Holiday Wrap

                                                                          This is the project that I did for our monthly Dirty Dozen/Dirty Dozen Alumni Challenge.  Jami  gave us a wonderful theme to work with along with a couple of interesting requirements and restrictions. Challenge Focus: A Christmas/Hanukkah/Winter Card inspired by a childhood holiday memory or favorite thing about the season. Tell us about the memory or inspiration …

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Skating Fun and Falls

                                                                                                                                I think this little skater is so adorable.  She is from the Rubbernecker North Pole Collection -When at First You Don't Succeed.  I stamped the snowman and little girl on scrap watercolor paper, painted and cut out and set aside.  I stamped the trees with Olive Green Stazon and then did a water wash over …

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Holiday Sorrow

One of my good work friends lost her fiance this week in a motorcycle accident.  It is such a heartbreak.  Our administration asked me to make a card for all of us to sign. I knew the card needed to be large enough to hold all of our signatures so I decided on a 8.5" x 5.5" card. I scratched my head trying to …

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Homemade With Love Gifts

Would you like to see what this tag is attached to?  I would love for you to check out my first tutorial  as an artistic designer for Stamper's Quest Magazine. I have written a step by step tutorial on how I created a fun and easy container to give with homemade goodies.                                                           

Out of the Box Colors for Holiday Cards

Today's Rubbernecker Stamps Blogger Challenge is being hosted by Shelly and it is a great one.  So many of us feel there are only a hand full of colors to use for our holiday cards. We usually use some shade of red and green, white, gold and silver. Shelly's challenge for us is to make a holiday card using non …

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