White Dogwood Inspiration

The Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge this week provided Maggie Austin Cake as our site of inspiration.  What a fantastic artist this lady is.  I was inspired by the gorgeous all white cake in the photo shown below.    I have really been enjoying with all white projects lately and am surprised by how beautifully elegant they …

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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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Beach Scene Tutorial

Good Saturday morning!  I had a great time working in the Rubbernecker booth at the Orlando Stampfest a couple of weeks ago and demonstrating how this beach scene tutorial using my Kittie Kits Beach Master.  So many people responded that they couldn’t believe how easy it was to create the scene  using  blending tools and …

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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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