Another favorite is going away! The Beautiful Wings Stamp Set is retiring on 30 June 2018 and it’s on sale! Sale Price: $11.87 – down from $16.95. Buy Now This card is for my lovely daughter, Stephanie, who is celebrating a milestone and who also loves butterflies! I used the baby wipe technique and used the colors, Lovely Blue and Pretty Amethyst Liquid colors. Since this stamp set is a… Read More »
Day 3 of coloring with the Journey Color Splash Watercolor Pencils. I am absolutely having so much fun coloring with our pencils. I tried it after looking at Shannon Smith’s video on coloring with watercolor pencils. It’s where you brush the color from the pencil onto a acrylic block and then transfer it to the image. It is blends so smoothly! I used the Tea Time Stamp Set Bundle for… Read More »
This probably one of the most popular stamp sets from Fun Stampers Journey and it was one of the first one I purchased when I joined FSJ last year. The set is called Dear Rose. The image was stamped with the Pretty Pansy Ink onto the Butter Cream panel. The leaves were stamped with Green Olive Ink. You can faintly see it but I scored a line around the card… Read More »
One of my favorite kind of card is the vintage flowery card. I love it when I can add lace or bows or any antique looking items such has hat pins – I love hat pins. I lightly sponged the background panel with the pink and yellow in the Confectionary Days Panpastels. I then inked up the poppy from the Poppy Days Stamp Set and stamped with Bubble Gum Ink. … Read More »
I’m running a contest where you guess which stamp sets are retiring from the 2017-2018 Fun Stampers Journey annual catalog. You don’t have to guess all of them because the winner will be the one with the most accurate guesses! See details here Today’s card features the Summer Rose stamp set. I not only used it as a focal point but also as the background. The rose images in the… Read More »
Yes the Dogwoods have started blooming and they are so pretty. We have a lot of them in the woods around us. I started working on this card last year and put it aside. In cleaning my craft room this month, I found it and finished it. It’s a digital file (can’t remember where I got it). I printed it out on Oatmeal Cookie and then colored it using the… Read More »
It is so hard to make a card for a grandson who is turning 20. I didn’t want something to juvenile for him nor too adult so I went with the Star-Dom Dies. The background is the ink pad to paper technique and I used the Catalina Splash and Pineapple Smoothie Ink Pads for this. I also used the Sparkle Silk and Catalina Splash Reinker (with a Blending Brush) to… Read More »
Today’s card features a vintage/shabby chic birthday card for my lovely daughter, Deena, who lives in California. The main focal point of the card is the Vintage Burst Accesories Collection. I love the vintage feel of the accessories. The background was embossed using the Love Letter Embossing Folder (Bloom Benefit with a $100 purchase). For the next layer, I used the Vintage Notes Background Stamp. I tore the top and… Read More »
Today’s card features the adorable Magical Unicorn Stamp Set Bundle. Since joining FSJ, I am loving their whimsical stamp sets. They are just too cute! The unicorn was colored in using the Cool Pool Color Splash and a spritz of water. The main and tail were colored in using Bubble Gum Reinker and Pretty Amethyst Reinker. Blend in using the Fusion Blender before applying to the mane and tail with… Read More »
Since my granddaughter, Rachel, is taking ballerina lessons I thought I would make her a card using the Dance Life Stamp Set. It is one of my favorite stamp sets because it is so simple and elegant! The download listed below includes the instructions on how to make this card. The modeling paste was fun to use – I felt like I was in school! The only part… Read More »
