December 21, 2018

*Video Nuvo Shimmer Powder Backgrounds: Tonic Studios

Today I have two cards to share using the Tonic Studios Nuvo Shimmer Powders, which are amazing pigmented sparkly powders! These cards were created with just TWO powders…… The first one is combing two powders on a background!!! Check out the results:

The second one is just watercoloring in a traditional way, but I couldn’t resist blending the powder out a bit by spritzing the entire panel with water to get all that pigment moving.

I’ve got a video for you all so you can see these powders in action! You can watch the video by clicking HERE. Don’t forget to ring that little notification bell! I’m also trying out a ton of different Nuvo Adhesives!

What do you think?????? Thanks so much for stopping by!

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December 19, 2018

Happy New Year

If you are like me, you might need some last minute cards to whip up! I was thrilled with the goodies in the December Box and went to town creating this clean and simple card! First up, let’s talk about that stencil! It’s fantastic. From big to small fireworks, you can really create a lot of fun and unique backgrounds! I chose to use the big firework image and paired it with some expanding mousse from Tonic! I simply used a stickie note and masked off the areas around the large firework and spread the expanding mousse right thru the stencil. Adding a hot heat gun to the expanding mousse makes it puff up!!! It’s pretty amazing. Video soon!

The mirror cardstock included in the box is fabulous! I die cut the festive sentiment die from the December box with the mirror cardstock and that really tied everything together! What’s a party without a top hat I say!!! 🙂 Popped that up with some foam dimension!

The December Box is super fun for those New Year celebration cards, or just celebration in general!!! Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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October 18, 2018

Funny Gingerbread Girl – Oh Snap

HAHA! Take a chunk out of that gingerbread girl why don’t you! A very quick and easy card today showing you how you can use a single image to create a cute card! The alcohol Ink background was part of a slew of backgrounds I created ions ago! I save all my backgrounds for times just like this.

The sentiment is hilarious and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to take a bite out of her head (that’s weird isn’t it, lol)…….

Super quick post for a super quick card! Have an awesome Thursday!

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October 8, 2018

Textured Christmas Shopping Card

A very textured and very detailed Christmas card, my first Christmas card of the season. Also, I have a video series coming up, but more on that in a minute. Ellen Hutson just had their latest release and I combined several stamp sets and dies into one card… This is probably one of the most detailed cards I have ever done, lol…. So a very special recipient will get this baby.

The Snowfall die backdrop is a gorgeous die, great for winter backgrounds but also stars- so It can be used year round! I paired that die with the Winter Window die. Again, another versatile die that can be used year round. I finished out the rest of the design using images from the Holiday Shopper stamp set and coordinating die. Of course, I had to add a cup of coffee from the Bookworm Lady die set. All of the images and backgrounds were colored with the Altenew Watercolor Pan set! I added some finishing touches with stickles and other things (everything linked below in the supply list)….

So I have gone completely crazy because the 25 days of Christmas video series is coming your way on November 1st. 1 video a day for 25 days. Each day will feature a technique of some sort and hopefully doing it in November will give you ideas for your own Christmas cards! If you would like to see something specific, be sure to drop me a comment or email me.

I hope you will join me for this series! Are you a video subscriber? I hope so. If not, please click HERE to subscribe and be sure to click on that little notification bell to be notified every time I post a video.

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September 22, 2018

Get to know Art Impressions Blog Hop: Trifold Christmas Card

How fun is this three paneled card!!!! The Christmas Art Impressions Tryfold card made whipping this up a breeze! The stamps, dies (with directions) come as a set for a very inexpensive price! My little scene here shows “Santa’s Workshop”/”North Pole” sign, snowy cottage with Christmas tree, and Santa waving in the snow! All you need is one piece of cardstock, The Christmas AI set and your coloring medium of choice. My 5 year old is really going to like this card! Here’s a look of it in action:

And here is the final layer revealed where I can write my message! I did heat emboss the images with Raven embossing powder (the only black embossing powder I’ll use) before watercoloring on watercolored cardstock. And its flat so it will run thru the mail easily with no extra postage!

My other card features a season I can’t wait to arrive because I am hot! LOL. The Autumn Windows AI stamp set is so fun to color! For both of my cards, I used the Altenew 36 pan set watercolors, but you could use any kind of coloring medium you want. You can also stamp this out and give it to your kids classrooms to color for cards to send to their families.