A COUPLE OF MORE VALENTINES
Was playing around with another Altenew layering stamp today and decided to make it into a Valentine.  I'm also going to add into the All About Layering (class I took a few weeks ago) student gallery. I first dry embossed a heart die onto the white backgrou...

WATERCOLOR & SALT
The other day Betsy Veldman did post about using colored salt with watercolors to create a background.  I had tried just salt before but never colored and it intrigued me and so had a go.  Used some copic ink refills to color some coarse salt in blues and g...

BE MY VALENTINE
Just a quick post today - trying to get some valentines done since I wasn't able to send out Christmas cards this year.  Didn't really have a plan when I made the background - just that I had never used the stitched heart die - so randomly die cut and then ...

ALL ABOUT LAYERING
Have been taking the Altenew class " All About Layering 3 " all this past week and finally managed to get a couple of cards for homework accomplished!  This is a great class and Lydia not only has a video on layering the actual stamps, but also then creatin...

PINK BOKEH
The January challenge at CAS Mix-Up is to use the bokeh technique - check out the above link for more info and ideas for using this fun technique. I have had the Concord & 9th notecards (on sale now at a fantastic price) in my stash for awhile and used one ...

FUSION BUTTERFLY
The Fusion Challenge features butterflies this time and I haven't done a butterfly card in ages! When I took out my PTI Life is Beautiful stamps there was a butterfly already die cut that I had smooshed in some bright pink watercolors.  So I took my copics ...

STENCILING + SPONGING
CAS Stencil is a new challenge that just began this January and had go at it with these cards. I used Altenew's Sketchy Floral stamp and the coordinating Floral Drape stencil for both cards.  The stamp and stencil are very large and I was able to get two ca...

SNOWFLAKES
One of my goals for this year is to enter more challenges and today I have a card that fits into several. My card is also quite appropriate for today here in Lincoln as we had our first snowstorm of 2019 with about 6" of snow.  Good reason to stay inside an...

MASCULINE BIRTHDAY CARD
Needed a guy birthday card and this deer and the birch trees fit the bill pretty well. Quite fast and easy and really liked the idea of all the "whiteness". Dotty Jo has started a new Christmas challenge and the current theme is "Rudolph and Friends" and Ha...