dark green, black Note: I used Distress Inks-Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Tumbled Glass, Forest Moss, and Black Soot.  Cloud template is made with cardstock cut by hand using scalloped …

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Nosegay and Doily

The Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It Challenge this week was to make a card using some kind of doily.  I have some dies that may have passed for a doily but decided to go straight to my kitchen and pull out a plain old kitchen type of doily that I use when making holiday fudge …

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Colorful Butterflies

The Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge this week was a doozy!  Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry and Tangerine Tango. Yikes!!! I decided to try using pops of color butterflies on an all white card background since I already had the punched white flowers and foliage on my desk from yesterday.  I like how it turned out.  I will …

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Frame Tutorial

Happy July Fourth! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday weekend.  I sure have enjoyed being off work an extra day. I have been asked many, many times if I would do a tutorial on how I create my double matted frames. I decided to do one while I had an extra couple of …

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