I have a bunch of velvet paper scraps left over from my SEI Cardmaking Kit days, and I never seem to find a good use for it. The stuff I make is usually embossed or die cut or stamped or quilled, and pretty geometric for the most part. I feel like the velvet is a…
This is a card I made for my grandmother earlier this year. I know what you’re thinking… the sky is technically inside the ‘house,’ but I felt like the flowers needed to be against the sky, not a living room. I’m going with artistic license on this one 🙂 Plus I really wanted to do…
One of the classes I took at the CKC convention was offered by s.e.i., and was all about creating shaker cards with little 1/8″ deep plastic bubbles like this: Sadly, their booth had run out of the windows very early in the day, so I spent some time hunting them down on the internet. You can…
I have had people ask me how I make my quilled watches. I’m a detail-oriented person, so I love to make tiny things. In fact, I feel much more comfortable with small projects than something that would take days or weeks to do. Maybe it’s me always being in a hurry, or perhaps having the attention span…
I thought I would try my hand at painting with ink. I love the Hero Arts Shadow Inks. They are kinda blotchy looking when you first stamp them, but trust me, once they dry, they smooth out REALLY nice. Today I used a little set of Memento Tear Drop inks and some water to make the…
This nifty idea for creating frames with masking was demonstrated in the card class I’m taking. I gotta say, this came out way cooler than I thought it would. For today’s project, I used two oval dies from Spellbinders to make the ‘frame’ for my sentiment. I cut a 5.5″x4.25″ square of masking paper and…