AF 2017 Guest: Jessica Frost-Ballas: Bronze

I have to admit I don't think about using metallics that much in my daily stamping.  However, I do love the look of it.  I should use it more often. I used Danielle Flander's beautiful card for inspiration.  You can see it here.  I had some gorgeous pre-embossed paper in my stash which I used for my card base. I brush some watermark...

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SAF 2017 Guest: Stephanie Gold: Cotton

I absolutely loved how Stephanie turned that cotton ball into cotton candy.  However, I mail most of my cards and didn't want to have to send a card like that in a box.  I decided to turn my cotton balls into clouds. I scribbled a little bit of a light blue Clean Color Real Brush Maker on the cotton ball and then spritzed it with water. ...

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SAF 2017 Guest: Rebecca Luminarias: Paper

Rebecca did a splendid job showing us how to turn simple paper that we use everyday in our card making into fabulous embellishments.  I decided to select another of the take 10 inspiration photos for my card.  I choose this one: This was definitely outside my comfort level but I just loved the pop of yellow with all the gray/green colors. ...

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Papertrey Ink SAF 2017: Take Ten Warm Up Challenge

It's time once again for Papertrey Ink's annual Stamp-a-Faire challenge. I have been participating in these challenge for several years now and was very exicted to continue the tradition. The first challenge  is called Take Ten because you had to: Select one of the TEN inspiration photos/color schemes from below. Take TEN to sketch your card...

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Papertrey Ink packaging challenge

Rebecca Luminarias has a wonderful feature on the papertrey ink blog.  She shares with us how she decorates her packages.  She truly is an expert.  She adds soo much texture making a package that is a gift itself.  I decided to make a tag to add to an Easter basket.  I was inspired by her the pretty peach, gold and pink colors. Originally...

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Papertrey Ink March 2017 release day 3 challenge

It's finally time for Papertrey ink's March release. The release was postponed due the overwhelming response to the January sale.  I can't believe it's finally here.  Not only are tons of new great projects being released but also there are lots of challenges going on. I'm cutting it down to the wire here.  It's dark and I apologize...

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Papertrey Ink Feb 2017 blog hop challenge

It's time again for the Papertrey Ink monthly blog hop. Once again Nicole picked such a gorgeous and inspiring photo.  I didn't have a lot of time to make a card and really wanted to preserve the elegance of the photo.  I definitely struggled with this.  I decided to try some foiling.  I got the supplies to do so for Christmas...

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Papertrey Ink is Celebrating 10 years Part 2!

As I mentioned in my previous post PTI is celebrating 10 years in business by having several challenges.  I have listed some of the cards I made for these challenges in my previous post in case you missed it.  I will now do the rest in this post. 2010: I actually was kindly given the hand stamp along with the die from Love Lives Here.   ...

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Papertrey Ink Celebrating 10 years!

My absolute favorite stamping company is Papertrey Ink.  I buy 95% off my supplies off of them.  This Feb PTI celebrates 10 years in business!  To celebrate PTI has been posting challenges every day since Feb 10th.  They are celebrating the past, present, and future.  Every day they have posted a year starting with 2007 up...

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Make it Monday 275: Stamped Dangles

This week's Make it Monday challenge over at Papertrey Ink involves stamping dangles.  Amy shows exactly how to do the dangles in a great video HERE. I actually really enjoyed this technique.  It is so wonderfully whimsical!  It's totally unlike my usual style.  They key here is to just stamp and not worry about lining things...

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