Inspired by Bev “TexasGrammy”

The Splitcoaststampers Free For All challenge this week was to pick a card from the gallery of one of our SCS friend’s that inspires us and use elements of it to create a project of our own. I went straight to the gallery of my friend, Bev Gerard, better known on SCS as TexasGrammy and …

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Vellum Cornflowers

Splitcoaststampers Ways To Use It challenge this week was to use vellum on our project.  I decided to try my hand at making a floral spray with vellum flowers.  I made the flowers using the Martha Stewart Cornflower and Hydrangea punches. I thought I would show a couple pictures to show how I put these …

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Challenging Colors

The Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge this week was to use chocolate chip, olive and vanilla.  I created my card using the brown as the most dominate color and created my flowers and foliage in the vanilla and green.  In truth, I created my whole project and had forgotten to include olive at all.  Ugh.  I was …

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Another Watercolor Garden Pot

I tried my hand at another watercolor garden pot using the Art Impressions technique that I learned over the weekend by watching their tutorials.  I created this project for the Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple sketch challenge and blocks were part of the layout.  I stamped the pot  and used a damp brush to pull the …

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Watercolor Garden Pot

Happy Monday!  I had a great time over the weekend watching some of the Art Impressions watercolor tutorials.  They are so gorgeous and easy to follow. As I watched the videos I kept wishing I had all the images that were being used. Then I slapped myself on the forehead.  Duh!  You have everything you …

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